The stuff of fiction : advice on craft / Douglas Bauer.
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
©2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Openings : ways of starting the story
- Dialogue : the reader as eavesdropper
- Characters : the need for flawed heroes and sympathetic villains
- High events : the treatment of dramatic moments in serious fiction
- Sentiment versus sentimentality : the first, always; the second, never
- Closings : ways of ending the story.