Tables of Contents for Making Shapely Fiction

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Tables of Contents for Making Shapely Fiction

Chapter/Section Title

Page #

Page Count

What This Book Does and Why

xiii

Acknowledgments

xvii

PART I THE SHAPES OF FICTION

Facade

5

3

Juggling

8

4

Iceberg

12

3

Last Lap

15

3

Trauma

18

3

Specimen

21

4

Gathering

25

2

A Day in the Life

27

3

Onion

30

3

Journey

33

4

Visitation

37

3

Aha!

40

5

Bear at the Door

45

3

Snapshot

48

3

Blue Moon

51

4

Explosion

55

6

PART II A CAUTIONARY INTERLUDE

Write What You Know

61

4

Don't Do This: A Short Guide to What Not to Do

65

14

PART III FROM ACCURACY TO ZIGZAG: AN ALPHABET FOR WRITERS OF FICTION

Accuracy

79

2

Advice

81

1

Allegory

82

1

Allusion

83

1

Ambiguity

84

1

Anti-hero

85

3

Archetype

88

1

Atmosphere

89

1

Avant-garde

90

1

Bathos

91

1

Beginnings

92

2

Catharsis

94

2

Character

96

4

Cliche

100

4

Cliff-hanger

104

1

Coincidence

105

1

Comedy

106

2

Convention

108

1

Crisis

109

1

Description

110

3

Dialect

113

1

Dialogue

114

6

Diction

120

1

Didacticism

121

1

Documents/Diaries/Letters

122

2

Endings

124

3

Epigram

127

1

Epilogue

127

1

Epiphany

127

1

Episode

128

1

Exposition

129

2

Fable

131

1

Fairy Tale

131

1

Farce

132

1

Flashback

133

1

Formula

134

1

Frame Story

135

2

Freytag's Pyramid

137

1

Genre

138

1

Grotesque

139

1

Hero

139

1

Imagery

140

2

Imagination

142

1

Immediacy

143

2

Interior Monologue

145

2

Intrigant

147

1

Irony

148

2

Legend

150

1

Local Color

150

2

Melodrama

152

1

Metafiction

152

1

Metaphor and Simile

153

1

Mise-en-scene

154

1

Motif

155

1

Myth

156

1

Names

157

2

Narrative

159

1

Narrator

160

3

Naturalism

163

2

Negative Positive Knowledge

165

1

Novel

166

2

Objective Correlative

168

1

Parable

169

1

Parody

169

2

Pathetic Fallacy

171

1

Picaro

171

1

Places and Place Names

172

2

Plot

174

3

Poetic Justice

177

1

Point of View

178

14

Position

192

3

Premise

195

2

Profanity / Obscenity

197

1

Psychic Distance

198

1

Reading

199

1

Realism

200

3

Red Herring

203

1

Resolution

204

1

Revision

204

2

Roman a Clef

206

1

Romance

207

2

Satire

209

2

Scene

211

1

Science Fiction

212

1

Sentimentality

212

2

Sex

214

1

Short Novel

215

1

Short Story

216

2

Showing and Telling

218

2

Stereotype

220

1

Stories within Stories

221

1

Stream of Consciousness

222

1

Structure

223

1

Style

224

8

Subtlety

232

1

Suspense

233

1

Suspension of Disbelief

234

1

Symbolism

235

2

Tension

237

2

Texture

239

1

Theme

240

1

Title

241

2

Tour de Force

243

1

Transitions

243

3

Trust Your Material

246

1

Voice

247

2

Workshops

249

5

Zigzag

254

PART IV READABLES: WHERE TO LEARN MORE