Fundamentals of fiction writing (Registro nro. 117413)
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| LC control number | 22018668 |
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PN |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hoffman, Arthur Sullivant, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1876-1966 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Fundamentals of fiction writing |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-08-16 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Al Haines |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Fundamentals of fiction writing" by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman is a guidebook on writing fiction written in the early 20th century. It centers on how to craft stories that genuinely grip readers by creating and preserving an absorbing illusion. Emphasizing clarity, simplicity, and individuality over rigid technique, it offers practical, market-aware advice on plot, character, style, and audience. The opening of the book lays out the author’s purpose, credentials, and method: an editor’s-eye view that treats the reader as a core part of the art process. He argues that modern teaching overvalues technique and imitation, and that real success comes from simplicity, clearness, and maintaining the story’s illusion. He distinguishes straight fiction from fiction-as-vehicle (philosophy, instruction, sermon), warns how easily illusion is broken, and shares an illustrative writer’s letter rejecting formulaic “Ford-like” stories. He then proposes three audience strategies (ignore, target, or broaden) and urges writers to study real human reactions. Practical chapters catalog common breakers of illusion—unfamiliar words, foreign phrases, showy allusions, odd names, dialect, authorial intrusions, inconsistencies—and explain how to ensure clarity in names, dialogue, and scene logic. He also cautions against overstrain, advocating brevity, varied sentence length, relief scenes, and simpler plots (with special notes on frames and mystery stories), before moving into a discussion of convincingness. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1922 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Fiction -- Technique |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/artoffiction0000besa">https://archive.org/details/artoffiction0000besa</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76688">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76688</a> |
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