The Key: How to Write Damn Good Fiction Using the Power of Myth - Softcover

Frey, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312300522 ISBN 13: 9780312300524

Verlag: St. Martin's Griffin, 2002

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The Key: How to Write Damn Good Fiction Using the Power of Myth is designed as a practical step-by-step guide for fiction writers and screen writers who want to shape their own ideas into a mythic story.

In his widely read How to Write a Damn Good Novel and How to Write a Damn Good Novel II: Advanced Techniques, novelist and fiction-writing coach James N. Frey showed writers how-starting with rounded, living, breathing, dynamic characters-to structure a novel that sustains tension and development and ends in a satisfying, dramatic climax.

Now, in The Key, Frey takes his no-nonsense, "Damn Good" approach and applies it to Joseph Campbell's insights into the universal structure of myths. Myths, says Frey, are the basis of all storytelling, and their structures and motifs are just as powerful for contemporary writers as they were for Homer. Frey begins with the qualities found in mythic heroes-ancient and modern-such as the hero's special talent, his or her wound, status as an "outlaw," and so on.

He then demonstrates how the hero is initiated-sent on a mission, forced to learn the new rules, tested, and suffers a symbolic death and rebirth-before he or she can return home. Using dozens of classical and contemporary novels and films as models, Frey shows how these motifs and forms work their powerful magic on the reader's imagination.

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James N. Frey is one of America's leading creative writing teachers. For over fifteen years, he conducted the popular Open Workshop at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and has run workshops and lectured at dozens of other schools and conferences, including the Oregon Writers Colony, the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, the Heartland Writers, the University of California Extension novel writing workshop, the California Writers Club conference, and many others, both in America and in Europe. He is the author of nine novels and five widely read creative writing guides; How to Write a Damn Good Novel, How to Write a Damn Good Novel II: Advanced Techniques, The Key: Writing Damn Good Fiction Using the Power of Myth, How to Write a Damn Good Mystery, and How to Write a Damn Good Thriller. He lives on a sailboat with his wife, Liza. James N. Frey is NOT the author of A MILLION LITTLE PIECES.

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• Verlag: St. Martin's Griffin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0312300522
• ISBN 13: 9780312300524
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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