![]() The great writer is one who does something unexpected, that no-one else would have done at that point, but that with hindsight is the obvious right thing to do. ![]() Wood evidently isn't setting out to be either polemical or prescriptive, he seems to feel that the writers he appreciates most are those who work within a given framework whilst pushing out its boundaries, rather than those who slavishly adhere either to past convention or to new theoretical doctrines. ![]() Wood looks at the usual suspects - style, form, dialogue, characters, and so on - and gives us a quick resumé of where the big names of world literature stand on those points and how (selected) contemporary writers are dealing with them. Forster's famous lecture-course Aspects of the novel. ![]() Hiding behind the dreadfully self-helpish title of this little book(*) is a thoughtful examination of the main elements of prose fiction, explicitly cast as a 21st century reworking of E.M. ![]()
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