![]() Unlike such subjects as math and history, where a certain mass of information needs to be organized and conveyed, the writing of fiction is more often a process of trial and error-the learning is perpetual and, paradoxically, the writer needs to know everything at once. ![]() In the preface to the eighth edition, Burroway notes that "the idea of a text for writing fiction is itself problematic. Also, the new edition features a more detailed discussion of the revision process: it presents the early and final drafts of a short story, "Keith, by Ron Carlson, an established writer and professor of creative writing at UC Irvine. A welcome return are short-shorts, one of the highlights of the sixth edition that were dropped in the seventh. ![]() In the current edition, more than half of the 22 stories are new, including works by contemporaries like Stuart Dybek, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Ron Hansen, Sherman Alexie, and Junot Diaz. ![]()
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