Immediate fiction : a complete writing course

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Year: 2002
• Leaves: 280
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Presents practical strategies, suggestions, and tips to help the beginning writer to better understand the writing process by covering such topics as managing time, finding an idea, and submitting work to agents and publishers.

Abstract:

Covering the entire process of writing, from manuscript preparation to marketing, Cleaver shows the novice how to start writing and how to get immediate results. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Rules of the Page --
Theory --
Story --
Fine-Tuning --
Use or Abuse --
Self-Editing --
The Active Ingredient --
Emotion --
Showing --
The Second Time Around --
Rewriting --
Method --
How To. How Not To --
Under the Sun --
Uniqueness. Universal Plots --
Point of View --
The Ticking Clock --
Fitting It In --
Dead Weight --
What You Can Ignore --
The Long and the Short of It --
From Short Story to Novel --
Hitting the Wall --
Blocking and Unblocking --
Stage and Screen --
To Market to Market --
When to Submit How and Why

✦ Subjects

Fiction -- Authorship