Mod Lib Writer's Workshop

A Guide to the Craft of Fiction

By: Stephen Koch

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Paperback | 1 April 2003 | Edition Number 1

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"Make your] characters want something right away--even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time." --Kurt Vonnegut
"'The cat sat on the mat' is not the beginning of a story, but 'the cat sat on the dog's mat' is." --John Le Carre
Nothing is more inspiring for a beginning writer than listening to masters of the craft talk about the writing life. But if you can't get Vladimir Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez together at the Algonquin, "The Modern Library Writer's Workshop" gives you the next best thing. Stephen Koch, former chair of Columbia University's graduate creative writing program, presents a unique guide to the craft of fiction. Along with his own lucid observations and commonsense techniques, he weaves together wisdom, advice, and inspiring commentary from some of our greatest writers. Taking you from the moment of inspiration (keep a notebook with you at all times), to writing a first draft (do it quickly you can always revise later), to figuring out a plot (plot always serves the story, not vice versa), Koch is a benevolent mentor, glad to dispense sound advice when you need it most. "The Modern Library Writer's Workshop" belongs on every writer's shelf, to be picked up and pored over for those moments when the muse needs a little help finding her way.

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"An extraordinarily comprehensive and practical work by a master craftsman and a master analyst of the craft." -Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls' Rising and Anything Goes

"Stephen Koch was my teacher long ago. Now he is everyone's teacher, indelibly. This is a book not just for the beginning writer but for every writer." -Martha McPhee, author of the National Book Award nominee Gorgeous Lies

"The Modern Library Writer's Workshop is a treasure trove of wisdom, both immensely practical and philosophical, entertaining and thought-provoking. Koch takes us inside the writing process, and it is impossible not to emerge transformed." -Joanna Hershon, author of Swimming

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Beginnings	p. 3
The Writing Life	p. 30
Shaping the Story	p. 56
Making Characters Live	p. 84
Inventing Your Style	p. 112
The Story of the Self	p. 135
Working and Reworking	p. 157
Finishing	p. 179
Postscript	p. 202
Notes	p. 215
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