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Fiction Writing Demystified

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by Thomas B. Sawyer


  It is also my sincere hope that this book has helped clarify for you some of the more daunting aspects of the craft, providing you with some constructive, I-never-looked-at-it-quite-that-way approaches that you can “take to the bank.” Concrete knowledge, borne of my experience, that has hopefully added to your skills, and again, much more importantly, to the pleasure you will derive from your writing.

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  A | B | C | D | E

  F | G | H | I | J

  K | L | M | N | O

  P | Q | R | S | T

  U | V | W | Z

  Number

  1101 Park Avenue, 187

  39 Steps, The, 105

  A

  Abel Magwitch, 127

  Abrahams, Jim, 66

  Alison, Joan, 20

  All the President’s Men, 70

  Allen, Woody, 85, 108, 141

  Ambler, Eric, 20, 53

  American Beauty, 90

  American Hero, 104

  And Now, My Love, 49

  Andy Sipowicz, 99

  Angela’s Ashes, 8

  Appointment in Samarra, 96

  Arkin, Adam, 40

  Ashley Wilkes, 87

  Asquith, Anthony, 13

  Austen, Jane, 141

  B

  Babcock, Barbara, 23

  Ball, Alan, 90

  Ball, Lucille, 139, 143

  Barnum, P.T., 107

  Barry, Philip, 187

  Barthelme, Donald, 13

  Bass, Ron, 138

  Baumes, W.L., 20

  Beaches, 167

  Beauty and the Beast, 63

  Beckett, Samuel, 13, 44

  Beer and Blood, 187

  Beethoven, Ludwig von, 32

  Before the Fact, 121

  Being John Malkovich, 13

  Beinhart, Larry, 104

  Benchley, Peter, 126

  Bennett, Charles, 105

  Berger, Thomas, 87

  Bergman, Ingmar, 40, 141

  Bernstein, Carl, 70, 104

  Billy Budd, 16

  Biro, Lajos, 48

  Blanche DuBois, 90

  Block, Lawrence, 74

  Bochco, Steven, 73

  Bogart, Humphrey, 86

  Bolt, Robert, 97

  Brackett, Charles, 48

  Brando, Marlon, 35, 36, 86

  Bridges, James, 70

  Bright, John, 187

  Brigid O’Shaughnessy, 12

  Bronte, Emily, 114

  Brooks, Mel, 13, 127

  Buchan, John, 105

  Buchman, Sidney, 187

  Build My Gallows High, 48

  Burnett, Murray, 20

  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 165

  C

  Cabot Cove, 19

  Cain, James M., 48

  Cannell, Steve, 51

  Capra, Frank, 187, 188

  Captain Ahab, 95, 96

  Carrey, Jim, 143

  Carroll, Sidney, 95

  Carter, Forrest, 41

  Casablanca, 10, 19, 29, 88, 167

  Cats, 90

  CBS, 21, 71, 100-101

  Cervantes, Miguel de, 96

  Chandler, Raymond, 11

  Chaplin, Charles, 141, 143

  Charlie Callan, 50, 108

  Chase, David, 100, 114

  Chekhov, Anton, 50, 57

  Chernus, Sonia, 41

  Chertok, Jack, 174

  China Syndrome, The, 70-71

  Christie, Agatha, 11, 12, 74

  Christmas in July, 78, 163

  Cinderella, 13

  Cinema Paradiso, 40, 41

  Clarice Starling, 102

  Cody’s War, 100

  Cohn, Harry, 140, 188

  Collector, The, 66

  Columbia Pictures, 188

  Columbine High School, 20

  Columbo, 103

  Condon, Richard, 126, 144-145, 158

  Connell, Richard, 188

  Connery, Sean, 86

  Cook, T.S., 70

  Cooper, Gary, 86

  Coppola, Francis Ford, 165

  Corea, Nick, 71

  Cotten, Joseph, 53-54

  Crime and Punishment, 6, 126, 151

  Crowe, Russell, 41

  Cruise, Tom,86

  Cukor, George, 13, 187

  Cummings, Robert, 72

  Curtiz, Michael, 20

  Cusack, John, 13

  D

  Dahl, John, 69

  Dahl, Rick, 69

