Building Fiction: How to Develop Plot and Structure

Kercheval, Jesse Lee

ISBN 10: 0299187241 / ISBN 13: 9780299187248

Published by University of Wisconsin Press, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building Fiction: How to Develop Plot and Structure
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299187241
• ISBN 13: 9780299187248
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

No one looks at structure like Jesse Lee Kercheval. She builds a work of fiction just as an architect would design a house—with an eye for details and how all parts of a story or novel interconnect. Even with the most dynamic language, images, and characters, no piece of fiction will work without a strong infrastructure. Kercheval shows how to build that structure using such tools as point of view, characterization, pacing, and flashbacks. Building Fiction will help you envision the landscape of your fiction and build great stories there.

About the Author

Jesse Lee Kercheval is the Sally Meade Hands Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she directs the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and codirects the Program in Creative Writing. Her memoir, Space, won the Alex Award from the American Library Association. She is also the author of a novel, The Museum of Happiness; two collections of poems, Dog Angel and World as Dictionary; and a story collection, The Dogeater, which won the Associated Writing Programs Award in Short Fiction.