Getting Started in Fiction Writing
Learn the basic rules of writing fiction—Short stories, novels, and dramas are all alike in being scenic; that is, the writer has created a series of scenes imaginatively with short passages of necessary exposition between scenes. When the fiction writer has learned this elementary law and has learned how to abide by it in his own work, half his task toward writing good fiction is done.
Essentially, fiction is narrative and all narrative tells about changes
taking place in time. Fiction is not necessarily untrue; historical
fiction may be quite true, perhaps more fully true than history itself.
The second characteristic of fiction is that its chief concern is not with
what happens, but with what happens to somebody. It is a narrative that
centers around a personality.
Finally, most good fiction is descriptive. Poor writers believe that simply telling a story, without trying to make the reader see the action, constitutes good fiction.
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valuable rules governing good fiction writing.
Cover Artwork by Allison Tomazin
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