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  • ISBN:
    0393928179
  • ISBN-13:
    9780393928174
  • PUB. DATE:
    December 2008
  • PUBLISHER:
    Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
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Method and Madness: The Making of a Story: A Guide to Writing Fiction by Alice LaPlante

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Chaos explainedby Anonymous

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Method and Madness is a wonderful book for aspiring writers. Laplante organizes her chapters by the essentials of writing, such as Character, Dialogue, etc., and utilizes, perhaps excessively, many examples to illustrate her points on proper creative writing technique. At the end of each chapter she has 4 or 5 exercises to practice these techiniques as well as a short story or two that she considers...

Method & Madness is being used as a text in our Master of Liberal Studies program. It is well wby EclecticReader50

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LaPlante has included numerous exercises to be used as starting points for short stories and they are effective. The compilation of stories is diverse and well-chosen. A must have book for writing students or those wishing to learn more about the art.

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Method and Madness

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  • Pub. Date: December 2008
  • Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
  • Sales Rank: 229,563

Synopsis

Method and Madness takes its title from Hamlet: “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.” Comprehensive and accessible, it provides guidelines to all aspects of fiction writing, from generating ideas to getting published. With a wealth of imaginative yet practical exercises and 39 stories—the most in any guide to fiction writing—Method and Madness offers friendly, down-to-earth instruction in the art and craft of fiction.

Biography

Alice LaPlante teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and Stanford University, where she is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow. Her fiction has been published in the Southwest Review, Epoch, and Stanford Magazine, and her nonfiction has been published in Discover, BusinessWeek, and the San Jose Mercury News, among other publications. She lives in Palo Alto, California.