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Making Shapely Fiction
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Jerome Stern
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What This Book Does and Why
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What This Book Does and Why
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Acknowledgments
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Acknowledgments
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PART I THE SHAPES OF FICTION
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PART I THE SHAPES OF FICTION
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Facade
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Facade
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Juggling
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Juggling
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Iceberg
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Iceberg
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Last Lap
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Last Lap
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Trauma
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Trauma
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Specimen
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Specimen
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Gathering
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Gathering
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A Day in the Life
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A Day in the Life
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Onion
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Onion
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Journey
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Journey
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Visitation
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Visitation
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Aha!
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Aha!
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Bear at the Door
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Bear at the Door
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Snapshot
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Snapshot
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Blue Moon
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Blue Moon
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Explosion
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Explosion
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PART II A CAUTIONARY INTERLUDE
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PART II A CAUTIONARY INTERLUDE
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Write What You Know
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Write What You Know
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Don’t Do This: A Short Guide to What Not to Do
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Don’t Do This: A Short Guide to What Not to Do
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PART III FROM ACCURACY TO ZIGZAG: AN ALPHABET FOR WRITERS OF FICTION
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PART III FROM ACCURACY TO ZIGZAG: AN ALPHABET FOR WRITERS OF FICTION
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Accuracy
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Accuracy
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Advice
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Advice
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Allegory
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Allusion
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Allusion
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Ambiguity
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Anti-hero
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Bathos
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Bathos
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Beginnings
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Beginnings
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Catharsis
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Catharsis
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Character
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Character
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Coincidence
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Comedy
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Comedy
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Convention
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Convention
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Crisis
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Description
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Description
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Dialogue
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Dialogue
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Diction
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Episode
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Exposition
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Exposition
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Fable
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Fable
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Fairy Tale
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Fairy Tale
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Farce
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Farce
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Flashback
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Flashback
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Formula
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Formula
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Frame Story
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Frame Story
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Freytag’s Pyramid
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Genre
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Hero
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Irony
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Metafiction
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Metafiction
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Novel
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Objective Correlative
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Parable
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Parody
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Pathetic Fallacy
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Picaro
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Plot
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Poetic Justice
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Poetic Justice
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Red Herring
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Revision
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Revision
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Roman à Clef
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Romance
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Romance
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Satire
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Satire
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Science Fiction
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Science Fiction
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Sentimentality
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Sex
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Sex
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Short Novel
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Short Novel
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Short Story
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Short Story
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Stereotype
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Title
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Title
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Tour de Force
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Transitions
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Trust Your Material
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Trust Your Material
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Voice
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Workshops
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Zigzag
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