Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular by Rust Hills

Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular by Rust Hills

Here is a practical guide to writing short stories that explains all the essential techniques of fiction - from character and plot to flashback and foreshadowing - in a way that is both understandable and useful to the beginning writer. Long considered a classic in the field, WRITING IN GENERAL is the product of a lifetime of reflection by one of our best literary minds.

From 1957 until 1964, L.Rust Hills was an author and the fiction editor of Esquire, though he remained linked with the publication until 1999. Norman Mailer, John Cheever, William Styron, Bruce Jay Friedman, William Gaddis, James Salter, Don DeLillo, Joy Williams, Ann Beattie, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, and E. M. Forster are among the authors he championed. Annie Proulx is a well-known author.