Creating Short Fiction

The Classic Guide to Writing Short Fiction

By: Damon Knight

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Paperback | 15 March 1997

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224 Pages

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22.86 x 13.97 x 1.27

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Distilled from decades of teaching and practice, this book offers clear and direct advice on structure, pacing, dialogue, getting ideas, working with the unconscious, and more. Newly revised and expanded for this Third Edition, Creating Short Fiction is a popular and widely trusted guide to writing short stories of originality, durability, and quality. Celebrated short-story author and writing instructor Knight also includes many examples and exercises that have been effective in classrooms and workshops everywhere.

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"To those who hunger to be writers I commend this book without reservation." --Harlan Ellison"What Knight doesn't know about writing the short story cannot be put into expository prose anyway." --Algis Budrys"Knight is one of the preeminent teachers of writing in this country. [This book] should be considered essential for all beginning writers . . . not to mention a few others, who've forgotten the valuable information it contains." --Lucius Shepard, author of The Jaguar Hunter To those who hunger to be writers I commend this book without reservation. "Harlan Ellison" What Knight doesn't know about writing the short story cannot be put into expository prose anyway. "Algis Budrys" Knight is one of the preeminent teachers of writing in this country. [This book] should be considered essential for all beginning writers . . . not to mention a few others, who've forgotten the valuable information it contains. "Lucius Shepard, author of The Jaguar Hunter"" "To those who hunger to be writers I commend this book without reservation."--Harlan Ellison "What Knight doesn't know about writing the short story cannot be put into expository prose anyway."--Algis Budrys "Knight is one of the preeminent teachers of writing in this country. [This book] should be considered essential for all beginning writers . . . not to mention a few others, who've forgotten the valuable information it contains."--Lucius Shepard, author of" The Jaguar Hunter"

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