The One-Hour MFA

90 pages, pocket sized, beautiful
ISBN 13: 978-0-9906020-5-7
Released in July 2015

Want to save $50K on graduate school? In The One-Hour MFA, novelist Michael Kimball (Big Ray, Dear Everybody, etc.) gives indispensable advice as he breaks down the writing process into fifteen brief, meaningful lessons. Making detailed reference to some of the world’s best fiction writers, Kimball gives straightforward guidance on how to open a story and how to end one, how to revise and how to pay attention to things like syntax and acoustics, as well as various ways to think about character, voice, story, plot, and description.

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Check out the index to see the exhaustive list of writers Kimball refers to.

Here’s an article at FastCo about the book.

Here’s a review at JMWW.

Michael Kimball is the author of seven other books, including Big Ray, Dear Everybody, Us, and, most recently, Galaga. His work has been translated into a dozen languages and been on NPR’s All Things Considered and in Vice, as well as The Guardian, Bomb, Prairie Schooner, New York Tyrant, etc. He is also responsible for the collaborative project Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard), a couple of documentaries, and the conceptual pseudonym Andy Devine.