Fiction

the form of novel. In the course of an eventful history, Indian novel in English demonstrated the capacity and resilience for innovations and attained the status of Universal Form. The post-independence India has witnessed a Sea change of Indian fiction in English. The form of Indian novel in English has become more open, more playful, and more concerned. All the credit aptly goes to the gifted, stupendous, and extraordinary creative genius, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. He, indeed, took

Stranger than Fiction, written by Zach Helm and directed by Marc Forster, embarks on a journey of an IRS auditor, Harold Crick, who’s found his life to be narrated and learns about his untimely doom. Literary is found throughout the movie, it’s found in the author’s, Karren Eiffel, portrayal of Harold Crick’s life as well as in her attempt to finish her novel, this adds to the literary techniques that are found in any work of literature. Some of these literary techniques that are seen in the movie

The editors of “Flash Fiction” asked themselves the question, “How short can a story be and still truly be a story?” (11). With this in mind, they settled on a maximum word count of 750, with a minimum of 250. They debated keeping it as “one story to a page, just a little book of little stories,” but soon realized that, without the turn of a page during a story, the reader is easily bored (13). Instead, they allowed the stories to begin and end naturally in the book’s layout. “Pumpkins” is a

at the police station. When people don’t know what is coming their senses become heightened and they begin to notice things that they normally wouldn’t such as shades of color or the number of pleats in a skirt. This poem is very similar to Hint Fiction because it uses the title as a way to communicate with the reader what the rest of the poem will be about and give a setting for it. Without the title to this poem and the line mentioning the weapon check,

Writing a fictional novel is a learning experience. Here’s what I’ve learned from writing a novel. Writing Fiction is Therapeutic Did one of your parents pass away? Are you going through a divorce? Whatever issue you are dealing with, you can include it in your novel. If you do that, not only will you feel better, but it make your story more compelling. To make yourself feel even better, you can blow the situation out of proportion in your novel or fantasize what you would love to happen. For example

What makes up a good fiction story? In a fiction short story the reader wants to be drawn in and connect with the story being told. As the reader we are looking for action, anticipation, or even go on an adventure with characters throughout the story. We also want to be able to bond with these characters so that it feels as if we are experiencing their journey or struggles with them, even if it is fictional. According to Joseph Kelly’s introduction to his textbook, The Seagull Reader: Stories, his

The literary genres of science fiction and detective fiction offer differing approaches when addressing a contextual fear of the unknown, as the former poses the question of ‘what if?’ rather than answering these fears as the latter does. Exemplars of this include Ray Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder and Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of the Dancing Men as their societal context necessitated a narrative to address the notion of foreign. These short stories employ various conventions as they both alleviate

There are several aspects that, while not necessarily essential, are very important in creating a story. Note that this only applicable to works of fiction, non fiction is of course based on facts. For a story to be worth reading there should be a main character or characters, a conflict, feeling, a plot, and a setting. Even if this work is a parody of another, the new work should contain the same or similar basic aspects as the original. The first two elements of writing that can and should

Word Symphonies: The Complexities of Fiction and Its Elements Fiction is a difficult craft, yet heavily rewarding, both in reading and writing it. It is brimming with different aspects and parts that all come together to make a coherent whole. Authors who have well-honed their craft are able to manipulate the elements of fiction and bend them into any from they desire, creating stories that reflect the human condition, entertain us, jar us, teach us, and so much more. There are however, some authors

story’s themes take shape and the way the readers react in relation to the story. In “The Note” I use my power as an author to manipulate the way that the reader feels and thinks. While writing this story, I had to think about how to use elements of fiction to make the readers feel the same emotions that Alicia does to understand and keep reading the story. It begins in a graveyard where 16-year-old Alicia grieves over the suicide of her mother. Now parentless, she is left alone, frustrated and angry