{"product_id":"writing-fiction-tenth-edition-a-guide-to-narrative-craft","title":"Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide to Narrative Craft by Janet Burroway","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMore than 250,000 copies sold!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and \u003ci\u003eWriting Fiction. \u003c\/i\u003eJanet Burroway's best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for more than three decades it has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn the craft. Now in its tenth edition, \u003ci\u003eWriting Fiction \u003c\/i\u003eis more accessible than ever for writers of all levels--inside or outside the classroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition continues to provide advice that is practical, comprehensive, and flexible. Burroway's tone is personal and nonprescriptive, welcoming learning writers into the community of practiced storytellers. Moving from freewriting to final revision, the book addresses \"showing not telling,\" characterization, dialogue, atmosphere, plot, imagery, and point of view. It includes new topics and writing prompts, and each chapter now ends with a list of recommended readings that exemplify the craft elements discussed, allowing for further study. And the examples and quotations throughout the book feature a wide and diverse range of today's best and best-known creators of both novels and short stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is a master class in creative writing that also calls on us to renew our love of storytelling and celebrate the skill of writing well. There is a very good chance that one of your favorite authors learned the craft with \u003ci\u003eWriting Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e. And who knows what future favorite will get her start reading this edition?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 Whatever Works: The Writing Process \u003cbr\u003e2 Seeing is Believing: Showing and Telling \u003cbr\u003e3 Building Character: Characterization, Part I \u003cbr\u003e4 The Flesh Made Word: Characterization, Part II \u003cbr\u003e5 Long Ago and Far Away: Fictional Setting \u003cbr\u003e6 The Tower and The Net: Plot and Structure \u003cbr\u003e7 Call Me Ishmael: Point of View \u003cbr\u003e8 Is and Is Not: Comparison \u003cbr\u003e9 Play It Again, Sam: Revision and Theme\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Scrupulously written by a first-rate novelist who . . . gives tips, offers sensitive commentary, and exceptions to what may pass for 'rules' in writing.\"--Praise for a previous edition \"Frederick Busch, Los Angeles Times\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Marvelously clear-headed.\"--Praise for a previous edition \"Joan Fry, Poets and Writers\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The tenth edition of Janet Burroway's classic 1982 book guides fiction writers of all levels through the entire creative process, with updated exemplary passages and advice from contemporary authors, and sections on current issues such as distraction, appropriation, different genres, and young adult fiction. Chapters focus on characterization, setting, plot and structure, point of view, and revision, and each closes with a list of suggested readings and writing prompts that allow for further study.\"--Best Books for Writers \"Poets \u0026amp; Writers\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJanet Burroway\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of plays, poetry, children's books, and eight novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Buzzards\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRaw Silk\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOpening Nights\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCutting Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBridge of Sand\u003c\/i\u003e. Her collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eA Story Larger Than My Own\u003c\/i\u003e, was also published by the University of Chicago Press. She is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita at Florida State University. She lives in Chicago and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Stuckey-French\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English at Florida State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNed Stuckey-French\u003c\/b\u003e (1950-2019) was associate professor of English at Florida State University and director of the FSU Certificate Program in Publishing and Editing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45957658509498,"sku":"9780226616698","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/imageloader_232fedee-c8f2-4660-a95d-c3027793d432.jpg?v=1780764479","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/writing-fiction-tenth-edition-a-guide-to-narrative-craft","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}