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45 Master Charactersby Victoria SchmidtISBN 1582970696 (1-58297-069-6)
Hardcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '45 Master Characters'Book summary:Every novelist, screenwriter and oral storyteller faces the challenge of creating original and exciting characters, Archetypes - mythic, cross-cultural models from which all characters originate - provide a solid foundation upon which to fashion new and vastly different story people. 45 Master Characters explores the most common male and female archetypes, provides instructions for using them to create your own original characters, and gives examples of how other authors have brought such archetypes to life in novels, film and television. Worksheets are then included for writers to develop and map the lives of their own characters. [via]
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The Art & Craft of Novel Writingby Oakley M. HallISBN 1884910025 (1-884910-02-5)
Softcover, F & W Pubns
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Art and Craft of Novel Writingby Oakley M. HallISBN 188491053X (1-884910-53-X)
Softcover, F & W Publications, Incorporated
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The Art of Fictionby John GardnerISBN 0679734031 (0-679-73403-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Fiction'Book summary:This classic guide, from the renowned novelist and professor, has helped transform generations of aspiring writers into masterful writersand will continue to do so for many years to come.
John Gardner was almost as famous as a teacher of creative writing as he was for his own works. In this practical, instructive handbook, based on the courses and seminars that he gave, he explains, simply and cogently, the principles and techniques of good writing. Gardners lessons, exemplified with detailed excerpts from classic works of literature, sweep across a complete range of topicsfrom the nature of aesthetics to the shape of a refined sentence. Written with passion, precision, and a deep respect for the art of writing, Gardners book serves by turns as a critic, mentor, and friend. Anyone who has ever thought of taking the step from reader to writer should begin here. [via] -
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writersby John GardnerISBN 0394504690 (0-394-50469-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Beginnings, Middles & Endsby Nancy KressISBN 0898799058 (0-89879-905-8)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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Bestseller : Secrets of Successful Writingby Celia BrayfieldISBN 1857023838 (1-85702-383-8)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Lifeby Anne LamottISBN 0385480016 (0-385-48001-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life'Book summary:Think you've got a book inside of you? Anne Lamott isn't afraid to help you let it out. She'll help you find your passion and your voice, beginning from the first really crummy draft to the peculiar letdown of publication. Readers will be reminded of the energizing books of writer Natalie Goldberg and will be seduced by Lamott's witty take on the reality of a writer's life, which has little to do with literary parties and a lot to do with jealousy, writer's block and going for broke with each paragraph. Marvelously wise and best of all, great reading. [via]
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Characters and Viewpointby Orson Scott CardISBN 0898799279 (0-89879-927-9)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Characters and Viewpoint'Book summary:Orson Scott Card presents practical, in-depth instruction on how fiction writers can make the best choices in creating characters and handling viewpoint. The author shows how to put original yet realistic people into fiction.' [via]
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Complete Guide to Editing Your Fictionby Michael SeidmanISBN 1582971625 (1-58297-162-5)
Softcover, F & W Publications, Incorporated
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The Complete Guide to Writing Fantasyby Darin ParkISBN 1896944094 (1-896944-09-4)
Softcover, Dragon Moon Pr
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The Complete Handbook of Novel Writingby Jack Heffron, Meg LederISBN 1582971595 (1-58297-159-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing'Book summary:A collection of articles from Writer's Digest and the Market books. The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing covers the basics of a best-selling topic: novel writing. From crafting a story and using descriptive language to breaking through writer's block, mastering genres and getting an agent, this book addresses the spectrum of issues pertinent to fiction writers. Readers will find a number of pieces by best-selling authors, including Janet Fitch, Terry Brooks, Sue Grafton, John Updike, Richard Russon, Evan Hunter, and J. A. Jance, and interviews with others, including Kurt Vonnegut and Margaret Atwood. Both novice and experienced writers will find advice in this book that speaks to their dreams of getting their novels published. [via]
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Conflict, Action and Suspenseby William NobleISBN 0898799074 (0-89879-907-4)
Softcover, F & W Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Conflict, Action and Suspense'Book summary:What makes a book a page-turner? How do you grab your readers right from the start and hold them through the last sentence? How do you make your plot twist and turn and keep the action moving without losing continuity?