  Dalrymple, Ian, 13

  Dart, Iris Rainer, 167

  Darth Vader, 103

  David vs. Goliath, 63

  David, Larry, 107

  Davis, Andrew, 102

  Dead to Rights, 122

  Death of a Salesman, 90

  Degas, Edgar, 42, 141

  Demme, Jonathan, 102

  Diamond, I.A.L., 187

  Diaz, Cameron, 138-139

  Dickens, Charles, 127

  Disneyland, 89

  Don Corleone, 100

  Don Quixote, 96

  Donoghue, Mary Agnes, 167

  Dortmunder, 74

  Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 6, 141, 151

  Douglas, Michael, 86

  Doyle, Arthur Conan, 11

  Dracula, 100

  Dukes of Hazzard, The, 104

  DuMaurier, Daphne, 114

  Dunaway, Don Carlos, 21

  E

  East of Eden, 16

  Eastwood, Clint, 41

  Eddie Felson, 95-96

  Edwards, Blake, 143

  Elaine Benes, 184

  Eleanor McGinnis, 23-24

  Eliot, T.S., 90

  Epstein, Julius J., 20

  Epstein, Philip G., 20

  Everybody Goes to Rick’s, 20

  F

  Falk, Peter, 103

  Fanfares of Love, 187

  Faulkner, William, 187

  FDR, 111

  Fellini, Federico, 40

  Fenton, Frank, 48

  Film Noir, 12,47-48

  Fischer, Peter, 12, 23

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 6, 141, 157, 164, 165

  Five Graves to Cairo, 48

  Fleming, Ian, 103

  Jessica Fletcher, 19, 74-75, 122, 148-149

  Flynn, Errol, 86

  Fonda, Jane, 71

  Fontaine, Joan, 121-122

  Ford, John, 57

  Foster, Lewis R., 187

  Foster, Norman, 53

  Fowles, John, 66

  Frankenstein, 10, 122

  Franz, Dennis, 99

  Franzoni, David, 41

  Friedman, Bruce Jay, 168

  Front Page, The, 77

  Fugitive, The, 102, 167

  G

  Gardner, Erle Stanley, 15

  Gavilan, 71-72, 74

  George Costanza, 107

  Gibson, Mel, 86

  Gilbert and Sullivan, 42

  Gilligan’s Island, 40

  Gladiator, 41

  Godfather, The, 100, 114, 165

  Goff, Ivan, 187

  Goldberg, Leonard, 73

  Goldman, William, 6, 70, 105, 159, 165, 171

  Goldwyn. Sam, 140

  Gone to Texas, 41

  Gone With the Wind, 87, 151

  Gottlieb, Carl, 126

  Grady, James, 106

  Grant, Cary, 72, 121-122

  Grapes of Wrath, The, 168

  Gray, Mike, 70

  Great Expectations, 127

  Great Gatsby, The, 164

  Greenwood, Edwin, 105

  Greer, Jane, 48

  Gregor Samsa, 165

  Guiol, Fred, 187

  Gunga Din, 187

  Guthrie, A.B., Jr., 88

  H

  Hamlet, 10

  Hammett, Dashiell, 11, 12, 47, 74, 96, 114, 171

  Hannibal Lecter, 102

  Harris, Thomas,102, 122

  Harrison, Joan, 105, 121

  Harry McGraw, 23-24, 57-58, 94

  Hatch, Eric, 187

  Havelock-Allan, Anthony, 127

  Hawks, Howard, 57, 77

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nbsp; Hay, Ian, 105

  Heartbreak Kid, The, 168

  Hecht, Ben, 77, 187

  Hellman, Lillian, 171

  Henkin, Hilary, 104

  Hercule Poirot, 11

  Hickey, 44

  Hill, George Roy, 165

  Hilton, James, 20

  His Girl Friday, 77, 165, 187

  Hitchcock, Alfred, 4-5, 56, 57, 72, 105, 121, 122

  Hitler, Adolph, 108

  Hogan, P.J., 138

  Holt, Will, 110-111

  Homes, Geoffrey, 48

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 112

  Hotel Imperial, 48

  Howard, Leslie, 13

  Howitt, Peter, 13

  Huggins, Roy, 102

  Hugo, Victor, 102

  Hustler, The, 95

  Huston, John, 12

  I

  I Love Lucy, 137-139, 143

  Iceman Cometh, The, 44

  Il Postino, 40

  Iles, Frances, 121

  Ilsa, 167

  Inspector Clouseau, 143

  Inspector Javert, 102

  Isaacs, Susan, 108, 148

  J

  JACK, 111

