Story Matters: Contemporary Short Story Writers Share the Creative Process

by Margaret-Love Denman and Barbara Shoup

Book Overview

Introduces students to the living art of short fiction, by pairing 21 short stories with in-depth, in-person conversations with their accomplished authors. Here, each writer describes his or her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618470271
• ISBN13: 9780618470273
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 494 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

As a matter of fact, it's worth it!

Whether you're a student, a closet writer seeking advice, or just venturing into the world of being a writer, Story Matters will provide you with the definitions, tools, exercises, and examples of what writing is, does and means to do. In addition to covering the necessary aspects of a story; character development, point of view, voice, structure...Story Matters includes short stories from accomplished authors' works as well as interviews with the authors, which give further insight into what the reader infers of the authors' intentions. A formidable resource for the aspiring and the experienced writer, it will teach you what you do and don't know about writing.

Story Matters

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