You do it by generating drama and developing it using conflict, action and suspense. You make your reader burn to know what's going to happen next. You create tension...and build it...to the breaking point.
William Noble shows you how to intensify that pressure throughout your story. You'll learn exactly what constitutes conflict, action and suspense, how they relate to other important ingredients in your story, and - perhaps most important - how to manipulate them.
Through thorough, step-by-step instruction, you'll learn how to...
- set the stage with techniques and devices that enhance drama
- introduce suspense from the very beginning of your story
- build suspense through cliff-hangers, dialogue, mood, character
- development, point of view, subtlety and indirection, and time and place
- bring all that conflict, action and suspense to a gripping conclusion
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The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sellsby Ben BovaISBN 0898796008 (0-89879-600-8)
Hardcover, F & W Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells'Book summary:Ben Nova, best-selling novelist and former editor of Analog and Omni magazines, guides you through the major elements of science-fiction storytelling: character, background, conflict, and plot. Bova has received the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor six times. [via]
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Creating Character Emotionsby Ann HoodISBN 1884910335 (1-884910-33-5)
Softcover, Writers Digest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Creating Character Emotions'Book summary:In this unique book, Ann Hood will help you find fresh, creative images, words and gestures to evoke feelings in your fiction. In 36 mini-lessons," Hood sheds new light on love, hate, fear, grief, guilt, hope, jealousy and other major emotions. Each lesson offers instruction on rendering that particular sentiment; "good" and "bad" examples illustrating how writers have succeeded and where others have gone wrong; and imaginative exercises for putting the feeling into words.
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Creating Charactersby Dwight V. SwainISBN 0898796628 (0-89879-662-8)
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Creating Fictionby Julie CheckowayISBN 1884910513 (1-884910-51-3)
Softcover, F & W Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Creating Fiction'Book summary:Readers will learn how to revise and edit from Jane Smiley. They will find ways to evoke time and place from Richard Russo. Charles Johnson offers a passionate discussion of the writer's apprenticeship. Lan Samantha Chang presents strategies for structuring stories. Charles Baxter explores tone and emphasis. The 24 contributors to Creating Fiction - members of the Associated Writing Programs - have won awards such as the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Magazine Award. The have led workshops, published stories and novels, and now their experience and wisdom can be found in one landmark book. Their sage advice, combined with more than 100 writing exercises, assure that Creating Fiction will engage and delight readers at any level of experience. [via]
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The Fantasy Writer's Companion: The Complete Guide To Writing Fantasyby Tee Morris, Valerie Griswold-FordISBN 1896944159 (1-896944-15-9)
Softcover, Dragon Moon Pr
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Fast Fiction: Creating Fiction in Five Minutesby Roberta AllenISBN 1884910270 (1-884910-27-0)
Hardcover, F & W Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fast Fiction: Creating Fiction in Five Minutes'Book summary:Gather your writing utensils, set the timer to five minutes, and write a short short story. Do not think. Do not judge. Just write. You'll be amazed with what you come up with. The rest, says Roberta Allen, is merely a matter of rewriting and refining. There's something very appealing about the short short form (defined by critic Irving Howe as "a moment rendered in its wink of immediacy" and limited here to 1,000 words). As in poetry, every word and punctuation mark counts. Your characters' histories have to be delivered, if at all, with just a sliver of language. The form is elegant in the way a mathematical proof can be elegant--beautiful and economical--and the examples Allen uses, from the works of Anton Chekhov, Carolyn Forché, Mark Strand, and others, are sublime. (The examples from her students are less compelling, and one does tire of trying to keep her many students straight.)
The center section of the book comprises a nice selection of exercises to get you started. One involves writing stories from photographs; another has you choose one item from a list (such as "a broken promise," "something that was stolen," "a party," "something that hasn't happened yet," "a child," and "a secret") and write a story about it.
