Fiction Writer's Workshop
Master the Elements of the Writing Workshop

The great paradox of the writing life is that to be a good writer, you must be both interested in the world around you and comfortable working in solitude for hours on end. Fiction Writer's Workshop is designed to help you foster a strong sense of independence–of being and thinking on your own, of becoming self-evaluative without being self-critical–in order to accomplish what others seek in classroom groups.

In this comprehensive guide, award-winning writer and teacher Josip Novakovich explores every aspect of the art of fiction and provides all the tools and techniques you'll need to develop day-to-day discipline as well as a personal writing style, such as:

   • More than 100 writing exercises, including dozens that are new to this edition, that challenge you to experiment with diverse writing styles
   • Specific statements of purpose for each exercise, to help guide you and instruct you at every step of the creative process
   • Self-critique questions to help you assess your work and identify strengths and weaknesses before moving on to the next lesson
   • The full text of eight acclaimed short stories, with analysis and exercises, to provide models for your own writing and help reinforce the lessons you've learned


The practical, insightful methods offered in this workshop will clarify your voice, broaden your perspective, and strengthen your fiction."
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Fiction Writer's Workshop
Master the Elements of the Writing Workshop

The great paradox of the writing life is that to be a good writer, you must be both interested in the world around you and comfortable working in solitude for hours on end. Fiction Writer's Workshop is designed to help you foster a strong sense of independence–of being and thinking on your own, of becoming self-evaluative without being self-critical–in order to accomplish what others seek in classroom groups.

In this comprehensive guide, award-winning writer and teacher Josip Novakovich explores every aspect of the art of fiction and provides all the tools and techniques you'll need to develop day-to-day discipline as well as a personal writing style, such as:

   • More than 100 writing exercises, including dozens that are new to this edition, that challenge you to experiment with diverse writing styles
   • Specific statements of purpose for each exercise, to help guide you and instruct you at every step of the creative process
   • Self-critique questions to help you assess your work and identify strengths and weaknesses before moving on to the next lesson
   • The full text of eight acclaimed short stories, with analysis and exercises, to provide models for your own writing and help reinforce the lessons you've learned


The practical, insightful methods offered in this workshop will clarify your voice, broaden your perspective, and strengthen your fiction."
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Fiction Writer's Workshop

Fiction Writer's Workshop

by Josip Novakovich
Fiction Writer's Workshop

Fiction Writer's Workshop

by Josip Novakovich

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Overview

Master the Elements of the Writing Workshop

The great paradox of the writing life is that to be a good writer, you must be both interested in the world around you and comfortable working in solitude for hours on end. Fiction Writer's Workshop is designed to help you foster a strong sense of independence–of being and thinking on your own, of becoming self-evaluative without being self-critical–in order to accomplish what others seek in classroom groups.

In this comprehensive guide, award-winning writer and teacher Josip Novakovich explores every aspect of the art of fiction and provides all the tools and techniques you'll need to develop day-to-day discipline as well as a personal writing style, such as:

   • More than 100 writing exercises, including dozens that are new to this edition, that challenge you to experiment with diverse writing styles
   • Specific statements of purpose for each exercise, to help guide you and instruct you at every step of the creative process
   • Self-critique questions to help you assess your work and identify strengths and weaknesses before moving on to the next lesson
   • The full text of eight acclaimed short stories, with analysis and exercises, to provide models for your own writing and help reinforce the lessons you've learned


The practical, insightful methods offered in this workshop will clarify your voice, broaden your perspective, and strengthen your fiction."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781599637228
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 06/27/2008
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 368
Sales rank: 392,177
File size: 598 KB

About the Author

Josip Novakovich is the author of a novel (April Fool's Day, HarperCollins), three story collections (Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust, Yolk and Salvation and Other Disasters), two collections of narrative essays (Plum Brandy: Croatian Journeys and Apricots from Chernobyl), and was anthologized in Best American Poetry, Pushcart Prize, and O. Henry Prize Stories. He has received the Whiting Writer's Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.

Table of Contents


Preface     1
Introduction     4
Sources of Fiction: Where and How to Find Material     9
Setting: Evoking a Vivid Sense of Place and Time     26
Character: Inventing Fictional People     45
Plot: Strategies of Organization and Structure     64
Point of View: Selecting the Best Viewpoint     87
Dialogue and Scene: Handling Dramatic Action     110
Beginnings and Endings: Options and Techniques for Opening and Closing     130
Description and Word Choice: Choosing Effective Details, Matters of Style     151
Voice: Finding the Narrative Voice, Creating the Voices of Characters     170
Revision: Transforming the First Draft into Finished, Polished Fiction     190
Short Stories
"Father Sergius"   Leo Tolstoy     207
"Mademoiselle Fifi"   Guy de Maupassant     245
"My Oedipus Complex"   Frank O'Connor     256
"A Composer and His Parakeets"   Ha Jin     266
"Reply All"   Robin Hemley     278
"The Blue Hotel"   Stephen Crane     286
"The Monkey Garden"   Sandra Cisneros     310
"We Didn't"   Stuart Dybek     314
Index     324
About the Author     330
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