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Creative Writing For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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Creative Writing For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Maggie Hamand
October 2023
Beginner
400 pages
10h 21m
English
For Dummies
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Index

NUMBERS

  • 101 Dalmatians, The (Smith), 194
  • 1984 (Orwell), 135, 181

A

  • Adams, Douglas, 182, 196
  • Adams, Richard, 195
  • Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 173, 262
  • Adler, Alfred, 56
  • Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea (Callahan), 280
  • Advanced Information sheet, 330–331
  • Affinity (Waters), 78
  • Aftershock (Scarborough), 179
  • agents, 315–319, 367–368
  • Alcott, Louisa May, 195
  • Alexander Hamilton (Chernow), 281
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll), 194
  • Alighieri, Dante, 173–174
  • Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Read), 280
  • Amazon, self-publishing and, 331–333
  • American Dirt (Cummings), 65
  • Americanah (Adichie), 173
  • Amis, Martin, 136
  • Anderson, Sherwood, 138, 159
  • Angela’s Ashes (McCourt), 280
  • Angelou, Maya, 263
  • Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), 98–99, 122, 218
  • Ant and Bee (Banner), 192
  • antagonists, 54
  • Anthropologist on Mars, An (Sacks), 282
  • Antigone (Sophocles), 47
  • archetypes, 65–66
  • Argonauts, The (Nelson), 263
  • Aristotle, 202
  • Arnold, Matthew, 98
  • Around the World in 80 Trains (Rajesh), 283
  • As I Lay Dying (Faulkner), 173
  • Asimov, Isaac, 182
  • Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The (Hansen), 78
  • assisted self-publishing companies, 328–329
  • Atkinson, Kate, 173
  • Atwood, Margaret, 139
  • Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 257
  • Austen, Jane
    • creating suspense, 121
    • example of climax by, 132
    • film adaptations of works by, 217
    • history of literary novels and, 172
    • pathetic fallacy, 105
    • romance and classical comedies books by, 108–109
    • use of close writing, 88
  • Auster, Paul, 182
  • autobiographies/biographies ...
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