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Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Die vorliegende Fassung 2 Inhalt 2.1 Part One – Me 2.2 Part Two – You 2.3 Part Three – The Work 2.4 Part Four – Ad Hoc 2.5 Part Five – A Literary Conservatory 2.6 Part Six – An Annotated Reading List

Die vorliegende Fassung

Brown, Rita Mae: Starting from Scratch. A different kind of writers' manual © 1988 – Speakeasy Productions, Inc. Bantam trade edition, April 1989 ISBN 055334630X

Inhalt

• Introduction

Part One – Me

• The Chicken or the Egg?

Part Two – You

• The Beginning of all Literature: Your Body
• Guzzling and Snorting
• Sex, Love, and Rock 'n Roll
• The Ivory Tower and the City Desk
• Computers and Other Expensive Knickknacks

Part Three – The Work

• Words as Seperate Units of Conciousness
• The Two English Languages
• Verbs, or Put the Pedal to the Metal
• The Passive Voice, or The Secret Agent
• Hybrids: The Alchemy of the English Language
• Dialogue: The Secrets of Idiosyncratic Speech
• Character Development: Being a Thief of Souls
• Plot, as in "The Plot Thickens"
• The Subjunctive: The empire of the Shadow Senses
• A Sidelight on English Preoccupations
• Myth and Symbol, as Opposed to Hit or Myth
• Writing as a Moral Act
• Ecercises

Part Four – Ad Hoc

• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, or Readers, Publishers and Critics
• Literary Vaudeville: The Road Tour
• Hot Cash and Cold Comfort
• Magazine Articles
• Nonfiction and Other Lies
• Short Stories
• Plays
• Screenplays and Teleplays: How Not to Break Your Heart
• Shorthand: Novel Versus Screenplay
• A Circumflex Accent: Bending Back
• Change Reality: Don't Abandon It

Part Five – A Literary Conservatory

Part Six – An Annotated Reading List