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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Saturday, December 31, 2022

The Complete Weird Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft (PDF)

 
The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (PDF)

The Complete Weird Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft (PDF)

 

 In the 1920s and '30s, H.P. Lovecraft pioneered a new type of weird fiction that fused elements of supernatural horror with the concepts of visionary science fiction. Lovecraft's tales of cosmic horror revolutionized modern horror fiction and earned him the reputation of the most influential American writer of weird tales since Edgar Allan Poe.

Table of Contents 

 
Preface ..... 2 
The Tomb ..... 5 
Dagon ..... 12 
Polaris ..... 16 
Memory ..... 26 
Old Bugs ..... 27 
The White Ship ....... 37 
The Tree ..... 51 
The Temple ..... 56 
The Street ....... 70 
Celephaïs ....... 74 
From Beyond ..... 78 
Nyarlathotep ..... 83 
Ex Oblivione ..... 90 
The Quest of Iranon ...... 100 
The Moon-Bog ...... 104 
The Outsider ..... 109 
The Other Gods ..... 113 
Hypnos ..... 139 
Azathoth ....... 146 
The Hound ..... 147 
The Lurking Fear ..... 152 
The Unnamable ..... 177 
The Festival ..... 182 
The Shunned House ..... 188 
He ..... 217 
In the Vault .... 224 
The Descendant ..... 229 
Cool Air ..... 232 
The Call of Cthulhu ....... 238 
Pickman's Model ..... 256 
The Silver Key ...... 264 
The Very Old Folk ..... 431 
Ibid ..... 439 
The Dunwich Horror ..... 442 
The Evil Clergyman ...... 651 
The Book ...... 654 


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 About the Author

H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, where he lived most of his life. He wrote many essays and poems early in his career, but gradually focused on the writing of horror stories, after the advent in 1923 of the pulp magazine Weird Tales, to which he contributed most of his fiction. His relatively small corpus of fiction--three short novels and about sixty short stories--has nevertheless exercised a wide influence on subsequent work in the field, and he is regarded as the leading twentieth-century American author of supernatural fiction. H. P. Lovecraft died in Providence in 1937.

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