The Art and Craft of Fiction: A Writer's Guide 2nd Edition

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.