TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hynes,James
ED  - Teaching Company.
TI  - Writing great fiction: storytelling tips and techniques 
T2  - Great courses. Literature & language. Writing
SN  - 9781629971049
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Chantilly, Va.
PB  - Teaching Company
KW  - Creative writing
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Technique
KW  - Characters and characteristics in literature
KW  - Filmed lectures
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Instructional films
KW  - Educational films
KW  - DVDs
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Course guidebook includes lecture outlines and supplemental material: Appendix: Punctuating dialogue & bibliography; "24 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container; Course no. 2541; Disc 1; Starting the writing process --; Building fictional worlds through evocation --; How characters are different from people --; Fictional characters, imagined and observed --; Call me Ishmael: introducing a character --; Characters: round and flat, major and minor --; Disc 2; Mechanics of writing dialogue --; Integrating dialogue into a narrative --; And then: turning a story into a plot --; Plotting with the Freytag pyramid --; Adding complexity to plots --; Structuring a narrative without a plot --; Disc 3; In the beginning: how to start a plot --; Happily ever after: how to end a plot --; Seeing through other eye: point of view --; I, me, mine: first-person point of view --; He, she, it: third person point of view --; Evoking setting and place in fiction --; Mowgli-the wolf child --; Disc 4; Pacing in scenes and narratives --; Building scenes --; Should I write in drafts --; Revision without tears --; Approaches to researching fiction --; Making a life as a fiction writer; Lecturer: James Hynes, novelist and writing instructor
N2  - Whether youre huddled around the campfire, composing an email to a friend, or sitting down to write a novel, storytelling is fundamental to human nature. But as any writer can tell you, the blank page can be daunting. Its tough to know where to get started, what details to include in each scene, and how to move from the kernel of an idea to a completed manuscript. Writing great fiction isnt a gift reserved for the talented few. There is a craft to storytelling that can be learned, and studying the fiction writers techniques can be incredibly rewardingboth personally and professionally
ER  -