01548cam a2200241 4500 7614 20181127184000.0 991012s2000 njua 001 0 eng 99051599 0130257710 808.3 21 Schoen, Steven, 1946- The truth about fiction / Steven Schoen. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 2000. xviii, 121 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes index. Lying 101. Basic truths ; The structured lie ; True believers -- Details. Sweating the small stuff ; Show-and-tell ; Action ; Setting -- Character. Character-driven plot ; Defining the cast ; How to build a person ; Presentation -- Plot. Nothing new under the son ; Cause-and-effect plotting ; Plot outlines -- Story structure. Opening the doors ; Middles ; Endings -- Dialogue. Mechanics ; Dialogue/style ; Dialogue/content - - Point of view. Processing ; The points of view -- Style. Mode ; Dealing with the past ; Diction ; Symbolism -- Appendixes. Research ; Publication and market research exercise ; Manuscript style. Designed for undergraduate courses in introductory creative writing, This text treats creative writing as a practical skill-building course with actual applications. It presents coverage of the elements of fiction and real-world writing techniques. Creative writing. Fiction Authorship. Fiction Technique. 6522 6522 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAIN RTCLIB RTCLIB MAIN 2021-08-30 11572 1 808.3 SCH 30012209 2021-09-10 00:00:00 2021-08-30 2018-11-27 MAIN