The third part of the book, in which Allen makes an argument for using her method to write a novel in five-minute bites, is shakier. Writing longer fiction generally requires some kind of flow that this method doesn't allow for. Using this method for that purpose would require that a lot of energy to be spent creating connective tissue. Even still, the five-minute method would be useful for tapping the unconscious, working through problem spots, and getting going in the morning. After all, doesn't that page look much more inviting once it has some words on it? [via]
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Fiction: The Art and Craft of Writing and Getting Publishedby Michael SeidmanISBN 0938817469 (0-938817-46-9)
Softcover, Pomegranate Press, Limited
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Fiction Writer's Workshopby Josip NovakovichISBN 1884910394 (1-884910-39-4)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fiction Writer's Workshop'Book summary:Master the Elements of the Writing Workshop
The great paradox of the writing life is that to be a good writer, you must be both interested in the world around you and comfortable working in solitude for hours on end. Fiction Writer's Workshop, Second Edition, is designed to help you foster a strong sense of independenceof being and thinking on your own, of becoming self-evaluative without being self-criticalin order to accomplish what others seek in classroom groups.
In this comprehensive guide, award-winning writer and teacher Josip Novakovich explores every aspect of the art of fiction and provides all the tools and techniques you'll need to develop day-to-day discipline as well as a personal writing style, such as:
- More than 100 writing exercises, including dozens that are new to this edition, that challenge you to experiment with diverse writing styles
- Specific statements of purpose for each exercise, to help guide you and instruct you at every step of the creative process
- Self-critique questions to help you assess your work and identify strengths and weaknesses before moving on to the next lesson
- The full text of eight acclaimed short stories, with analysis and exercises, to provide models for your own writing and help reinforce the lessons you've learned
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First Draft In 30 Days: A Novel Writer's System for Building a Complete and Cohesive Manuscriptby Karen WiesnerISBN 1582972966 (1-58297-296-6)
Softcover, Writers Digest Books
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Say goodbye to writing and rewriting with no results. Startingand finishingyour novel has never been easier!
First Draft in 30 Days provides you with a sure-fire system to reduce time-intensive rewrites and avoid writing detours. Award-winning author Karen S. Wiesner's 30-day method shows you how to create an outline so detailed and complete that it actually doubles as your first draft. Flexible and customizable, this revolutionary system can be modified to fit any writer's approach and style. Plus, comprehensive and interactive worksheets make the process seem less like work and more like a game. This invaluable resource also includes:
- Itemized and flexible schedules to keep you focused each and every day
- Dozens of detailed worksheets to guide you through the outlining process
- Completed sample worksheets inspired by best-selling novels
- Tips for outlining projects already in development
- Brainstorming techniques to keep you motivated
- Goal sheets for gettingand keepingyour career on track
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Holy Places & Temples of Indiaby John HowleyISBN 0965385809 (0-9653858-0-9)
Softcover, Ten Speed Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holy Places & Temples of India'Book summary:India has a vast array of cultures, religions and interests. But many people miss the real meaning and value of India-the spiritual side. This is not due to a lack of interest, but because it is difficult to find an easily understandable book on this subject. This book is different. It goes deeper into the heart of India-its spiritual side. What yogis and ascetics have been realizing for centuries. [via]
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How to Write a Bestseller in Forty Days or Less: An Agent's Guide to Writing a Novelby Barbara S. DeboltISBN 0962601101 (0-9626011-0-1)
Softcover, Book World Inc
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How to Write & Sell Your First Novelby Oscar Collier, Frances Spatz LeightonISBN 0898797705 (0-89879-770-5)
Softcover, F & W Pubns
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How to Write a Romance for the New Market and Get Publishedby Kathryn FalkISBN 1885478461 (1-885478-46-1)
Hardcover, Genesis Pr Inc
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How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasyby Orson Scott CardISBN 158297103X (1-58297-103-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy'Book summary:Learn to write science fiction and fantasy from a master
You've always dreamed of writing science fiction and fantasy tales that pull readers into extraordinary new worlds and fantastic conflicts. Best-selling author Orson Scott Card shows you how it's done, distilling years of writing experience and publishing success into concise, no-nonsense advice. You'll learn how to:
- utilize story elements that define the science fiction and fantasy genres
- build, populate, and dramatize a credible, inviting world your readers will want to explore
- develop the rules" of time, space and magic that affect your world and its inhabitants
- construct a compelling story by developing ideas, characters, and events that keep readers turning pages
