Building Fiction by Jesse Lee Kercheval

Building Fiction by Jesse Lee Kercheval

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Building Fiction by Jesse Lee Kercheval

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.
If you are writing fiction or teaching students to write fiction, this book is the best guide you can have- Kelly Cherry, author of My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers: A Novel in Stories

Jesse Lee Kercheval grew up in Florida after being born in France. She's written thirteen books of poetry, fiction, and memoir, including the novels The Museum of Happiness and My Life as a Silent Movie, as well as the writing text Creating Fiction. She is the Sally Mead Hands Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches creative writing.

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ISBN 13 9780299187248
ISBN 10 0299187241
Title Building Fiction
Author Jesse Lee Kercheval
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
Year published 2003-03-31
Number of pages 208
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