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Alice LaPlante's guide to writing fiction and creative nonfiction, built around three strands: process, craft and an anthology of model excerpts. It walks from first idea to final revision and pairs plain definitions of terms like characterization and point of view with passages from established short stories, essays and novels. Its distinctive move is a systematic debunking of the so-called rules of creative writing. It suits self-taught writers and classroom use at introductory and advanced levels; compared with craft books that only analyze published work or only give exercises, it does both.
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Reviewers describe the book as lucid and illuminating, and the Library Journal compared it to Francine Prose's Reading Like a Writer. It is widely used as a course text and praised for making craft terms concrete through examples.
The Making of a Story is a guide to the basics of creative writing, covering both fiction and creative nonfiction. It walks writers through each stage of the creative process, from the first triggering idea to revising the final manuscript. The approach is hands-on and accessible.
The book combines three aspects of creative writing instruction: process, craft and anthology. Process covers finding inspiration and getting ideas on the page. Craft covers specific techniques such as characterization. Anthology lets writers learn by reading masters of the form.
Short, clear definitions of basic fiction terms come with examples. These include excerpts from masterpieces of short fiction and essays, as well as contemporary novels. The author, Alice LaPlante, also takes apart many of the so-called rules of creative writing. The book is for writers working alone and for introductory and advanced creative writing classes.
