TY - BOOK AU - Alarcon,Daniel TI - The secret miracle: the novelist's handbook T2 - A Holt paperback SN - 9780805087147 (pbk. : alk. paper) : AV - PN 3355 S446 2010 U1 - 808.3 PY - 2010/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Henry Holt and Co. KW - Fiction KW - Authorship KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Technique KW - 20160200 KW - Arte de escribir KW - Originalidad literaria KW - Novela KW - Técnica KW - Arte de escribir novelas KW - Perceptiva literaria KW - Narración (Retórica) KW - Creación literaria, artística, etc N1 - Includes index; Reading and influences -- Getting started -- Structure and plot -- Character and scene -- Writing -- Revision -- The end -- Appendix. Mario Bellatin's answer ; Aura Estrada's diagram of The loser N2 - The world's best contemporary novelists, from Michael Chabon and Jonathan Lethem to Alaa Al Aswany and Mario Vargas Llosa, engage in a wide-ranging, insightful, and oft- surprising roundtable discussion on the art of writing fiction. Drawing back the curtain on the mysterious process of writing novels, The Secret Miracle brings together the foremost practitioners of the craft to discuss how they write ER -