Building Fiction: How to Develop Plot and Structure

Kercheval, Jesse Lee

ISBN 10: 0299187241 / ISBN 13: 9780299187248

Published by University of Wisconsin Press, 2003

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0299187241I4N00

Synopsis:

Jesse Lee Kercheval builds a work of fiction just as an architect would design a house - with an eye for details and how all parts of a story interconnect. Even with the most dynamic language, images and characters, no piece of fiction will work without a strong infrastructure. Kercheval shows how to build that structure using such tools as point of view, characterization, pacing and flashbacks. ""Building Fiction"" is designed to help readers envision the landscape of their fiction and build great stories therein.

About the Author: Jesse Lee Kercheval is the Sally Meade Hands Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she directs the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and codirects the Program in Creative Writing. Her memoir, Space, won the Alex Award from the American Library Association. She is also the author of a novel, The Museum of Happiness; two collections of poems, Dog Angel and World as Dictionary; and a story collection, The Dogeater, which won the Associated Writing Programs Award in Short Fiction.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Building Fiction: How to Develop Plot and ...
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket