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100 1 Delany, Samuel R.,|eauthor.
245 10 About Writing :|b7 Essays, 4 Letters, 5 Interviews /
|cSamuel R. Delany.
264 1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bWesleyan
University Press,|c[2014]
264 4 |c©2014
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520 "From the four-time Nebula Award -- winning novelist and
literary critic, essential reading for the creative
writer. Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has
written a book for creative writers to place alongside E.
M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri's Art of
Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks
work, and when should you avoid them? How do you make
characters both vivid and sympathetic?) and generalities
(How are novels structured? How do writers establish
serious literary reputations today?), Delany also examines
the condition of the contemporary creative writer and how
it differs from that of the writer in the years of
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and the high Modernists. Like a
private writing tutorial, About Writing treats each topic
with clarity and insight. Here is an indispensable
companion for serious writers everywhere. "Delany has
certainly spent more time thinking about the process of
generating narratives -- and subsequently getting the
fruits of his lucubrations down on paper?than any other
writer in the genre.... Delany's latest volume in this
vein ( About Writing ) might be his best yet... Truly, as
the jacket copy boasts, this book is the next best thing
to taking one of Delany's courses.... [R]eaders will find
many answers here to the mysteries of getting words down
on a page." -- Paul DiFilippo, Asimov's Science Fiction
"Useful and thoughtful advice for aspiring (and practicing
apprentice) authors. About Writing is autobiography,
criticism, and a guidebook to good writing all in one." --
Robert Elliot Fox, Professor of English, Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale "Should go on the short list of
required reading for every would-be writer." -- New York
Times Book Review ( on Of Doubts and Dreams in About
Writing)"--|cProvided by Freading.
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600 10 Delany, Samuel R.|vInterviews.
600 10 Delany, Samuel R.|vCorrespondence.
650 0 Authors, American|y20th century|vInterviews.
650 0 Authors, American|y20th century|vCorrespondence.
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650 7 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Fiction Writing.
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