The Modern Library Writer's Workshop

A Guide to the Craft of Fiction

Stephen Koch

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Modern Library
01 July 2003

Language: reference & general; Writing & editing guides; Writing skills

A Guide to the Craft of Fiction

Nothing is more inspiring for a beginning writer than listening to masters of the craft talk about the writing life. But if you can't get Vladimir Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez together at the Algonquin, The Modern Library Writer's Workshop gives you the next best thing. Stephen Koch, former chair of Columbia University's graduate creative writing program, presents a unique guide to the craft of fiction. Along with his own lucid observations and commonsense techniques, he weaves together wisdom, advice, and inspiring commentary from some of our greatest writers. Taking you from the moment of inspiration (keep a notebook with you at all times), to writing a first draft (do it quickly! you can always revise later), to figuring out a plot (plot always serves the story, not vice versa), Koch is a benevolent mentor, glad to dispense sound advice when you need it most. The Modern Library Writer's Workshop belongs on every writer's shelf, to be picked up and pored over for those moments when the muse needs a little help finding her way.

By: Stephen Koch
Imprint: Modern Library
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 201mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 204g
ISBN: 9780375755583
ISBN 10: 0375755586
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 July 2003
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Modern Library Writer's Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction

-An extraordinarily comprehensive and practical work by a master craftsman and a master analyst of the craft.- --Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls' Rising and Anything Goes -Stephen Koch was my teacher long ago. Now he is everyone's teacher, indelibly. This is a book not just for the beginning writer but for every writer.- --Martha McPhee, author of the National Book Award nominee Gorgeous Lies -The Modern Library Writer's Workshop is a treasure trove of wisdom, both immensely practical and philosophical, entertaining and thought-provoking. Koch takes us inside the writing process, and it is impossible not to emerge transformed.- --Joanna Hershon, author of Swimming