Ten Great Writers on Fiction Writing

Posted on July 24, 2012 by

1. Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Essential Tips for Short Story Writing (Video)

2. Jack Keruac’s Rules for Spontaneous Prose

3. T. S. Eliot and the Objective Correlative

4. H. P. Lovecraft’s Supernatural Horror in Literature

5. Edgar Allan Poe’s The Poetic Principle

6. Vladimir Nabokov’s On Good Readers and Good Writers

7. Anton Chekhov on Writing

8. Ernest Hemingway’s Letter to Scott Fitzgerald

9. Aristotle’s Poetics

10. Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Wikipedia Summary)

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David Wallace Fleming is an U.S. writer, living in Austin, Texas. He is the author of the coming-of-age, social media love story "Growing up Wired," several essays, and two short story collections. The majority of his work falls under the emerging genre of technical satire.
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8 Responses to Ten Great Writers on Fiction Writing

  1. Brother Jon says:
    July 24, 2012 at 12:48 am

    This is great….I would also suggest Stephen King’s Memoirs: On Writing.

    Reply
  2. 1 Story A Week says:
    July 24, 2012 at 1:02 am

    Awesome! I had not heard of a few of these. Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  3. qbik4 says:
    July 24, 2012 at 8:40 pm

    Franzen has his own interesting take on the “10 rules” template with some notes on writing and a dash of philosophy. seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Franzen#Philosophy

    disclaimer: i’m not a fan of Franzen

    Reply

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