- find the markets for speculative fiction, reach them, and get published
- submit queries, write cover letters, find an agent, and live the life of a writer
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Making Shapely Fictionby Jerome SternISBN 039332124X (0-393-32124-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making Shapely Fiction'Book summary:This book is different from other books on writing. You can start writing serious fiction from the first page -- because, as Jerome Stern makes clear, learning to write spontaneously is the first step to writing well. As you begin to grasp the principle of momentum, tension and immediacy, you'll find your fiction has shape and form. You'll discover how to "write what you know," and avoid the traps and pitfalls awaiting fledgeling authors. A cross-referenced Alphabet for Writers includes incisive entries for such writerly concerns as Anti-Heroes, Dialogue, Sex, and Style. Whether you're a beginning, a seasoned professional, or a teacher of the craft, you already know there are no rules in writing ficton . . .but Jerome Stern will inspire you to find your personal path. [via]
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Malicious Intent: A Writer's Guide to How Murderers, Robbers, Rapists and Other Criminal Thinkby Sean P. MacTireISBN 1582971579 (1-58297-157-9)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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Mystery Writer's Handbookby Mystery Writers of AmericaISBN 0911654410 (0-911654-41-0)
Hardcover, Writer's digest
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The Novel Writer's Toolkitby Bob MayerISBN 1582973202 (1-58297-320-2)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Novel Writer's Toolkit'Book summary:Here's the book writers have been waiting for! Covering every aspect of the creative journey, Living the Writing Life shows readers how to:
*Develop salable ideas
*Turn ideas into stories
*Set a writing schedule and stick to it
*Conduct accurate research
*Dissect best-sellers in order to discover what makes them work
*Develop compelling characters and plot
*Write dialogue that sounds real and engaging
*Find an agent or an editor who will help publish your work
*Put their ideas into story form
*Understand the submission and publishing process
*Promote their work
*Stay alive and inspired through it allAdvice is given in a straightforward and usable manner, laying out and examining all of the tools available to writers, from imagination to technology. [via]
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Novelists Essential Guide to Crafting Scenesby Raymond ObstfeldISBN 0898799732 (0-89879-973-2)
Softcover, Writers Digest Books
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Novelists Essential Guide to Creating Plotby J. Madison DavisISBN 0898799848 (0-89879-984-8)
Softcover, F & W Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Novelists Essential Guide to Creating Plot'Book summary:This book covers the most popular element among our fiction-writing audience: plot. Appealing to novelists of any stripe. The Novelist's Essential Guide to Creating Plot allows readers to focus on and examine in depth the structure of the novel - either one they're currently working on or one that they are planning. Light in tone and friendly to the beginner, Davis' instruction is accessible and practical, guiding readers to implement the lessons of the text in their novels. Readers will learn how to increase the intensity of their plots, enrich their work with multiple and parallel plots, and weave in subplots, leitmotifs, backstories and more. From planning the plot to polishing it, Davis covers every aspect of how the plot works in concert with the other elements of fiction writing and putting plot into perspective, allowing the reader to more clearly understand how novels are shaped and structured. [via]
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craftby Stephen KingISBN 1416549862 (1-4165-4986-2)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Writing'Book summary:Short and snappy as it is, Stephen King's On Writing really contains two books: a fondly sardonic autobiography and a tough-love lesson for aspiring novelists. The memoir is terrific stuff, a vivid description of how a writer grew out of a misbehaving kid. You're right there with the young author as he's tormented by poison ivy, gas-passing babysitters, uptight schoolmarms, and a laundry job nastier than Jack London's. It's a ripping yarn that casts a sharp light on his fiction. This was a child who dug Yvette Vickers from Attack of the Giant Leeches, not Sandra Dee. "I wanted monsters that ate whole cities, radioactive corpses that came out of the ocean and ate surfers, and girls in black bras who looked like trailer trash." But massive reading on all literary levels was a craving just as crucial, and soon King was the published author of "I Was a Teen-Age Graverobber." As a young adult raising a family in a trailer, King started a story inspired by his stint as a janitor cleaning a high-school girls locker room. He crumpled it up, but his writer wife retrieved it from the trash, and using her advice about the girl milieu and his own memories of two reviled teenage classmates who died young, he came up with Carrie. King gives us lots of revelations about his life and work. The kidnapper character in Misery, the mind-possessing monsters in The Tommyknockers, and the haunting of the blocked writer in The Shining symbolized his cocaine and booze addiction (overcome thanks to his wife's intervention, which he describes). "There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing."
