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Writing short stories / Ailsa Cox.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cox, Ailsa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short story--Authorship.
- Short story.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 197 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
- Contents:
- 1 Spinning a yarn 9
- Telling tales 9
- Plot 11
- Creating suspense: 'The Fall of the House of Usher' 12
- Tall tales 15
- Games and puzzles: 'The Red-Headed League' 18
- Structure 22
- Writing in the dark 24
- 2 Capturing the moment 33
- The mind's eye 33
- Using the senses: 'Bliss' 35
- Epiphany: 'The Dead' 40
- Playing around with time 43
- Stream of consciousness: 'Not Not While the Giro' 46
- 3 Humour 57
- Laughing out loud 57
- Irony 59
- Character observation 61
- The anecdote: 'News' 63
- Parody and satire: 'The Hands of Dingo Deery' 67
- 4 The fantastic 79
- Voluntary dreams 79
- Altering reality: 'Metamorphosis' 80
- Myth: 'The Company of Wolves' 85
- Parallel worlds: 'Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' 89
- 5 What if? 101
- SF 101
- The unknown: 'In the Abyss' 104
- Utopias and dystopias 108
- Cyberpunk: 'Burning Chrome' 111
- 6 Reality 125
- The heat of the moment 125
- The short story and journalism 129
- Social observation: 'Country Living' 133
- Memories: 'Family Furnishings' 137
- 7 Love, sex and shaping a story 147
- Sex, love and romance 147
- Desire: 'Death Constant Beyond Love' 149
- Adultery: 'Lady with Lapdog' 153
- Revenge: 'Dr Frankenstein, I Presume' 159
- Recognition 161.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-190) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415303869
- 0415303877
- OCLC:
- 57670414
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