A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love All narrative writing must pull from the raw materi

Studies the relation between teller and listener in a set of French, English, and American short stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

If a story is going to fail, it will do so first at the premise level. Anatomy of a Premise Line: How to Master Premise and Story Development for Writing Succes

This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make sense of a literary narrat