Revising Fiction - A Handbook for Writers

David Madden

Barnes & Noble Books

2002

315 páginas

10h 30m

ISBN-13: 9780760731017

Revising Fiction provides 185 practical suggestions on how to improve your story or novel. Inside its pages, you'll discover

* The four stages of writing
* "Before" and "after" drafts from the fiction of Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and many others
* Specific examples and suggestions for every aspect of writing
* The technical questions every writer should ask when he or she revises
* A comprehensive checklist of problems — and how to work on them
* A complete short story that demonstrates over thirty key revision techniques available to any writer