Feed the Lake: Essays on the Craft of Fiction

Feed the Lake Cover

Feed the Lake: Essays on the Craft of Fiction

Edited by Shelly Criswell and Grant Tracey

Cover by Sarah Pauls​

PURCHASE

CONTENTS

Foreword • Steven Schwartz

Notes on the Dramatic Image: an Essay in Six Parts • Charles Baxter

On Method Writing: the Arc of Narrative Choices • Grant Tracey

Tell Me a Story: Mavis Gallant & the Expository Opening • Robin Black

Generosity in Fiction • Joan Silber

The Man in the Water • Robert Boswell

Jump Already • Debra Spark

Writing the First Scene • Todd James Pierce

Too Muchness • Steven Schwartz

Contributors

Acknowledgements