Words Made Flesh

Words Made Flesh by David Jauss, master fiction writer and instructor at the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Program, contains six powerful essays on the craft of writing fiction: Homo Fictus vs. Homo Sapiens; Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Abstraction?: Conveying Emotion in Fiction; The Art of Description; "What We See With" Redefining Plot; Returning Characters to Life: What Chekhov Teaches Us about Endings; and The Flowers of Afterthought: Premises and Strategies for Revision.