The Art and Craft of Novel Writing
by Hall, OakleyEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-07-01
Publisher(s): Story Pr
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Summary
"Like a muse for the writer, Oakley Hall thoughtfully leads us past the sinkholes of cliches, flat prose, and self-conscious writing and guides us toward the magic of vivid and original storytelling. ...An essential resource for any writer -- beginning, published, or just plain stuck". -- Amy Tan
Oakley Hall cites the works and methods of such great novelists as John Steinbeck, Joyce Carol Oates, Leo Tolstoy, Agatha Christie and Milan Kundera to show readers what works in the novel, and why. This book features advice on taking a novel through each of its stages, from the beginning of an idea to "The End", and guides writers through the process of writing a novel.
Author Biography
Oakley Hall is the author of short stories, novellas, libretti, fourteen mainstream novels and five mysteries. His novels Warlock and The Downhill Racers were made into major motion pictures. Warlock was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He has been inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame and received the Golden Spur Award of the Western Writers of America for his western writings. He wrote the libretto for the opera Angle of Repose, which was produced by the San Francisco Opera Company. Hall was director of the programs in writing at the University of California at Irvine for twenty years. He is presently general director of the programs in writing at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. He lives in San Francisco
Table of Contents
| Fictional Reality | |
| Dramatization | p. 2 |
| Historical Research and Detail | p. 6 |
| Detail in Motion | p. 13 |
| Sensory Perceptions | p. 19 |
| Point of View | p. 28 |
| Characterization | p. 42 |
| Plotting | p. 60 |
| Other Elements of Fiction | |
| Style | p. 80 |
| Dialog | p. 94 |
| Indirection | p. 116 |
| Implication | p. 117 |
| Symbol and Metaphor | p. 120 |
| Objective Correlatives | p. 123 |
| Epiphanies | p. 125 |
| Information and Sex | p. 128 |
| The Process | |
| The Germ | p. 140 |
| Planning | p. 146 |
| Beginning | p. 152 |
| Continuing | p. 156 |
| Finishing | p. 164 |
| Appendix A | p. 170 |
| Appendix B | p. 190 |
| Appendix C | p. 202 |
| Appendix D | p. 207 |
| Index | p. 209 |
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