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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.

Samuel R. Delany

Preface and Acknowledgments An Introduction: Emblems of Talent Seven Essays - Teaching / Writing Thickening the Plot Characters On Pure Story Telling Of Doubts and Dreams After Almost No Time at All the String on Which He had Been Pulling and Pulling Came Apart into Two Separate Pieces So Quickly He Hardly Realized It Had Snapped, or: Reflections on "The Beach Fire" Some Notes for the Intermediate and Advanced Creative Writing Student Four Letters - Letter to P- Letter to Q- Letter to R- Letter to S- Five Interviews - A Para•doxa Interview: Experimental Writing/Texts & Questions An American Literary History Interview: The Situation of American Writing Today A Poetry Project Newsletter Interview: A Silent Interview A Black Clock Interview A Para•doxa Interview: Inside and Outside the Canon APPENDIX: Nits, Nips, Tucks, and Tips - Name, Date, Place Read Widely Grammar and Parts of Speech Sentences Punctuating Dialogue A Final Note on Dialogue Apostrophes Dramatic Structure Excitement, Drama, Suspense, Surprise, Violence Point of View First Person Trust Your Image Write What You Know

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