The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

 

The Illustrated Man 

by

Ray Bradbury

The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of 18 science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. A recurring theme throughout the stories is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people. It was nominated for the International Fantasy Award in 1952. Wikipedia
 

Originally published: 1951
Pages: 256
Cover artist: Butchkes
Genres: Short Story, Science Fiction, Fantasy Fiction
 

 The unrelated stories are tied together by the frame story of "The Illustrated Man", a vagrant former member of a carnival freak show with an extensively tattooed body whom the unnamed narrator meets. The man's tattoos, allegedly created by a time-traveling woman, are individually animated, and each tells a different tale.

All but one of the stories had been published previously elsewhere, although Bradbury revised some of the texts for the book's publication.

The book was made into the 1969 film, The Illustrated Man, starring Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom. It presents adaptations of the stories "The Veldt", "The Long Rain" and "The Last Night of the World".

Some of the stories, including "The Veldt", "The Fox and the Forest" (as "To the Future"), "Marionettes, Inc.", and "Zero Hour" were also dramatized for the 1955–1957 radio series X Minus One. "The Veldt", "The Concrete Mixer", "The Long Rain", "Zero Hour", and "Marionettes Inc." were adapted for The Ray Bradbury Theater television series. "The Fox and the Forest" was adapted by Terry Nation for the 1965 BBC television series Out of the Unknown.

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Short Stories in the Making: A Writers' and Students' Introduction to the Technique and Practical Composition of Short Stories, Including an ... Plot to Short Story Writing

Short Stories in the Making: A Writers' and Students' Introduction to the Technique and Practical Composition of Short Stories, Including an ... Plot to Short Story Writing 

By Robert Wilson Neal (1914).

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Excerpt from Short Stories in the Making: A Writers' and Students' Introduction to the Technique and Practical Composition of Short Stories, Including an Adaptation of the Principles of the Stage Plot to Short Story Writing

What is wanting in this book, critics, teachers, and students will all too readily discover without my help. Let me rather point out, then, what it is meant to do.

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The Universal Plot Catalog : An Examination of the Elements of Plot Material and Construction, Combined with a Complete Index and a Progressive Category in Which the Source, Life, and End of All Dramatic Conflict and Plot Master Are Classified

The Universal Plot Catalog : An Examination of the Elements of Plot Material and Construction, Combined with a Complete Index and a Progressive Category in Which the Source, Life, and End of All Dramatic Conflict and Plot Master Are Classified

by Henry Albert Phillips

1880-1951

 

For all Writers of Fiction and Drama, Prose and Verse; also Editors, Oractors, Teachers, Librarians, Newspaper Men, Statisticians and Preachers.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

INTRODUCTION vii

FOREWORD 3ci

I.— THE NATURE OF PLOT MATERIAL ... 17

Dramatic Expression; Plot Particles; the Ordinary and tlie Extraordinary; ABC of Plotting; Recognition; Emotional Core; Dramatic Fragments.

II.— DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN PLOT MATERIAL AND COMPLETE PLOT 22

A Confusion of Terms; Analogies in other Fields of Art; Law of Fiction Plot; the Sum of All the Parts.

III.— THE RELATION OF PLOT TO LITERARY

CONSTRUCTION 28

Not Composition but Construction; Keystone of Intelligent Effort; Soul of Organic Matter; Relation to Strategy; Non-Fiction Forms.

IV.— COMMON SOURCES OF PLOT MATERIAL 35

Plot Matter also Fiction Material; the Five Senses and Life; the Dramatic Ear and Eye; the Fictitious Mood and its Stimulants; What Constitutes Confidences; Stealing Plots or Stimulating Ideas; Books, Newspapers and Poetry; Phrases, Excerpts, Pictures and Notes.

V.— WHAT THE UNIVERSAL PLOT CATALOG IS 43

Not a List of Actual Plots; Potential Rather than Existent; Chaos versus System; A Thesaurus, Ready Reference, Perpetual Stimulant, Spontaneous Collector and Efficient File; Eminently Useful for Editors, Orators, Teachers, Librarians, Newspaper Men, Statisticians, Preachers — as well as Writers of all Kinds.

VI.— THE SCOPE OF THE CATALOG 51

Man; his Vicissitudes and his Desires, his Relationships and his Struggles; the Plot of the Plot Catalog; a Complete Cycle; the Line of Progression; that which is Not Man; Ending with the Beginning.

VIL— HOW TO USE THE PLOT CATALOG. ... 50

A Practical Device, not a Theoretical Contrivance; the Automatic Plot Collector and File; How One may be Made; Filed According to the Predominant Phase; How to Avoid Confusion; All Divisions are Potential ; Practical Illustrations.

