Plotting the Short Story

ISBN: 9781330787984 出版年：2016 页码：95 Culpeper Chunn Forgotten Books

A comprehensive system of; plot d evcl opment, and an adequate supply of material to draw from, are almost indis pensable to the writer who turns out a large number of stories each year, and to the occasional scribbler who has little knowledge of plot form and structure it is of even greater value. Years of experience as a writer, literary critic and student of the short story have brought out these facts: The writer who is long on writing is generally short on ideas, and an inadequate knowledge of the plot and its development causes more aspiring authors to fail than any other one thing.