Fundamentals of Fiction Writing by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman

 

OVERVIEW

Excerpt from Fundamentals of Fiction Writing

Living in so complex a civilization, we generally fail to realize how complex have become our mental habits. We have come more and more to think upon complexities until, for the most part, the more elementary facts, processes and approaches are slighted or omitted as beneath the high development of our minds. However learned our thinking may be, its foundation must be elementary thinking, and, if elementary thinking is neglected because it seems too elementary for attention, the result is likely to be unsoundness of the whole structure because it has been erected on unsound foundation. 

CONTENTS

I. By Way of Introduction

II. A General Survey . .

III. Creating the Illusion

IV. Your Readers

V. Distractions

VI. Clearness . .

VII. Overstrain . .

VIII. Convincingness

IX. Holding the Reader

X. Pleasing the Reader

XI. Plot and Structure

XII. Character . . .

XIII. Individuality vs. Technique .

XIV. The Reader and His Imagination

XV. The Place of Action in Fiction .

XVI. Adaptation of Style to Material

Appendix : Your Manuscripts and Editors

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About the Author 

Arthur Sullivant Hoffman was an American magazine editor. Hoffman is best known for editing the acclaimed pulp magazine Adventure from 1912 to 1927, as well as playing a role in the creation of the American Legion. Wikipedia
 

Born: September 28, 1876
Died: March 15, 1966, State College, PA
Books: Fundamentals of Fiction Writing

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