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The Art and Craft of Fiction 2nd Edition, Kindle Edition

by Michael Kardos (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
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Brief and endlessly practical, The Art and Craft of Fiction gives aspiring writers all they need, in a friendly voice that students love. Michael Kardos focuses on technique and presents fiction writing as a teachable (and learnable) art. With an organization built on methods and process rather than traditional literary elements, Kardos helps students begin their stories, write strong scenes, use images and research detail, revise for aesthetics and mechanics, and finish and polish their own stories. Instructors trust The Art and Craft of Fiction to help structure their course, and reinforce and complement their teaching points with examples and exercises. A brief fiction anthology at the back of the book includes 15 selections that instructors praise for their usefulness in the creative writing classroom.
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  1. ISBN-13
    978-1319030421
  2. Edition
    2nd
  3. Sticky notes
    On Kindle Scribe
  4. Publisher
    Bedford/St. Martin's
  5. Publication date
    September 30, 2016
  6. Language
    English
  7. File size
    2865 KB
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Michael Kardos is the Pushcart Prize-winning author of the novels Bluff, Before He Finds Her (2015) and The Three-Day Affair, named by Esquire as a Best Book of 2012, and the story collection One Last Good Time, winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award for fiction. He has a degree in music from Princeton University and played the drums professionally for a number of years before receiving his MFA from Ohio State and his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. He currently lives in Starkville, Mississippi, where he co-directs the creative writing program at Mississippi State.

Visit michaelkardos.com for reading group guides and upcoming events.

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B06WWFJ45X
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bedford/St. Martin's; 2nd edition (September 30, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 30, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2865 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings

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    Michael Kardos

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    Michael Kardos is the author of the novels Bluff, Before He Finds Her, and The Three-Day Affair, as well as the story collection One Last Good Time. His work has won the Pushcart Prize and a Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for fiction, and has been named a best book of the year by Esquire. He has a degree in music from Princeton University and played the drums professionally for a number of years before receiving his MFA from Ohio State and his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. He currently lives in Starkville, Mississippi, where he co-directs the creative writing program at Mississippi State.

    Visit www.michaelkardos.com for reading group guides and upcoming events.

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    Michael Kardos

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    Michael Kardos is the Pushcart Prize-winning author of BLUFF, BEFORE HE FINDS HER, THE THREE-DAY AFFAIR, and ONE LAST GOOD TIME: STORIES, as well as the textbook THE ART AND CRAFT OF FICTION: A WRITER'S GUIDE. Michael grew up on the Jersey Shore, received a degree in music from Princeton University, and played the drums professionally for a number of years. He lives in Starkville, Mississippi, where he co-directs the creative writing program at Mississippi State University.

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Jordan Calhoun
5.0 out of 5 stars Must Read if you write Fiction!
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2022
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I got this book for a class in college and I still go back to this book anytime I am writing or revising my short stories. It’s main focus is on the fiction short story but it can be applied across a wider range of genres. This is a must read book if you want to become a better writer!
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Will
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Book, BUT BEWARE ONLINE FORMAT
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2021
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The book is good, but buyer beware since the online formatting is very unusual and difficult to navigate since the format and pages numbers are not the same as the physical text. For example, page 103 isn't page 103 in the online textbook via the Kindle app, but instead, it's page 219. In order to find the correct pages, I had to keep using the search bar to find them.

If you're getting the online book for a class, then you'll have to rely on a classmate or ask the professor for the chapter titles to keep up with lessons.
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Shelby Lynn
5.0 out of 5 stars Most Helpful Book
Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2019
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I absolutely love this book. I bought it for one of my classes I’m taking this semester in college and it’s proving to me so much more useful to me than a normal assigned textbook. It’s helping me find some useful things to do when I’m writing the stories I’m writing in my free time and it’s wonderful. I love that each chapter has several exercises within it that help add to the process in which you’re being taught about in that chapter. I also enjoy that each chapter also has excerpts from the short stories that are included at the back of the book, that relate to what each chapter is talking about
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Amy Coleman
4.0 out of 5 stars Book good - company shipping not so good.
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2018
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I am enjoying reading this book. I need it for a class for my major. They were late on shipping the book but glad I got it.
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Isaiah
5.0 out of 5 stars It's good.
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2021
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I am using this for a fiction writing workshop class and it serves its purpose well. It is informative and helpful in identifying writing techniques and providing the technical foundations for someone to start writing their own fiction.
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Bijsmom
5.0 out of 5 stars I like this book
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2020
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To be honest I bought this book because it was required to my Advanced Fiction class. I'm glad the professor assigned it as our text. It is a great reference source and well written. It's a keeper
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Birdfeeder
3.0 out of 5 stars Good advice
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2018
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Way over priced for such a tiny book. That is why I took two stars. But I changed the rating because advice is good when I revisited.
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sommBookFanatic
5.0 out of 5 stars Bought because I had to, read it because it was really great advice and stories - totally worth it
Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2018
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This was required reading for class, but I truly enjoyed it and felt like I got GREAT advice for my writing!
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