Writing Great Fiction: Storytelling Tips and Techniques

Writing Great Fiction:Storytelling Tips and Techniques

Professeur James Hynes

Exercice de Sira selon Hynes

LECTURE 7 - The Mechanics of Writing Dialogue
LECTURE 8

Integrating Dialogue into a Narrative................................................52

LECTURE 9

And Then—Turning a Story into a Plot.............................................59

LECTURE 10

Plotting with the Freytag Pyramid.....................................................65

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LECTURE 11

Adding Complexity to Plots...............................................................72

LECTURE 12

Structuring a Narrative without a Plot...............................................78

LECTURE 13

In the Beginning—How to Start a Plot..............................................84

LECTURE 14

Happily Ever After—How to End a Plot ............................................90

LECTURE 15

Seeing through Other Eyes—Point of View......................................97

LECTURE 16

I, Me, Mine—First-Person Point of View.........................................104

LECTURE 17

He, She, It—Third-Person Point of View ........................................ 111

LECTURE 18

Evoking Setting and Place in Fiction .............................................. 118

LECTURE 19

Pacing in Scenes and Narratives ...................................................125

LECTURE 20

Building Scenes..............................................................................132

LECTURE 21

Should I Write in Drafts?.................................................................139

LECTURE 22

Revision without Tears....................................................................145

LECTURE 23

Approaches to Researching Fiction................................................152

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LECTURE 24

Making a Life as a Fiction Writer ....................................................159