Fiction Writer’s Companion:
A Concise Collection of Notes on Technique
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Fiction Writer's Companion: A Concise Collection of Notes on Technique.
by L.M. Shubailey


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  • The elements of plot design—
    where the action is!
  • Creating believable, intense and interesting characters
  • Injecting drama and suspense with flair
  • Creating tone and mood
  • Giving your dialogue pizzaz and color
  • Creating intrigue and suspense with foreshadowing
  • Writing smooth and unobtrusive scene transitions
  • Mastering the pace of your story
  • Keeping the author’s unique voice while maintaining your protagonist’s own voice
  • When to distance readers; when to pull them inside your characters
  • Developing your own style

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Layla Shubailey has spent the last 20 years as a professional free-lance researcher and consultant. She has attended dozens of writing workshops, seminars, and university programs around the country in her search for “the truth in fiction writing.” This small treasure is the product of her quest and is the manual of choice of many a writer’s group in the U.S. and Canada.

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Fiction Writer’s Companion:
A Concise Collection of Notes on Technique

Table of Contents back to top

  • Introduction 5
  • STORY LENGTH 7
  • TITLES 7
  • STORY STRUCTURE 8
    • Outlines 9
    • Fretag’s Triangle 11
    • Plot Outlined as a Radial Diagram 12
  • TENSES 12
  • VIEWPOINT 13
  • FRAMING DEVICES 15
  • PREMISE 15
  • PLOT 16
    • GOALS 19
    • CONFLICT 21
  • CHARACTERIZATION 23
  • DIALOGUE 29
  • PAUSES 34
  • NARRATIVE 34
  • BACKFILL 37
  • SCENES 37
  • PACE 39
  • TRANSITIONS 41
  • DISTANCING 41
  • DRAMA 42
  • SUSPENSE 44
  • STYLE 46
  • TONE 47
  • FORESHADOWING 49
  • FLASHBACKS 50
  • OPENINGS 52
  • ENDINGS 53
  • Writing Essentials Remedial Course 55 back to top
    • The Manuscript 55
    • Clear Writing 57
    • Starting Point 57
    • Let’s Get Serious 58
      • Clarity 58
      • Denotation and Connotation 60
      • Euphemism 62
      • Brevity 63
      • Clutter 64
      • Redundancy 65
      • Cliché 65
      • The Active Voice 66
      • Unintentional Comedy 67
      • Dangling Participle 68
      • Split Infinitive 68
      • Gerund 69
    • Editing and Revising 69
      • Misused Words 70
      • Punctuation 77
  • The Ins and Outs of Copyrights 82
  • Creative REWRITING 93
    • NOUNS, VERBS, ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS 94
    • CHECK FOR MISTAKES 95
  • CRITIQUES 98
  • INSPIRATION 101
  • GENRES 102
  • HUMOR 105
  • FORMATS 107
  • COPYEDITING 109
    • PROOFREADING 114