Story Writing

A. A. Knopf acter action actually altered amateur author's beginning Ben Ames Williams Bertie Wooster char character characterization child circumstance Conrad Corrupted Hadleyburg course Daniel Steele dialogue door Doran and Company Dorothy Parker Doubleday effect emotion Ethan Frome example excerpt eyes father feel fiction first-person telling given habit hand happen Harper's Magazine Henry James hero hour important incidents inciting cause Jeeves Joseph Conrad kind lady listening look Lord Peter Wimsey main figure Markheim means ment Minister's Black Veil mother narrative neighbor never night once opening paragraphs passage pause person personified trait phrase point of observation presentation question reader reader's mind reading repetition retardation scene sentence short story speech Stephen Vincent Benét story's struggle sure teller thing thought tion told turned underlying idea usually Viking Press wife words worth writer written York