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This one-stop practical guide will show you how to write the novel that's in you bursting to get out. To make your progress easier, it comes in a handy ebook format with expert advice throughout.
For those who have always wanted to write fiction but didn't know where to start, look no further. In Need to Know? Writing Fiction, respected novelist and creative writing teacher Alan Wall lends his expertise and advice on how to tap into your creative...
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Make Your Fiction Stories Instant Hits!
Writing fiction is a fun and easy way to put your creativity skills to the test. Many people love fiction, and by writing it you can boost your creativity muscles and entertain listeners, and if your story is good enough, you may even be able to get published and makes lots of money.
However, like any craft, fiction writing requires a great deal of practice and precision to create a story that will captivate...
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More than 250,000 copies sold!
A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Writing Fiction. Janet Burroway's best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for more than three decades it has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn the craft. Now in its tenth edition, Writing Fiction is more accessible than ever for writers of all levels-inside or...
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Writing Fiction is a little pot of gold... "Screenplay" by Syd Field for film, "Writing Fiction" by James Essinger for fiction. It's that simple.'
William Osborne, novelist and screenwriter
'Writing Fiction – a user-friendly guide' is a must-read if you want to write stories to a professional standard.
It draws on the author's more than thirty years of experience as a professional writer, and on the work and ideas of writers including:
- Anthony...
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How do I begin my novel? How do I write convincing dialogue? Where can I get an idea for a story? How do I keep motivated? If youre a young writer, answers to these questions and more can be found in Writing Fiction: A Hands-On Guide for Teens. Written by a writer for writers, this book was created just for you by someone who believes in young writers and who also likes to have some fun along the way. Heres a sample of what youll find inside. Stuck...
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Robert Olen Butler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University - his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream, Butler reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual, and tells writers how to achieve the dreamspace necessary for composing honest, inspired fiction. Proposing that fiction is the exploration of the human condition with yearning as its compass, Butler...
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Best-selling author Jenna Blum has scored critical and commercial success with her novels Those Who Save Us and The Stormchasers. One of Oprah's Top Thirty Women's Writers, Blum has also taught creative writing at Boston University and master novel workshops for Grub Street Writers. Here Blum shares insights into the writing process and offers listeners the most important aspects of succeeding as an author
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You Can Write-Really! A Beginner's Guide to Writing Fiction Have you always wanted to write?
Are you looking for an extra boost of motivation?
Do you have a great story idea, but don't know how to develop it?
If you've always dreamed of writing and getting published, but have no idea where or how to start-THIS is the book for you! You Can Write-Really! is an easy guide designed for beginner writers who need a boost of motivation and simple instructions...
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Go beyond Stephen King's On Writing to master the fundamentals of great storytelling with this foundational guide that reveals the essential elements of what makes the best fiction. The Art of Creative Writing is a timeless testament to the power of dialogue and character development that is accessible for every level of writer from beginner to established author.
As in the bestselling The Art of Dramatic Writing, still considered one of the most...
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Works of art cause us to contemplate our human condition with unending fascination. They take us into another dimension, a dimension in which our understanding of the world we live in becomes richer, and our appreciation, even awe, of the power of a human hand to craft such a work, grows. In this way, the works of Leonardo, Ibsen, and Mozart enrich our understanding of the world in which we function.
The techniques required to create works of art...
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This is the stress-free guide to writing your first novel like a pro!
Learning how to write your first novel can be overwhelming. You have to master outlining, writing, revising, and so much more...and it can be scary if you've never done it before. While it seems daunting, writing your first novel is simple when you have someone experienced to help you through it.
In this writer's guide, prolific writer M.L. Ronn shares an easy step-by-step process...
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3rd Edition, Updated for 2018Writers' Tricks of the trade is like the appetizer table at a writing buffetTips, tricks and exercises in easy to read, sometimes humorous prose.Morgan St. James has written over 600 published articles about the craft and business of writing and writes columns in two editions of examiner.com. She has authored or co-authored 16 books with more in the works, and speaks from experience. St. James shares what she has learned...
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2004
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The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on earth to become a writer. But to do that he must first learn to tell the truth about himself.
The agency of revelation is the school literary contest,...
The agency of revelation is the school literary contest,...
17) Sleeping beauty
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Author Miles Van Meter is on a book tour to promote his sensational bestseller Sleeping Beauty, a true-crime account of a deeply personal subject: the attack by a serial killer that left his twin sister, Casey, in a coma. Tonight the audience waits to hear Miles discuss recent developments in his sister's case -- unaware that pieces of this complex puzzle of violence, unknown even to the author, are about to be revealed. Six years earlier, life was...
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A love story told in letters spans two world wars and follows the correspondence between a poet on the Scottish Isle of Skye and an American volunteer ambulance driver for the French Army, an affair that is discovered years later when the poet disappears.
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"Rock Paper Scissors is the latest exciting domestic thriller from the queen of the killer twist, New York Times bestselling author Alice Feeney. Think you know the person you married? Think again ... Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole...
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