King also evokes his college days and his recovery from the van crash that nearly killed him, but the focus is always on what it all means to the craft. He gives you a whole writer's "tool kit": a reading list, writing assignments, a corrected story, and nuts-and-bolts advice on dollars and cents, plot and character, the basic building block of the paragraph, and literary models. He shows what you can learn from H.P. Lovecraft's arcane vocabulary, Hemingway's leanness, Grisham's authenticity, Richard Dooling's artful obscenity, Jonathan Kellerman's sentence fragments. He explains why Hart's War is a great story marred by a tin ear for dialogue, and how Elmore Leonard's Be Cool could be the antidote.
King isn't just a writer, he's a true teacher. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Softcover, Pocket Books - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft: ISBN 0684853523 (0-684-85352-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft: ISBN 0743204360 (0-7432-0436-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - On Writing: ISBN 1416549862 (1-4165-4986-2)
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Plotby Ansen DibellISBN 0898799465 (0-89879-946-5)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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Plot & Structure: (Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips REaders From Start to finish)by James Scott BellISBN 158297294X (1-58297-294-X)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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The Plot Thickensby Noah LukemanISBN 0312309287 (0-312-30928-7)
Softcover, Griffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Plot Thickens'Book summary:As a literary agent, Noah Lukeman hears thousands of book pitches a year. Often the stories sound great in concept, but never live up to their potential on the page. Lukeman shows beginning and advanced writers how to implement the fundamentals of successful plot development, such as character building and heightened suspense and conflict. Writers will find it impossible to walk away from this invaluable guide---a veritable fiction-writing workshop---without boundless new ideas.[via]More editions of The Plot Thickens:
The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Lifeby Noah LukemanISBN 0312284675 (0-312-28467-5)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Pocket Muse: Ideas and Inspirations for Writingby Monica WoodISBN 1582973229 (1-58297-322-9)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pocket Muse: Ideas & Inspirations for Writing'Book summary:According to Monica Wood, every writer needs two critics: one who offers unconditional praise and another who tells only truth. Wood's Pocket Muse does both--"on some pages you get a pat on the head, on others a kick in the seat"--and more. Every page of this pretty little book is devoted to helping you "jumpstart a writing session, inspire confidence, or strengthen your resolve." There are intriguing writing exercises, thought-provoking photographs, offbeat quotations from writers, enticing unfinished sentences, mini writing lessons, quirky word lists, stories from the writing trenches, and a generous dose of encouragement. "Write about a noise--or a silence--that won't go away," Wood suggests. "Someone has left a note on a car windshield," she offers. Books of this sort are often forced, or cute, or more about spirituality than writing. Not The Pocket Muse. It is a lively, appealing companion for a writer in need of a good nudge. --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Power and Place: Indian Education in Americaby Vine Deloria, Daniel WildcatISBN 155591859X (1-55591-859-X)
Softcover, Fulcrum Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Power and Place: Indian Education in America'Book summary:Power and Place examines the issues facing Native American students as they progress through the schools, colleges, and on into professions. This collection of sixteen essays is at once philosophic, practical, and visionary.[via]More editions of Power and Place: Indian Education in America:
Psychology for Screenwriters: Building Conflict in Your Scriptby William IndickISBN 0941188876 (0-941188-87-6)
Softcover, Michael Wiese Productions
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The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Lifeby Julia CameronISBN 1585420093 (1-58542-009-3)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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Scene and Structureby Jack M. BickhamISBN 0898799066 (0-89879-906-6)
Softcover, F & W Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scene and Structure'Book summary:Craft your fiction with scene-by-scene flow, logic and readability.
An imprisoned man receives an unexpected caller, after which everything changed..."
And the reader is hooked. But whether or not readers will stay on for the entire wild ride will depend on how well the writer structures the story, scene by scene.
