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Story in Literary
Fiction Home Page
Essays
Author’s Attitudes:
Fine-Tuning
Character
Characterization
Conflict
Creating Story World (setting) in Literary Fiction
Credibility
Desire and Motivation
Dialogue
Drama
Emotional Complexity
1st person POV
How Stories Go Wrong
Humor and Fiction
Improving Dialogue
Information and Literary Story Structure
Literary Fictional Story
Momentum
Narration
Perception in literary fiction: a challenge for better narration
Preparing to Write the Great Literary Story
Strong Voice and Attention to Time
The Anatomy of a Wannabe Literary Fiction Writer
Top Story/Bottom Story
Victims as Characters in Literary Fiction
What Exactly Is a Character-Based Plot?
Writing in Scene: A Staple for Reader Engagement in Fiction
Interviews
Lee Abbott
Steve Almond
John Biguenet
Robert Olen Butler
Ron Carlson
Lan Samantha Chang
Charles D’Ambrosio
Peter Ho Davies
Jonathan Dee
Julia Glass
Tom Jenks
Fred Leebron
David Lynn
Michael Malone
Lee Martin
Rebecca McClanahan
Josh Neufeld / Sari Wilson
Michael Ray
Jim Shepard
Rob Spillman
Kirby Wilkins
Susan Yeagley /
Kevin Nealon
Features
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Lectures
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- Humor
Study Guide
Suggested Reading
Stories for Study
Books on Writing
Quizzes
Books for purchase
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Opinion
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Beauty and the Building of Character in a Literary Story
An Empathetic Fictional Character is Multidimensional
Is it, or is it not, irony?
A Secret of Great Literary Fiction Stories as Art
Career planning for aspiring, literary-fiction-story writers.
Improve storytelling by flexiblity in writing style
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Original Stories
Short Stories
Nemesis
Gatemouth Willie Brown on Guitar
The Wreck of the Amtrak’s Silver Service
The Indelible Myth
Inside the Matryoshka
Speaking of the Dead
The Gift
Suchin’s Escape
The Stonecutter
Facing Grace with Gloria
Homunculus
The Perennial Student
The Activist
Curse of a Lonely Heart
The Miracle of Madame Villard
On the Road to Yazoo City
Captain Withers’s Wife
The Thirteen Nude of Ernest Goings
Reddog
Short Shorts
Clouds
Dilemma
Crossing Over
The Bear
Lost Papers
Creating Literary Stories: A Fiction Writer’s Guide
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McDowell
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Guardian of Deceit
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The Surgeon's Wife
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The Spirit
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The Necklace
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The Necklace
The Golden Flute
The Amish Girl
Dr. Greiner's Day in Court
The Cart Boy
Big Gene
Grief
The War of the Flies
Father Ryan
Sister Carrie
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