Thrill me : essays on fiction / Benjamin Percy.
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 174 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781555977597
- 1555977596
- Essays. Selections
- 808.3 23
- PN3355 .P393 2016
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| PN3355 .G34 1984 The art of fiction : notes on craft for young writers / | PN3355 .L8 1957 The craft of fiction. | PN3355 .N63 1992 Show, don't tell : a writer's guide / | PN3355 .P393 2016 Thrill me : essays on fiction / | PN3355 .W75 2003 Writing fiction : the practical guide from New York's acclaimed creative writing school / | PN3365 .F67 2008 How to read novels like a professor / | PN3365 .S53 2013 The language of fiction : a writer's stylebook / |
"In fifteen essays that challenge the notion that literary and genre fiction are mutually exclusive turns to Cormac McCarthy, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stephen King, and others to discover how contemporary writers engage plot, character, dialogue, and suspense"--Page [4] of cover.
Thrill me -- Urgency -- Set pieces: staging the iconic scene -- There will be blood: writing violence -- Making the extraordinary ordinary -- Designing suspense -- Don't look back -- Modulation: the art of reversal -- Sounds like writing -- Move mountains: activating setting -- Feckless pondering -- Get a job -- Consider the orange: meaningful repetition -- Home improvement: revision as renovation -- Go the distance.
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