Short Story Writing And Free Lance Journalism by Sydney A Moseley

 

Short Story Writing And Free Lance Journalism  

by  Sydney A Moseley

 

PART 2
SHORT STORY WRITING

CHAPTER I

WHIT is a short story "The jolly art" A complete work Novelettes Sketches 113

CHAPTER II

STYLE : Three hints Short story anatomy Plot finding Three great themes Classes of story Specialization Dangers of models
What to read 121

CHAPTER III

EtaADXNO and observation Danger of plagiarism Plot construction
Blank road mystery Question and answer . . . , 133

CHAPTER IV

HAOKNBTBD situations A French example The forced situation
Don't be lazy Too bad to be true ,147


CHAPTER V 

WHAT makes a good title Openings Endings . . . . ,169

CHAPTER VI

FIRST and third person methods Cultivate your own style Colour
Local colour Use your environment Imagination . . . 168

CHAPTER VII

UNNECESSARY characters Dialogue Heroes and heroines Reality
Minor characters 180

CHAPTER VIII

LOVE scenes Some classic love scenes Strength with restraint
Avoid " piling it on " Humorous relief The pitfall of pathos
The definite aim Revising and retouching The inexorable blue
pencil Rejections and their lessons The editor's reason Fiction
fashions How to reshape old manuscripts . . .190

CHAPTER IX

SHOET story lengths Novels and novelettes How to sell manuscripts
More hints Serial short stories Serial novels Novels in book
form The commercial side of authorship Copyright American
and English rights Prices Proof correcting Letters to the editor
Literary agents A word in farewell 209

INDEX . 231
 

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