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Henry James's The Art of Fiction: eight questions to put to your own story
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Writers and editors get eight questions to ask of their own draft, each tied to a passage of James's 1884 essay as printed in a Project Gutenberg file. It reports what the essay says, not whether it is right or current, and the questions are the curator's untested reading.
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Henry James's The Art of Fiction: eight questions to put to your own story
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Writers and editors get eight questions to ask of their own draft, each tied to a passage of James's 1884 essay as printed in a Project Gutenberg file. It reports what the essay says, not whether it is right or current, and the questions are the curator's untested reading.
Useful starting points
- Mark which details in a draft come from something observed and which are only asserted.
- Check whether a scene is only description or only incident, and what it adds to the rest.
- Write your story's central idea in one sentence and mark what in the draft belongs to it.
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