Chapter Five presents the strategies of fiction. In the fourth he goes into the necessity for conflict, what to do and not to do in building it. The third chapter is all about feelings and how to use them. How to find them, how to use them and make them clear and concise. In the second chapter he gets down to serious business - words. That makes it easy to find specific information when you go back later to look for it. His style is terse and sentences are short. Then he discusses things like rules and the creative act of writing. The first, Fiction and You, tells what the writer needs to know and gives common traps writers fall into. The information he presents is solid, useful and timeless. Although Swain's book was originally published in 1965, there's a very good reason why it's still in print.
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