About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews

by Samuel R. Delany

Book Overview

Essential reading for the creative writer.

Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri's Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid them? How do you make characters both vivid and sympathetic?) and generalities (How are novels structured? How do writers establish serious literary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819567167
• ISBN13: 9780819567161
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.1" x 8.0"