  Jack and the Beanstalk, 103

  James Bond, 103, 172

  Jane Eyre, 114

  Jaws, 126, 152

  Jekyll and Hyde, 63

  Jessica Novack, 71

  JFK, 77, 110-113

  Johnson, Malcom, 35

  Jonze, Spike, 13

  Joubert, 173

  Journey Into Fear, 20-21, 53-54, 127

  Julian English, 95-96

  K

  Kafka, Franz, 13, 165

  Kasdan, Lawrence, 165

  Kaufman, Charlie, 13

  Kaufman, Philip, 41, 165

  Kaz, 21

  Kazan, Elia, 35-36

  Keller, 74

  Kellogg, Virginia, 187

  Kennedy, John F., 46, 110-113

  Kennedy, Joseph P., Jr., 110-113

  Kennedy, Joseph P., Sr., 111-113

  Kennedy, Rose, 113

  Khouri, Callie, 171

  King, Stephen, 14, 136

  Kipling, Rudyard, 187

  Koch, Howard, 20

  Kramer, 159

  L

  La Cava, Gregory, 187

  Lansbury, Angela, 74, 103, 122

  Lansbury, Bruce, 103

  Launer, Dale, 66

  Laurel & Hardy, 143

  Law & Harry McGraw, The, 23, 94

  Law & Order, 73

  Lawton, J.F., 13

  Lean, David, 127

  Lederer, Charles, 77

  Lehman, Ernest, 105

  Lelouch, Claude, 40, 49, 141

  Leonard, Elmore, 102, 164, 171

  Leoncavallo, Ruggero, 20

  Lerner, Alan Jay, 13

  Les Miserables, 102

  Levinson, Barry, 104

  Levinson, Richard, 12, 103

  Lewis, Cecil, 13

  Liebman, Ron, 21

  Lieutenant Gerard, 102

  Life and Death of John Doe The, 188

  Lily White, 108, 148

  Lincoln, Abraham, 61

  Link, William, 12, 103

  Lipscomb, W.P., 13

  Lloyd, Harold, 143

  Loewe, Frederick, 13

  Logan, John, 41

  Logan, M., 187

  Loos, Anita, 171

  Lost Horizon, 20-21

  Love Boat, The, 20

  Love Boats, The, 20

  Lubitsch, Ernst, 77

  Lucas, George, 165

  Lucy Riccardo, 137-139, 143

  Ludwig, Jerry, 71

  M

  MacArthur, Charles, 77, 187

  Major Strasser, 167

  Malkovich, John, 13

  Maltese Falcon, The, 10-12, 47, 96

  Mamet, David, 104

  Man For All Seasons, A, 97

  Man Who Knew Too Much, The, 105

  Manchurian Candidate, The, 126, 144, 158

  Mankiewicz, Joe, 171

  Mann, Thomas, 12

  Marathon Man, 105

  Marshall, Garry, 13, 167

  Marston, Dr. William Moulton, 103

  Martin, Steve, 143

  Marx Brothers, 143

  May, Elaine, 168

  Mayer, Louis B., 73, 140

  McCourt, Frank, 8

  McGivern, Cecil, 127

  McQueen, Steve, 86, 88

  Meet John Doe, 187

  Melanie, 87

  Melville, Herman, 16, 95, 96, 165

  Mendes, Sam, 90

  Mercedes Benz, 98, 101

  Metamorphosis, The, 13, 165

  Michael Corleone, 100

  Michelangelo, 141

  Midler, Bette, 66, 166

  Milch, David, 73

  Miles Archer, 11

  Miller, Arthur, 90, 95

  Minnesota Fats, 95

  Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, The, 78

  Miss Marple, 11, 74

  Mitchell, Margaret, 87, 151

  Mitchum, Robert, 48

  Moby Dick, 165

  Mona Lisa, 126

  Monty Python, 143

  More, Thomas, 97

  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 187

  Mulroney, Dermot, 138, 139

  Murder, She Wrote, 12, 19-20, 52, 67, 74, 122, 134, 148

  Murphy, Eddie, 143

  Muzhi-muzhi, 93

  My Best Friend’s Wedding, 138-139

  My Fair Lady, 13

  My Favorite Martian, 174

  My Man Godfrey, 187

  N

  Name Above the Title, The, 188

  Natica Jackson, 168

  NBC, 73

  Neame, Ronald, 127

  New York Times, The, 182-183

  Newman, Paul, 86, 95

  Niccol, Andrew, 13

  Nicholson, Jack, 86

  Nicholson, William, 41

  Nick Charles, 74

  Ninth Symphony, 32

  Nixon, Richard, 61-62, 70, 96

  Nora Charles, 74

