Beginnings, middles & ends /

Kress, Nancy, 1948-

Beginnings, middles & ends / Beginnings, middles and ends Nancy Kress. - Rev. ed. - Cincinnati, Ohio : Writers Digest Books, c2011. - 167 p. ; 23 cm. - Elements of fiction writing . - Elements of fiction writing .

Includes index.

Beginnings. The very beginning : your opening scene ; The later beginning : your second scene ; Help for beginnings : early revision -- Middles. The middle : staying on track ; Under development : your characters at midstory ; Help for middles : getting unstuck -- Endings. Satisfying endings : delivering on the promise ; The very end : last scene, last paragraph, last sentence ; Help for endings : the last hurrah -- Q&A with Nancy Kress.

Kress shows you effective solutions for potential problems at each stage of your story-- essential lessons for strong start-to-finish storytelling.

9781599632193 (pbk.) 1599632195 (pbk.)


Fiction--Technique.
Openings (Rhetoric)
Closure (Rhetoric)
Creative writing.
Novela --Técnicas--
Ficción--Técnicas
Escritura creativa

PN 3355 / K92b 2011

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