Revealing the secrets of successful authorship - plot, characterization and dialogue - this guide contains everything the aspiring author needs to get started. It explains how to build short stories and novels that don't fizzle out, how to invent characters and how to revise drafts.
Characters - inventing and constructing characters, making your
characters perform, first and third person narratives; dialogue - speech,
diction, types of speech and genre dialogue; plot - the beginning,
viewpoints, expositions, subplots, big scenes, melodrama, patterns and
echoes, endings.
