Stein on Writing

Renew：Part 18
Author：Sol Stein
Update：08-15-2023
Tags：Politics Social Science
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Chapter of the National Writers Club on a day when a rowboat might have been more appropriate than a car for getting to the meeting. The torrential rain seemed determined to widen the Pacific Ocean at the expense of a state that was once described to me as "mostly desert." I managed the few hundred feet between the parking lot and the hotel without drowning. Once inside, I expected to find the meeting room deserted. Instead I happily discovered a full house, eighty-eight professional nonfiction writers and journalists come to hear me talk about fiction. I asked these weatherproof stalwarts, "How many of you want to write the Great American Novel?" and eighty-eight hands shot up.
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 1. The chapter ends with a turn of events that leaves the reader in suspense. The reader wants to stay with the characters and action of that chapter.
Chapter of the National Writers Club phoned to say that numerous speakers had advised their members to "show, not tell," but n.o.body told them how to show. Would I address their group on that subject? That"s what this chapter is about: how to show.
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 7. It involves giving each character in a scene a different tack. That technique can be adapted to nonfiction. In preparing to write any pa.s.sage or scene involving two people, if the writer focuses on their differing intentions (or "scripts"), he will immediately see the dramatic advantages of positioning their conflict in many kinds of adversarial situations in which conflict is inherent in the circ.u.mstances.
Chapter 15
Chapter 15. That will help anchor in your mind the means of establishing credibility. The examples in that chapter will help remind you that motivation can often be derived from something simple.
Chapter 3.
Chapter 34.