Art of brevity
by Faulkner, Grant
Published by : University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, New Mexico) Physical details: x, 173 pages 22 cm ISBN:9780826364739; 082636473X.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 800 - 899 | 808.31 Fau (Browse shelf) | Available | 116578 |
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| 808.3 Mau Great Novelists and Their Novels | 808.3 Rit Your first novel | 808.3 Sor How to write short stories | 808.31 Fau Art of brevity | 808.34 Dav Novelist's Essential Guide to Creating Plot | 808.3872 Eph Writing & selling your mystery novel / | 808.3876 Car How to write science fiction and fantasy |
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Megan Giddings -- Introduction: Going long. going short. -- Thirteen ways of looking at flash fiction -- The freedom of constraints -- Telling a story in fragments -- The erotics of brevity – Context : how much is enough? -- The fullness of omission -- White spaces -- Plotting in miniature (and with a slant) -- Writing characters in fleeting profile -- Writing for the essence -- The sounds of silence -- Found objects, found stories -- Story as collage -- Going small to go big : the art of expansion -- Going small to go small -- The poetics of brevity -- Is it poetry or prose? -- How short can you go? -- The mot juste -- The sentence -- The paragraph -- The title -- The "flash novel" and the novella – Endings.
"With increased compression, every word, every sentence matters more. A writer must learn how to form narratives around caesuras and crevices instead of strings of connections, to move a story through the symbolic weight of images, to master the power of suggestion. With elegant prose, deep readings of other writers, and scaffolded writing exercises, The Art of Brevity takes the reader on a lyrical exploration of compact storytelling, guiding readers to heighten their awareness of not only what appears on the page but also what doesn't"--Publisher's description.
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