  North By Northwest, 105

  NYPD Blue, 73, 99

  O

  O Hara, John, 95, 96, 168, 171

  O Neill, Eugene, 44

  Odets, Clifford, 44, 171

  Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, 90

  On the Waterfront, 35

  Orbach, Jerry, 23

  Out of the Past, 47-48

  Outlaw Josie Wales, The, 41

  P

  Pagliacci, 19

  Pakula, Alan J., 70

  Parker, Dorothy, 105, 171

  Pavignano, Anna, 40

  PBS, 78

  Perry Mason, 15, 86

  Phantom of the Opera, 10

  Philadelphia Story, The, 187

  Philip Marlowe, 11, 23, 86

  Pink Panther, The, 143

  Pinter, Harold, 171

  Pip, 127

  Pollack, Sydney, 106

  Polti, Georges, 11

  Presnell, Robert, 188

  Pretty Woman, 13

  Producers, The, 13

  Public Enemy, The, 187

  Puccini, Giacomo, 141

  Puzo, Mario, 100, 165

  Pygmalion, 13

  Pynchon, Thomas, 13

  Q

  Quinn, Anthony, 100

  R

  Radford, Michael, 40

  Raiders of the Lost Ark, 165

  Raphaelson, Samson, 121

  Raskolnikov, 151

  Rawlinson, A.R., 105

  Rayfiel, David, 106

  Raymond Shaw, 126

  Rebecca, 114

  Red Rock West, 69

  Redford, Robert, 86

  Reville, Alma, 105, 121

  Rhett Butler, 87

  Rice, Anne, 122

  Rich Boy, The, 165

  Richard III, 100, 164

  Richlin, Maurice, 143

  Rick, 20, 88, 167

  Ricky Riccardo, 138

  Riskin, Robert, 187

  Roberts, Ben, 187

  Roberts, Julia, 138-140

  Rockford Files, The, 51


  Rogers & Hammerstein, 114

  Rolfe, Sam, 21

  Romeo and Juliet, 10, 17, 133

  Rorschach Test, 126, 191

  Ross, Stanley Ralph, 103

  Rossen, Robert, 95

  Ruthless People, 66

  Ryskind, Morrie, 187

  S

  Saboteur, 105

  Sackler, Howard, 126

  Saint, Eva Marie, 35

  Salt, Waldo, 187

  Sam Spade, 11, 12, 23, 86, 114

  Sammy Glick, 96

  Sargent, John Singer, 42

  Saunders, Jeraldine, 20

  Scarlett O’Hara, 87, 94, 151

  Scarpelli, Furio, 40

  Scarpelli, Giacomo, 40

  Schaefer, Jack, 88

  Schlesinger, John, 105

  Schulberg, Budd, 35, 96, 171

  Schwartz, Sherwood, 40

  Scott, Ridley, 41

  Scott, Tony, 69

  Seinfeld, 107, 159, 181, 184

  Seinfeld, Jerry, 107

  Sellers, Peter, 143

  Selznick, David O., 140

  Semple, Lorenzo, Jr., 106

  Shakespeare, William, 6,10-12,14, 17, 95, 100, 133, 164, 171

  Shane, 88

  Shaver, Helen, 71

  Shaw, George Bernard, 13

  Shelley, Mary, 122

  Sherlock Holmes, 11, 114

  Silence of the Lambs, 102

  Silverman, Fred, 20

  Simon, Neil, 168

  Six Days of the Condor, 106

  Sixteenth Man, The, 31, 45, 50, 108, 145, 146, 150, 168, 189

  Sleeping Beauty, 13, 64

  Sliding Doors, 13

  Sneaky People, 87

  Some Like it Hot, 187

  Sopranos, The, 100, 114, 126

  Spielberg, Stephen, 41, 126, 152, 165

  Springtime for Hitler, 13

  Stark, Richard, 74

  Starr, Kenneth, 104

  Steinbeck, John, 16, 168

  Stevens, George, 88, 187

  Stewart, Donald Ogden, 187

  Stewart, Jimmy, 72

  Stoker, Bram, 100, 122

  Streetcar Named Desire, A, 90

  Stuart, Jeb, 102

  Sturges, Preston, 77-78, 141, 163

  Supertrain, 20-21

  Suspicion, 121, 122

  T

  Tally, Ted, 102

  Tarantino, Quentin, 69

  Tevis, Walter, 95

  The Gentleman From Montana, 187-188

  Thew, Harvey, 187

  Thin Man, The, 74

  Thoeren, Robert, 187

  Three Days of the Condor, 106, 168, 173

  Tony Soprano, 100

  Tornatore, Giuseppe, 40

 

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