Author Shoup, Barbara
Title Novel Ideas : Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process
Imprint Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2009
©2009
book jacket
Edition 2nd ed
Descript 1 online resource (343 pages)
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Note Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Writing a Novel -- Introduction -- The Book in the Mind -- The Elements of Fiction -- Seeing It Through -- Revision -- The Interviews -- Dorothy Allison -- Larry Brown -- Peter Cameron -- Michael Chabon -- Michael Cunningham -- Robb Forman Dew -- Richard Ford -- Ha Jin -- Patricia Henley -- Charles Johnson -- Wally Lamb -- Valerie Martin -- Jill McCorkle -- Sena Jeter Naslund -- Lewis Nordan -- Sheri Reynolds -- S. J. Rozan -- Jane Smiley -- Lee Smith -- Theodore Weesner -- Writing Exercises
A substantial introduction to the elements of fiction followed by in-depth interviews with successful novelists who speak with candor and insight into the complex process by which a novel is made. This edition also includes writing exercises to enhance its use in the writing classroom
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Link Print version: Shoup, Barbara Novel Ideas : Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process Athens : University of Georgia Press,c2009 9780820332796
Subject Fiction -- Authorship.;Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Interviews
Electronic books
Alt Author Denman, Margaret-Love
Allison, Dorothy
Cameron, Peter
Chabon, Michael
Cunningham, Michael
Dew, Robb Forman
Ford, Richard
Henley, Patricia
Jin, Ha