Bauer, Douglas. <br/><br/>
The Stuff of Fiction :  Advice on Craft. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (201 pages) 
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Openings: Ways of Starting the Story -- Exercise: And So We Begin -- Sentences: Doing the Dusty Work -- Exercise: How Sentences Work -- Dialogue: The Reader as Eavesdropper -- Exercise: Think of Your Ears as Magnets -- Putting It in Context: Foreground Needs Background -- Exercise: But Why Did the Queen Die? -- Implicit Narrative: Achieving Subtlety while Avoiding Confusion -- Exercise: Presence and Absence -- Characters: Flawed Heroes and Sympathetic Villains -- Exercise: Making Heroes Flawed -- High Events: The Treatment of Dramatic Moments -- Exercise: The Richness of the Resonance -- Sentiment versus Sentimentality: The First, Always -- the Second, Never -- Exercise: No Cheating Allowed -- Closings: Ways of Ending the Story -- Exercise: Finally -- Conclusion -- Works Cited or Discussed. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780472026272 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fiction - Authorship.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN3355 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>808.3