The Jane Austen writers' club : inspiration and advice from the world's best-loved novelist
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Published
New York : Bloomsbury, 2016.
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Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction
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Published
New York : Bloomsbury, 2016.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Pretty much anything anyone needs to know about writing can be learned from Jane Austen. While creative writing manuals tend to use examples from twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers, The Jane Austen Writers' Club is the first to look at the methods and devices used by the world's most beloved novelist. Austen was a creator of immortal characters and a pioneer in her use of language and point of view; her advice continues to be relevant two centuries after her death. Here Rebecca Smith examines the major aspects of writing fiction--plotting, characterization, openings and endings, dialogue, settings, and writing methods--sharing the advice Austen gave in letters to her aspiring novelist nieces and nephew, and providing many and varied exercises for writers to try, using examples from Austen's work. Exercises include: *Show your character doing the thing he or she most loves doing. In the opening scene of Persuasion, Sir Walter Elliot looks himself up in the Baronetage, which is the Regency equivalent of Googling oneself. That single scene gives us a clear understanding of the kind of man he is and sets up the plot. * Use Jane Austen's first attempts at stories to get yourself started. Write a very short story inspired by "The Beautifull Cassandra," a work of eighteenth-century flash fiction. The Jane Austen Writers' Club is a fresh primer on writing that features utterly timeless advice.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Smith, R. (2016). The Jane Austen writers' club: inspiration and advice from the world's best-loved novelist (First U.S. edition.). Bloomsbury.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Smith, Rebecca. 2016. The Jane Austen Writers' Club: Inspiration and Advice From the World's Best-loved Novelist. Bloomsbury.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Smith, Rebecca. The Jane Austen Writers' Club: Inspiration and Advice From the World's Best-loved Novelist Bloomsbury, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Smith, Rebecca. The Jane Austen Writers' Club: Inspiration and Advice From the World's Best-loved Novelist First U.S. edition., Bloomsbury, 2016.
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