The Jane Austen writers' club
Subtitle: inspiration and advice from the world's best-loved novelist
By: Rebecca Smith ; illustrations by Sarah J Coleman
Contributors: Coleman, Sarah (Sarah Jane), illustrator
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781632865885
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Influence; Authorship; Creative writing
Description: "Pretty much anything anyone needs to know about writing can be learned from Jane Austen. While creative writing manuals tend to use examples from twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers, The Jane Austen Writers' Club is the first to look at the methods and devices used by the world's most beloved novelist. Austen was a creator of immortal characters and a pioneer in her use of language and point of view; her advice continues to be relevant two centuries after her death.  Here Rebecca Smith examines the major aspects of writing fiction--plotting, characterization, openings and endings, dialogue, settings, and writing methods--sharing the advice Austen gave in letters to her aspiring novelist nieces and nephew, and providing many and varied exercises for writers to try, using examples from Austen's work,"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Cover title.

Includes bibliographical references (page 325-328) and index.
Table of contents: title: Plan of a novel; title: 'Intricate characters are the most amusing'; title: Building the village of your story; title: A fine pair of eyes; title: Light, bright and sparkling; title: Secrets and suspense; title: In Jane Austen's pocket; title: 'And what is fifty miles of good road?'; title: 'You know how interesting the purchase of a sponge-cake is to me'; title: Joints of mutton and doses of rhubarb.