Elements of Fiction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780802147639)

In his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley supplied aspiring writers with the basic tools to write a novel in one year. In this com-plementary follow up, Mosley guides the writer through the elements of not just any fiction writing, but the kind of writing that transcends convention and truly stands out. How does one approach the genius of writers like Melville, Dickens, or Twain? In The Elements of Fiction, Walter Mosley contemplates the answer.

In a series of instructive and conversational chapters, Mosley demonstrates how to master fiction's most essential elements: character and char-acter development, plot and story, voice and narrative, context and description, and more. The result is a vivid depiction of the writing process, from the blank page to the first draft to rewriting, and rewriting again. Throughout, The Elements of Fiction is enriched by brilliant demonstrative examples that Mosley himself has written here for the first time.

Inspiring, accessible, and told in a voice both trustworthy and wise, The Elements of Fiction writing will intrigue and encourage writers and readers alike.

Author: Walter Mosley
ISBN-10: 0802147631
ISBN-13: 9780802147639
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 09/03/2019
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/17/2019
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2019
Library Journal 08/01/2019 pg. 104