On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 08:19:47PM -0500, BookBritt99@aol.com wrote:
> besides these two obvious ones, is there any other particular
> books on writing that you would recommend?
A very fine textbook is by Madison Smartt Bell (a fiction writer of
some renown himself) called NARRATIVE DESIGN: WORKING WITH
IMAGINATION, CRAFT, AND FORM.
You can find it at this exceedingly long URL:
It is a series of stories by writers at many levels, each of which is
followed by a series of exercises. Bell puts great emphasis on
structure, reasoning that a writer's style will come as the story
emerges. It's quite a fine anthology and textbook, all in one.
You can also read a lot about the editor, Mr. Bell, at his web site.
Visit www.roughdraft.org and see the entry called "Writers and Other
Creative Spirits," which points to a handful of writers whose work, or
other material, appears on web sites. Some of his urban stories
(e.g., WAITING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD or STRAIGHT CUT) are
matchless.
--tim o'connor
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