The Jane Austen writers' club : inspiration and advice from the world's best-loved novelist
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information
New York : Bloomsbury, 2016.
Physical Description
xii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Summary
"Pretty much anything anyone needs to know about writing can be learned from Jane Austen. While creative writing manuals tend to use examples from twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers, The Jane Austen Writers' Club is the first to look at the methods and devices used by the world's most beloved novelist. Austen was a creator of immortal characters and a pioneer in her use of language and point of view; her advice continues to be relevant two centuries after her death. Here Rebecca Smith examines the major aspects of writing fiction--plotting, characterization, openings and endings, dialogue, settings, and writing methods--sharing the advice Austen gave in letters to her aspiring novelist nieces and nephew, and providing many and varied exercises for writers to try, using examples from Austen's work,"--Amazon.com.
Contents
- Plan of a novel
- 'Intricate characters are the most amusing'
- Building the village of your story
- A fine pair of eyes
- Light, bright and sparkling
- Secrets and suspense
- In Jane Austen's pocket
- 'And what is fifty miles of good road?'
- 'You know how interesting the purchase of a sponge-cake is to me'
- Joints of mutton and doses of rhubarb.