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Cover......Page 0 Copyright page......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 9 Contents......Page 11 The Uses of This Handbook......Page 19 Introduction: Revision Is an Act of the Technical Imagination......Page 23 What Are the Sources of Ideas?......Page 27 What Happens in the First Draft?......Page 28 What Is the Role of the Imagination?......Page 30 What are the Stages a Writer Goes Through in His Mastery of Revision?......Page 31 1 Considering the experience you want the reader to have in this story, have you used a point of view that is ineffective?......Page 35 2 If you have used the omniscient point of view, have you realized all its potentials?......Page 36 3 If you have used the first-person point of view, have you realized all its potentials?......Page 39 4 If you have used the third-person, central-intelligence point of view, have you realized all its potentials?......Page 43 5 Have you used the device of interior monolog ineffectively?......Page 45 6 Have you used the device of dramatic monolog ineffectively?......Page 46 7 What are the negative effects in style of the point-of-view technique you employed in your first draft?......Page 48 8 Have you failed to imagine
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- Author
- Madden, David
- Publisher
- Plume
- Published
- 1988
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780452264144
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.05 / 5 (60 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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