Immediate Fiction
Subtitle: A Complete Writing Course
By: [by] Jerry Cleaver
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: October 27, 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780312302764
Subjects: Rhetoric; Reference; Writing Skills; Reference / Writing Skills
First sentence: Creativity obeys an unusual and contrary set of laws.
Notes: Includes index.

Dedication:

"To Barney Sabath, the best mentor<br/>and dearest friend anyone could ever have."
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: ix; label: 1
title: Rules of the Page
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Theory
pagenum: 7; label: 3
title: Story
pagenum: 19; label: 4
title: Fine-Tuning
pagenum: 43; label: 5
title: Use or Abuse—Self-Editing
pagenum: 64; label: 6
title: The Active Ingredient— Emotion
pagenum: 72; label: 7
title: Showing
pagenum: 100; label: 8
title: The Second Time Around— Rewriting
pagenum: 110; label: 9
title: Method— How to. How Not To.
pagenum: 138; label: 10
title: Under the Sun— Uniqueness. Universal Plots.
pagenum: 146; label: 11
title: Point of View
pagenum: 152; label: 12
title: The Ticking Clock— Fitting It In
pagenum: 161; label: 13
title: Dead Weight— What You Can Ignore
pagenum: 186; label: 14
title: The Long or the Short of It— From Short Story to Novel
pagenum: 191; label: 15
title: Hitting the Wall— Blocking and Unblocking
pagenum: 211; label: 16
title: Stage and Screen
pagenum: 248; label: 17
title: To Market to Market— When to Submit, How and Why
pagenum: 260; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 273; title: Index
pagenum: 279