Writing Short Stories : a Writers' and Artists' Companion.
Teach at the world famous Arvon Foundation writing course and have distilled the essence of their course into this practical handbook with contributions from leading writers.
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2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part 1; The history of the shortstory; Further reading; Crime, tricks and tales:genre and the short story; The shorter end of shortstories â#x80;#x93; boundaries withpoetry; Further reading; Stories: those little slicesof life; Discovering short stories; Why write short stories?; Where do stories come from?; What is a short story?; Reflections on writing andon books on writing; Further reading; Reflections on the what, when, how, why and whereof it for me; When; Why; How; How Tania Hershman achieved her dream and gota book.
- How (2), what, when (2) and whereWhy (2): why do I write at all?; What do I write?; Further reading; Reflections on the evolutionof a short story; The evolution of a shortstory: â#x80;#x98;Under the Treeâ#x80;#x99;; First draft; Second draft; Third draft; Fourth draft; Permission and structure; Fifth draft; Sixth and seventh drafts and submission; Summing up; Further reading; Reflections: permissionand risk; Further reading; Part 2; On being brief; Whose epiphany?; On generosity; Voice; On short story endings; On short stories; Tension in fiction; On the life and afterlife of the short story.
- Short stories â#x80;#x93; â#x80;#x98;experimentalâ#x80;#x99; shortsOther countries; The experimental short story or experimentingwith the short story; On short stories; Setting; Lost stories; Katherine Mansfield; The short story; Judging the BBC National Short Story Award; Tips and tales; A paranoid vision; Absence; Part 3; Editing and revising; When to edit; The sifting stage; The writing; The revision funnel; Tenses; Step into a world â#x80;#x93;thoughts on structure; The story (real time); Plot (rearranged time); How do graphic novels use time?; When does structure work best?
- Character and plot â#x80;#x93; the basic components ofscenesWriterâ#x80;#x99;s tools; Building a scene; Structure and how to use it; Use of breaks in text; Sections; Examples of experimental structure; Further reading; What gets left outand minimalism; Traditional short stories; What readers already know; What readers donâ#x80;#x99;t need to know but you do; What readers need to know about in fantasticalstories; Pre-empt and explain; Show not tell; Minimalist short stories; Further reading; Speaking their minds â#x80;#x93;character and voice; What the character knows and feels; Empathy and respect for your characters.
- The components of charactersWriting flash fiction, liberation throughconstraint; Hint from Robert Shapard; Hint from David Gaffney; Definition from Tara Masih; Advantages of writing flash fiction; Effect of flash fiction on readers; Liberation through constraint; Exercises using constraints; Further reading; A brief history of time inthe short story; Flashbacks; Further reading; Another perspective â#x80;#x93; pointof view in the story; Key question 1; Key question 2; Choosing your view; Voice and dialogue, usingscenes; Why use dialogue?; Using a narrator; Experimenting andexperimental short stories.
- The meaning of â#x80;#x98;experimentâ#x80;#x99; and â#x80;#x98;experimentalâ#x80;#x99.