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Alice LaPlante

Table of contents :
Dustjacket
Title page
Epigraph
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 What Is This Thing Called Creative Writing?
Part 1: The Basics
Part 2: Exercises
Part 3: Reading as a Writer
2 The Splendid Gift of Not Knowing
Part 1: Writing as Discovery
Part 2: Exercises
Part 3: Reading as a Writer
3 Details, Details
Part 1: Concrete Details as the Basic Building Blocks of Good Creative Writing
Part 2: Exercises
Part 3: Reading as a Writer
4 The Shapely Story
Part 1: Defining the Short Story
Part 2: Exercises
Part 3: Reading as a Writer
5 Why You Need to Show and Tell
Part 1: The Importance of Narration
Part 2: Exercises
Part 3: Reading as a Writer
6 Who's Telling This Story, Anyway?
Part 1: Introduction to Point of View
Part 2: Exercises
Part 3: Reading as a Writer

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The Mak1ng of a Stor y

The Making of a Story A NORTON GUIDE TO CREATIVE WRITING

Alice LaPlante

W W. Norton & Company NewYork

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London

Copyright © 2007 by Alice LaPlante Since this page cannot legibly accommodate all the copyright notices, pages 659�3 constitiute an extension of the copyright page. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First Edition For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions,

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Manufacturing by R.R. Donnelley, Bloomsburg Division Book design by Charlotte Staub Production manager: Julia Druskin Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data LaPlante, Alice, 1958-

The making of a story : a Norton guide to creative writing I Alice LaPlante. - 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-393-06164-2 (hardcover) 1. English language-Rhetoric-Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. English language-Style-Handbooks, manuals, etc. 3. Creative writing-Handbooks, manuals, etc.

4. Report writing-Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title. PE1408.L31887 2007 808'.042--