Writing with Andrew | Write Better Stories | The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne Booth, Part 1 @WritingwithAndrew | Uploaded February 2021 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
In his 1961 book, Wayne Booth made a strong case that fiction is rhetoric. This video discusses some of the major concepts from the first part of The Rhetoric of Fiction and explains how Booth's insights can be applied to the writing of stories.


Supplemental material can be found at: andrewbashford.com/post/the-rhetoric-of-fiction-part-1-writing-prompt


0:00 Introduction
2:09 Showing vs. Telling (or Why the Rules Don't Cut It)
4:44 Writing for Readers
8:25 Stories and Realism
10:59 Authors and Narrators
15:33 Conclusion