| Description |
12 audio discs (12 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course book (vi, 178 pages : black and white illustrations ; 19 cm.). |
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digital optical rda |
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audio file CD audio rda |
| Series |
Great courses. Literature & language. Writing |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Note |
Compact discs. |
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Course No. 2541 |
| Bibliography |
Course book includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Starting the writing process -- Building fictional worlds through evocation -- How characters are different from people -- Fictional characters, imagined and observed -- Call me Ishmael: introducing a character -- Characters: round and flat, major and minor -- Mechanics of writing dialogue -- Integrating dialogue into a narrative -- And then: turning a story into a plot -- Plotting with the Freytag pyramid -- Adding complexity to plots -- Structuring a narrative without a plot -- In the beginning: how to start a plot -- Happily ever after: how to end a plot -- Seeing through other eye: point of view -- I, me, mine: first-person point of view -- He, she, it: third person point of view -- Evoking setting and place in fiction -- Pacing in scenes and narratives -- Building scenes -- Should I write in drafts -- Revision without tears -- Approaches to researching fiction -- Making a life as a fiction writer. |
| Summary |
Taught by acclaimed novelist James Hynes, a former visiting professor at the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Michigan, these 24 insightful lectures show you the ins and outs of the fiction writer's craft. |
| Subject |
Creative writing -- Study and teaching -- Sound recordings.
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Authorship -- Study and teaching -- Sound recordings.
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Authorship -- Study and teaching. |
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Creative writing -- Study and teaching. |
| Genre |
Audiobooks.
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| ISBN |
9781598039023 |
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1598039024 |
| Music No. |
2541 The Teaching Company |
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