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Novel ideas : contemporary authors share the creative process / Barbara Shoup, Margaret Love Denman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fiction--Authorship.
- Fiction.
- Novelists, American--20th century--Interviews.
- Novelists, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (343 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A substantial introduction to the elements of fiction followed by in-depth interviews with successful novelists who speak with candor and insight into the complex process by which a novel is made. This edition also includes writing exercises to enhance its use in the writing classroom.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Preface to the Second Edition""; ""Writing a Novel""; ""Introduction""; ""The Book in the Mind""; ""The Elements of Fiction""; ""Seeing It Through""; ""Revision""; ""The Interviews""; ""Dorothy Allison""; ""Larry Brown""; ""Peter Cameron""; ""Michael Chabon""; ""Michael Cunningham""; ""Robb Forman Dew""; ""Richard Ford""; ""Ha Jin""; ""Patricia Henley""; ""Charles Johnson""; ""Wally Lamb""; ""Valerie Martin""; ""Jill McCorkle""; ""Sena Jeter Naslund""; ""Lewis Nordan""; ""Sheri Reynolds""; ""S. J. Rozan""; ""Jane Smiley""; ""Lee Smith""; ""Theodore Weesner""
- ""Writing Exercises""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8203-4628-4
- OCLC:
- 868031742
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