商品簡介
The author of eight books of fiction, Ron Carlson has been praised as "a master of the short story" (Booklist). In this essay, he offers a full range of notes for the writer and gives rare insight into a veteran writer's process by inviting the reader to watch over his shoulder as he creates the short story "The Governor's Ball."
"This is a story of a story" he begins, and proceeds to offer practical advice for creating a great story. Carlson urges the writer to refuse the outside distractions - a second cup of coffee, an unvacuumed carpet, a troll through the dictionary - and attend to the necessity of uncertainty, the unexpected pleasures of an unfolding story.
作者簡介
Ron Carlson directs the graduate program in fiction at the University of California, Irvine.
