Vivid & continuous : essays and exercises for writing fiction / John McNally.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McNally, John, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--Authorship.

Fiction.

Authorship--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Authorship.

Creative writing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Creative writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Vivid and continuous

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Taking off from The Creative Writer's Survival Guide, John McNally'srelentlessly blunt, bracingly cheerful, and immensely helpful map to being a writer, Vivid and Continuousis an equally blunt, cheerful, and helpful map to learning to be a writer. While acknowledging that many fine books cover such essentials of fiction writing as point of view, characterization, and setting, McNally sets out in this new book-intended as a supplement to beginning fiction-writing classes or as the sole text for upper-level or graduate courses-to solve the tricky second-tier

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Writing; The Ideal Reader; Subject Matter; Beginnings; Titles; The Narrator's Likeability; Minor Characters; Immediacy; Pop Culture; Humor; Neighborhoods; The Imitative Fallacy; Subtext; Gestation; Humility; Further Reading; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-60938-157-2

OCLC:

824733600