From Fact to Fiction (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Ware, Edmund) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from From Fact to Fiction This book is a collaboration between a writer and a teacher of writing. Its plan developed in the seminar room, to which the teacher had invited the writer to talk to students about the composition of stories. For the subject of his talk, the writer chose one of his own stories, described its origin and development, explained the problems it posed and the devices he used to overcome them or to gain certain effects. Then he read the story aloud. In the concluding period of the seminar, the teacher discussed the wider generalities implied in the writers preface and in the story itself. The method may be likened to a sandwich - a story between two slices of comment. Students tell us that the method is good. We think, therefore, that the book may be helpful to people who wish to write professional fiction, and that it may offer teachers a fresh and effective means of presenting some of the techniques in the writing of short stories. We do not believe that emphasis on "formula," as such, is of much use to the beginning writer. On the other hand, we do strongly believe that learning to write stories, like learning any other highly skilled craft, requires close and painstaking attention to technique. The long quotation in Chapter III explains more fully our attitude toward the writing of magazine fiction. Great thoughts and delicate perceptions are not enough unless one learns to fashion something from them. The colloquial and discursive quality of the comments is a deliberate effect. Most of the chapters were spoken before they were written, and we have tried to keep something of the ease and good humor characteristic of informal discussion. There is no particular significance to the order of chapters; we suggest that the student read the book in its entirety before attempting to use it, chapter by chapter, as an aid in his own work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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