Take Your Characters to Dinner

Creating the Illusion of Reality in Fiction (A Creative Writing Course)

Laurel A. Yourke (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2000
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-1694-2 (ISBN)

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"Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense." In Mark Twain's time, as in ours, we accept reality as plausible. In writing, however, readers must be coaxed into accepting plots and characters as real. Take Your Characters to Dinner: Creating the Illusion of Reality in Fiction shows writers exactly how to do that. The book introduces the saucy, redheaded character Georgina, who is getting to know the characters in her novel. Along with Georgina, readers discover how to write compelling fiction. Each chapter of this book covers one aspect of fiction writing, using analysis, checklists, models, examples of humorous errors, and writing exercises. An extensive glossary is also provided.

Laurel A. Yourke is a faculty associate in the English Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 Credibility: Manufacturing Reality
Chapter 5 Characterization: As Many Dimensions as Reality
Chapter 6 Dialogue: Simulating Conversational Reality
Chapter 7 Plot Elements: Drafting Reality
Chapter 8 Characters in Conflict: Reality in Action
Chapter 9 Point of View: Versions of Reality
Chapter 10 Setting: Scenic Reality
Chapter 11 Details: Just Enough Reality
Chapter 12 Texture: The Fabric of Reality
Chapter 13 Revision: A Shapelier Reality
Chapter 14 Connections: Accessible Reality
Chapter 15 Voice: Writer versus Character Reality
Chapter 16 Conclusion: The Writer's Reality
Chapter 17 Glossary
Chapter 18 Bibliography
Chapter 19 Index
Chapter 20 About the Author

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.7.2000
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 233 mm
Gewicht	356 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7618-1694-1 / 0761816941
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-1694-2 / 9780761816942
Zustand	Neuware