Description: Since this bestselling book's first appearance in 1993, it has been revered among people who teach creative writing, as well as those who study it. This book is not intended to persuade you to take up writing novels or short stories, nor will it tell you how to market your stories, but it will take you through the problems facing any fiction writer and show you how some of the best writers in English have solved them.

The chapters are clear and comprehensive: Finding Your Own Stories; One Good Sentence After Another (the skill of writing well) Setting; Character (how to make characters come alive); Plot; Structure ("The Architecture of Story"); Point Of View And Voice; Metaphors, Symbols And Echoes; Revising (a chapter that also deals with the impact of writing on a computer); The Story Of A Story (where Jack Hodgins talks of his own experience with one of his most famous stories); and the final chapter, What Now -- Creating Your Own Workshop, which builds on the fact that each chapter contains writing exercises to help you work away at home at "the mysterious business of writing fiction". In this revised edition, the reading list at the end of each chapter has been updated to include excellent examples in books that have been published in the last few years. Jack Hodgins has also added a new Afterword in which he talks about what changes in emphasis he now makes as a result of his contact with hundreds of people who have used the book, and he goes a little deeper into the philosophy of fiction writing, drawing fascinating parallels with the world of music. Now, you can share in the experience of learning fiction-writing from a master.

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