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Ideal for those new to the genre or for anyone who wishes to improve their technique, Ailsa Cox’s guide will help readers achieve their full potential as a short story writer. The book encourages you to be inventive, to break writing habits and to try something new, by showing the diversity of the short story genre, from cyberpunk to social observation. Each chapter of the book: introduces key aspects of the craft of short story writing, including structure, dialogue, characterization, viewpoint, narrative voice and more shows how a wide variety of published writers have approached the short story genre, in order to deepen the insights you gain from your own work gets you writing, with a series of original, sometimes challenging but always rewarding exercises, which can be tackled alone or adapted for use in a group includes activities at the end of each chapter. Ailsa Cox draws on her experience as a writer to provide essential information on drafting and editing, as well as a rich Resources section, which lists print and online journals that accept the work of new writers. Whether you’re writing as part of a course, in a workshop group or at home alone, this book will equip and inspire you to write better short stories, and make you a more skilled, enthusiastic and motivated writer of short stories.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements  Introduction  1. Spinning a Yarn  What makes a story  Finding a voice  Where to begin  Building suspense and narrative drive  First thoughts on structure: Crime fiction and the supernatural  Linear narrative  Plot resolution  Telling Tales  Creating Suspense: ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’  Tall Tales  Games and puzzles: ‘The Red-Headed League’  Structure  Writing in the Dark  Activities  2. Capturing the Moment  Imagery and symbolism  Using the senses  The epiphany  Internal monologue  Stream of Consciousness  Non-linear narrative  Open endings  The Mind’s Eye  Using the Senses: ‘Bliss’  Epiphany: ‘The Dead’  Playing Around With Time  Stream of consciousness: ‘Not not while the giro’  Activities  3. Humour  Sketches, anecdotes and parody  Comic tension  Character and dialogue  Irony  First person narratives  Unreliable narrators  Laughing Out Loud  Irony  Character Observation  The Anecdote: ‘News’  Parody and Satire: ‘The Hands of Dingo Deery’  Activities  4. The Fantastic  Fantasy, reality and the imagination  Fables, fairy tales and magic realism  Myths and symbols  Intertextuality  Viewpoint: focalization  Multiple narration and the ‘story within a story.’  Inventing other worlds  Voluntary Dreams  Altering Reality: ‘Metamorphosis’  Myth: ‘The Company of Wolves’  Parallel Worlds: ‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’  Activities  5. What If?  Visions of the future: science fiction, speculation, cyberpunk  Researching short stories  Getting ideas  ‘Journey’ structures  Openings  The Unknown: ‘In The Abyss’  Utopias and dystopias  Cyberpunk: ‘Burning Chrome’  Activities  6. Reality  Social observation  Reportage, life writing and autobiography  Fictionalising reality  Condensing time: ellipsis  Linked stories and story cycles  The Heat of the Moment  The short story and journalism  Social observation: ‘Country Living’  Memories: ‘Family Furnishings’  Activities  7. Love, Sex and Shaping a Story  Erotic writing  Writing with passion  Revenge narratives  Past and present tense  Last thoughts on structure  Controlling pace  Final edits  Sex, Love and Romance  Desire: ‘Death Constant Beyond Love’  Adultery: ‘Lady with Lapdog’  Revenge: ‘Dr Frankenstein, I Presume’  Activities  Resources  Bibliography

About the Author :
Ailsa Cox is Reader in Creative Writing and English at Edge Hill University, UK.

Review :
"I am impressed by the coverage of this book. But it is also braver than most texts of this type in that it goes beyond purely literary fiction and teaches popular short fiction. It is an essential text which is the next exciting chapter of this wonderful programme from Routledge." David Morley, Director of Warwick Writing Programme, University of Warwick, UK "This is a strong subject textbook which is full of original and rigorous exercises. There is a useful, workbook element to the examples, and a thorough and innovative approach to the technical issues of plot, character, voice etc." Julia Bell, Lecturer in Creative Writing, Birkbeck, University of London, UK


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781134410446
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 1134410441
  • Publisher Date: 07 May 2007
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Routledge Writer's Guide


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