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Presents advice on the basic elements of narrative prose, covering point of view, sentence length and complex syntax, indirect narration, grammar, punctuation, and the sound of writing.
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Table of Contents
The sound of your writing
Punctuation and grammar
Sentence length and complex syntax
Repetition
Adjectives and adverbs
Verbs: person and tense
Point of view and voice
Changing point of view
Indirect narration, or what tells
Crowding and leaping
Appendix: the peer group workshop
Exercises: Being gorgeous ; Am I Saramago ; Short and long ; Again and again and again ; Chastity ; The old woman ; Points of view ; Changing voices ; Telling it slant ; A terrible thing to do.
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Previous edition: 1998.
"Modernized, new edition"--Back cover.
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