By Cunning & Craft by Peter Selgin
Writing successful fiction is a balance between trusting one's own instincts and making the right conscious choices. In by Cunning & Craft, award-winning novelist and short-story writer Peter Selgin shows you how to combine the instinctive process of creation with sound technical ingenuity. With precise instruction and examples from classic and best-selling works, this authoritative guide helps you master all the essential fiction-wiring elements. Whether you're facing the blank pages of a first draft or trying to revise a completed manuscript, By Cunning & Craft provides you with the guidance you need to outfox common writing pitfalls and make sure your work isn't wanting in wit-or perfection.Drowning Lessons, winner of the 2007 Flannery O'Connor Prize for Fiction, Life Goes to the Movies, a novel, and several children's books are among Peter Selgin's works. Confessions of a Left-Handed Man: An Artist's Memoir, his book, was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Award in 2012. The Water Master, his most recent novel, won the Pirate's Alley/William Faulkner Society Award for Best Novel. The Missouri Review Editors' Prize, a Dana Award for the Essay, and a Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights' Conference Award for his full-length play, A God in the Home, based on Dr. Kevorkian and his suicide machine, are among his other achievements. He teaches at Antioch University's MFA Creative Writing Program and is an Assistant Professor of English at Georgia College and State University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780985849535 |
| ISBN 10 | 0985849533 |
| Title | By Cunning & Craft |
| Author | Peter Selgin |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Serving House Books |
| Year published | 2012-11-23 |
| Number of pages | 276 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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