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Excerpt: This guide takes the form of questions appropriate to ask when examining any work of fiction. It’s a slightly revised version of the one I got from Jin Brown, a fellow graduate student of English at the University of Oklahoma, who got it from one of his undergraduate professors, I think at Washburn University in Kansas. It’s by no means intended to be exhaustive, but I’ve used it successfully in teaching introductory writing and literature courses.
Good literature writers think of their fiction as a workspace for developing ideas. Fiction is therefore a created world within which each word and each idea is chosen. The product developed, whether it be a short story, novel or whatever, is a world mediated by a series of choices made by the writer. To understand the intent of the work, the reader must become aware of the choices the author made and the pattern of those choices. While developing their ideas, good writers also develop various chosen elements of fiction.
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