The secret miracle : the novelist's handbook /

The secret miracle : the novelist's handbook / edited by Daniel Alarcon. - New York, N.Y. : Henry Holt and Co., 2010. - 357 p. ; 21 cm. - A Holt paperback .

Includes index.

Reading and influences -- Getting started -- Structure and plot -- Character and scene -- Writing -- Revision -- The end -- Appendix. Mario Bellatin's answer ; Aura Estrada's diagram of The loser.

The world's best contemporary novelists, from Michael Chabon and Jonathan Lethem to Alaa Al Aswany and Mario Vargas Llosa, engage in a wide-ranging, insightful, and oft- surprising roundtable discussion on the art of writing fiction. Drawing back the curtain on the mysterious process of writing novels, The Secret Miracle brings together the foremost practitioners of the craft to discuss how they write.

9780805087147 (pbk. : alk. paper) : $16.00 0805087141

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Fiction--Authorship--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Fiction--Technique--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
20160200.
Arte de escribir.
Originalidad literaria.
Novela--Técnica.
Arte de escribir novelas.
Perceptiva literaria.
Narración (Retórica)
Creación literaria, artística, etc.

PN 3355 / S446 2010

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