Read Like A Writer

There are two ways to learn how to write fiction: by reading it and by writing it. Yes, you can learn lots about writing stories in workshops, in writing classes and writing groups, at writers' conferences. You can learn technique and process by reading the dozens of books like this one on fiction writing and by reading articles in writers' magazines. But the best teachers of fiction are the great works of fiction themselves. You can learn more about the structure of a short story by reading Anton Chekhov's 'Heartache' than you can in a semester of Creative Writing 101. If you read like a writer, that is, which means you have to read everything twice, at least. When you read a story or novel the first time, just let it happen. Enjoy the journey. When you've finished, you know where the story took you, and now you can go back and reread, and this time notice how the writer reached that destination. Notice the choices he made at each chapter, each sentence, each word. (Every word is a choice.) You see now how the transitions work, how a character gets across a room. All this time you're learning. You loved the central character in the story, and now you can see how the writer presented the character and rendered her worthy of your love and attention. The first reading is creative—you collaborate with the writer in making the story. The second reading is critical.


John Dufresne, from his book, The Lie That Tells A Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction

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Friday, April 22, 2022

In the Dead of Night by John T. McIntyre

In the Dead of Night by John T. McIntyre

In the Dead of Night

by John T. McIntyre

Author of “With Fighting Jack Barry,” etc.

WITH

 ILUSTRATIONS BY 



FRANCES ROGERS

PHILADELPHIA & LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
190

Copyright, 1908
By J. B. Lippincott Company

Published April, 1908

Electrotyped and printed by J. B. Lippincott Company
The Washington Square Press, Philadelphia, U. S. A.


CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Girl in the Hansom Cab 11
II. The Dark House in Selden’s Square 20
III. In the Face of Strange Dangers 31
IV. Kenyon is Drawn Deeper in the Maze 41
V. Garry Webster, of Chicago 52
VI. Kenyon has Another Odd Experience 68
VII. The Bellevue Hospital Puzzle 78
VIII. The Night Grows Thick with Wonder 92
IX. Kenyon Goes Blindly On 102
X. Hong Yo Strikes a Blow 111
XI. The Second Night Ends 121
XII. And the Third Night Begins 133
XIII. Kenyon Meets an Old Acquaintance 143
XIV. The Uninvited Guest 151
XV. Kenyon in a New Rôle 167
XVI. Kenyon Calls on the Man from Saginaw 176
XVII.    At the Girls’ Club in Mulberry Street    193
XVIII.    Kenyon Shows His Metal    204
XIX.    On Board the Vixen    217
XX.    Baffled    226
XXI.    Kenyon Begins to See the Light    240
XXII.    The Light Grows Stronger    251
XXIII.    What Kenyon Heard and Saw    265
XXIV.    Conclusion    273
 

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
A Small White Hand Darted over His Shoulder    Frontispiece
All the Time Her Gaze Was Fixed upon the Two    73
He Stood for a Moment in the Doorway    117
Kenyon Touched One End of the Slip to a Flame    292

About the Author 

 
John Thomas McIntyre
John Thomas McIntyre (26 November 1871 – 21 May 1951) was an American playwright, and novelist of mystery and crime fiction. Wikipedia 
 
 
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