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Narrative Design: A Writer's Guide to Structure

paperbackJanuary 1, 1997
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ISBN-13: 9780393971231 ISBN-10: 0393971236
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Binding
paperback
Published
January 1, 1997
Weight
1.2 lbs
Dimensions
23.50×3.20×16.50 cm

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Narrative Design: A Writer's Guide to Structure by Bell, Madison Smartt. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780393971231.

A roll-up-your-sleeves approach to writing fiction by one of todays best writers. With clarity, verve, and the sure instincts of a good teacher, Madison Smartt Bell illuminates the process of narrative design. In essays and analyses of twelve stories by established writers and students, Bell emphasizes the primary importance of form as the backdrop against which all other elements of a story must work. Discussions of the unconscious mind and creativity reinforce other essentials of good writing. Madison Smartt