Fiction Writers
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共 74 题- FICTION WRITERS ON FICTION WRITING
- EDITED, WITH NOTES, BY
- FICTION WRITERS ON FICTION WRITING
- HOW THIS BOOK CAME INTO BEING
- QUESTIONNAIRE
- ANSWERS TO WHICH CONSTITUTE THE BODY OF THIS BOOK
- VII. What is your general feeling on the value of technique?
- X. What is the elemental hold of fiction on the human mind?
- XI. Do you prefer writing in the first person or the third? Why?
- QUESTION I
- ANSWERS
- SUMMARY
- QUESTION II
- ANSWERS
- 2. Develop the climax first.
- I see the main ending pretty clearly when I start.
- SUMMARY
- QUESTION III
- ANSWERS
- I have no stock pictures.
- I would rather not be told too much.
- I respond to an author with all he gives me and all I have myself.
- I resent nothing an author may do except to be dull.
- I certainly do not have stock pictures of anything.
- I do resent.
- I think I haven't any stock pictures; perhaps I have for a cowboy.
- I took honors in solid geometry.
- I have no stock pictures. If a picture comes at all, it is a new one.
- I have not studied any form of higher mathematics.
- I do not know.
- I am sure that each case produces its individual vision.
- I did not study geometry. Never could study anything much.
- I never studied solid geometry.
- I never even finished grammar school.
- I do not resent the presence of many images and pictures in a story.
- I have no stock pictures. Each case produces its own vision.
- Just starting to use these "tools of my trade."
- I prefer, on the whole, to fill out details for myself.
- SUMMARY
- QUESTION IV
- ANSWERS
- SUMMARY
- QUESTION V
- ANSWERS
- SUMMARY
- QUESTION VI
- ANSWERS
- SUMMARY
- QUESTION VII
- ANSWERS
- SUMMARY
- QUESTION VIII
- ANSWERS
- SUMMARY
- QUESTION IX
- ANSWERS
- 4th to 56th rule. _Write._
- SUMMARY
- 1. Wordiness
- 2. Lack of simplicity
- 3. Surface tinsel
- QUESTION X
- ANSWERS
- SUMMARY
- QUESTION XI
- ANSWERS
- SUMMARY
- QUESTION XII
- ANSWERS
- I use a pencil and a stenographer does the rest.
- I find the typewriter affords least check and work on it exclusively.
- SUMMARY
- THE END
- End of Project Gutenberg's Fiction Writers on Fiction Writing, by Various