Thrill me : essays on fiction /
Percy, Benjamin,
Thrill me : essays on fiction / Benjamin Percy. - 174 pages ; 21 cm
"In fifteen essays that challenge the notion that literary and genre fiction are mutually exclusive, the author turns to Cormac McCarthy, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stephen King, and others to discover how contemporary writers engage plot, character, dialogue, and suspense"--Page [4] of cover.
Thrill me -- Urgency -- Set pieces: staging the iconic scene -- There will be blood: writing violence -- Making the extraordinary ordinary -- Designing suspense -- Don't look back -- Modulation: the art of reversal -- Sounds like writing -- Move mountains: activating setting -- Feckless pondering -- Get a job -- Consider the orange: meaningful repetition -- Home improvement: revision as renovation -- Go the distance.
9781555977597 1555977596
99969543269
2016931536
Fiction--Authorship.
Fiction--Technique.
Creative writing.
Fiction--History and criticism.
Essays.
Thrill me : essays on fiction / Benjamin Percy. - 174 pages ; 21 cm
"In fifteen essays that challenge the notion that literary and genre fiction are mutually exclusive, the author turns to Cormac McCarthy, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stephen King, and others to discover how contemporary writers engage plot, character, dialogue, and suspense"--Page [4] of cover.
Thrill me -- Urgency -- Set pieces: staging the iconic scene -- There will be blood: writing violence -- Making the extraordinary ordinary -- Designing suspense -- Don't look back -- Modulation: the art of reversal -- Sounds like writing -- Move mountains: activating setting -- Feckless pondering -- Get a job -- Consider the orange: meaningful repetition -- Home improvement: revision as renovation -- Go the distance.
9781555977597 1555977596
99969543269
2016931536
Fiction--Authorship.
Fiction--Technique.
Creative writing.
Fiction--History and criticism.
Essays.