pIn his essential writing guide, iThis Year You Write Your Noveli, Walter Mosley supplied aspiring writers with the basic tools to write a novel in one year. In this com-plementary follow up, Mosley guides the writer through the elements of not just any fiction writing, but the kind of writing that transcends convention and truly stands out. How does one approach the genius of writers like Melville, Dickens, or Twain In iThe Elements of Fictioni, Walter Mosley contemplates the answer. pIn a series of instructive and conversational chapters, Mosley demonstrates how to master fiction's most essential elements character and char-acter development, plot and story, voice and narrative, context and description, and more. The result is a vivid depiction of the writing process, from the blank page to the first draft to rewriting, and rewriting again. Throughout, iThe Elements of Fictioni is enriched by brilliant demonstrative examples that Mosley himself has written here for the first time. pI