VIII.— THE UNIVERSAL PLOT CATALOG (I.— The Grand Divisions) 71

A Progressive Category of Man — his Vicissitudes, his Desires, his Relationships and his Struggles — in which All Dramatic Conflict and Plot Material in the Universe find their Source, Life and End.

IX.— THE UNIVERSAL PLOT CATALOG (II.— Inclining ALL Minor Divisions) 75

Together with Starred References for Filing Plot Material.

X.— A FICTION EXAMPLE ILLUSTRATING THE VALUE OF THE CATALOG 107

" A Weaver of Dreams; " its Classification and Analysis.

XI— A COMPLETE INDEX OF PLOT SUBJECTS 129

Alphabetized with Cross References.

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Plotting the Short Story: A Practical Exposition of Germ-Plots, What They are and Where to Find Them; The Structure and Development of the Plot; and the Relation of the Plot to the Story

  

 Plotting the Short Story: A Practical Exposition of Germ-Plots, What They are and Where to Find Them; The Structure and Development of the Plot; and the Relation of the Plot to the Story    

 

by Culpeper Chunn

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
CHAPTER I — Germ-Plots  What They Are and Where to  Find Them 9-22  
 
CHAPTER II — Structure of the Plot 25-39  
 
CHAPTER III — Plot Development  
 
Simple Plots 43-59  
 
Complicated Plots 60-78  
 
CHAPTER IV— Relation of the Plot to the Story 80-96

A comprehensive system of; plot development, and an adequate supply of material to draw from, are almost indispensable to the writer who turns out a large number of stories each year, and to the occasional scribbler who has little knowledge of plot form and structure it is of even greater value. Years of experience as a writer, literary critic and student of the short story have brought out these facts: The writer who is long on writing is generally short on ideas, and an inadequate knowledge of the plot and its development causes more aspiring authors to fail than any other one thing.

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Studying the Short-Story: Sixteen Short-Story Classics, With Introductions, Notes and a New Laboratory Study Method, for Individual Reading and Use in Colleges and Schools

by Esenwein, J. Berg (Joseph Berg), 1867-1946       

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Light Freights by W. W. Jacobs

William Wymark Jacobs (1863-1943), was an English author of short stories and novels. He is now best remembered for his macabre tales "The Monkey's Paw" (1901) and "The Toll House" (in the collection of short stories The Lady of the Barge). However the majority of his output was humourous in tone. In 1879 he commenced work as a clerk in the civil service, in the Post Office Savings Bank, and by 1885 he had had his first short story published. His road to success was relatively slow. Jacobs' short story output declined somewhat around the First World War, and his literary efforts between then and his death were predominantly adaptations of his own short stories for the stage. Amongst his works are Many Cargoes (1896), A Master of Craft (1900), Light Freights (1901), At Sunwich Port (1902), The Lady of the Barge and Other Stories (1902), Dialstone Lane (1904), Odd Craft (1904), and Short Cruises (1907).

Light Freights (Illustrated Edition)

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Free Lance Journalism by Sydney A Moseley

 

Short Story Writing And Free Lance Journalism  

by  Sydney A Moseley

 

PART 2
SHORT STORY WRITING

CHAPTER I

WHIT is a short story "The jolly art" A complete work Novelettes Sketches 113

CHAPTER II

STYLE : Three hints Short story anatomy Plot finding Three great themes Classes of story Specialization Dangers of models
What to read 121

CHAPTER III

EtaADXNO and observation Danger of plagiarism Plot construction
Blank road mystery Question and answer . . . , 133

CHAPTER IV

HAOKNBTBD situations A French example The forced situation
Don't be lazy Too bad to be true ,147


CHAPTER V 

WHAT makes a good title Openings Endings . . . . ,169

CHAPTER VI

FIRST and third person methods Cultivate your own style Colour
Local colour Use your environment Imagination . . . 168

CHAPTER VII

UNNECESSARY characters Dialogue Heroes and heroines Reality
Minor characters 180

CHAPTER VIII

LOVE scenes Some classic love scenes Strength with restraint
Avoid " piling it on " Humorous relief The pitfall of pathos
The definite aim Revising and retouching The inexorable blue
pencil Rejections and their lessons The editor's reason Fiction
fashions How to reshape old manuscripts . . .190

CHAPTER IX

SHOET story lengths Novels and novelettes How to sell manuscripts
More hints Serial short stories Serial novels Novels in book
form The commercial side of authorship Copyright American
and English rights Prices Proof correcting Letters to the editor
Literary agents A word in farewell 209

INDEX . 231
 

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 Short Story Writing And Free Lance Journalism by Sydney A Moseley