This book is your game plan for success. Using dozens of examples from his own work - including Dropshot, Tiebreaker and other popular novels - Jack M. Bickham will guide you in building a sturdy framework for your novel, whatever its form or length. You'll learn how to:
- "worry" your readers into following your story to the end
- prolong your main character's struggle while moving the story ahead
- juggle cause and effect to serve your story action
- believable fiction must make more sense than real life
- every scene should end in disaster
- some scenes should be condensed, and others built big
Stealing Fire from the Gods: A Dynamic New Story Model for Writers and Filmmakersby James BonnetISBN 0941188655 (0-941188-65-5)
Softcover, Ingram Pub Services
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Stealing Fire from the Gods: The Complete Guide to Story for Writers And Filmmakersby James BonnetISBN 1932907114 (1-932907-11-4)
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Telling Lies for Fun & Profitby Lawrence BlockISBN 0688132286 (0-688-13228-6)
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The Weekend Novelistby Robert Ray, Bret NorrisISBN 0823084507 (0-8230-8450-7)
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What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writersby Anne Bernays, Pamela PainterISBN 0062720066 (0-06-272006-6)
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The Writer's Complete Crime Reference Bookby Martin RothISBN 0898795648 (0-89879-564-8)
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Writer's Complete Fantasy Reference: An Indispensible Compendium of Myth and MagicISBN 0898798663 (0-89879-866-3)
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Find This BookBook summary:The fantasy writer has a lot to keep track of: fantasy cultures and races, magic, mythological creatures, unusual punishments, castles and fortifications, and more. Plus, though fantasy writing "must be grounded in both truth and life experience if it is to work," says Terry Brooks (A Knight of the Word) in his introduction here, it must also be "as inventive and creative as the writer can make it." Find your groundedness elsewhere. This is the place to turn for all the other stuff. Need a refresher on the difference between aleuromancy (fortune cookies) and alomancy (fortune-telling by salt)? Can't remember the term for starting a new witches' coven (hiving off)? Need a glossary of particularly gruesome punishments from the Middle Ages? It's all here, and more. With illustrations of architectural structures, Maori weapons, and various types of dress and armor; and references to many more sources, should you crave even greater detail. --Jane Steinberg [via]
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The Writer's Digest Sourcebook for Building Believable Charactersby Marc McCutcheonISBN 1582970270 (1-58297-027-0)
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The Writer's Guide to Character Traitsby Linda EdelsteinISBN 1582973903 (1-58297-390-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Writer's Guide to Character Traits'Book summary:Stereotypes exist for a reason; usually, because there's an element of truth to them. With The Writer's Guide to Character Traits, psychologist-professor Linda Edelstein has created a kind of Psych 101 for Writers. Her goal is a "friendly reference" for writers who want "to create believable characters and need accurate information about personality and behavior." Sure, disparage it if you like. But wouldn't you like to know which of your protagonist's offspring is most predisposed to warming up to their new stepfather? What kind of criminal is likely to have a religious mother? The traits of people who commit suicide? Edelstein has included more than 400 lists: of traits associated with child development, psychological disorders, criminal styles, sexual styles, love and marriage, life-changing events, physical problems, career, and so on. "Even when a writer's imagination soars to places more fascinating than reality," says Edelstein, "characters must possess an internal cohesiveness; they must make sense." And let's face it: "People," she adds, "are more consistent than not." (With real-life character anecdotes from Edelstein's own work and a huge character-trait cross-referencing index at book's end.) --Jane Steinberg [via]
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The Writers Complete Fantasy Reference: An Indispensable Compendium of Myth and Magicby Writer's Digest BooksISBN 1582970262 (1-58297-026-2)
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The Writers Little Helper: Everything You Need to Know to Write Better And Get Publishedby James V. SmithISBN 1582974225 (1-58297-422-5)
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Writing Down the Bonesby Natalie GoldbergISBN 1590302613 (1-59030-261-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Writing down the Bones : Freeing the Writer Withinby Natalie GoldbergISBN 1590303164 (1-59030-316-4)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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Writing Fiction Step by Stepby Josip NovakovichISBN 1884910351 (1-884910-35-1)
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Writing the Blockbuster Novelby Albert ZuckermanISBN 1582971277 (1-58297-127-7)
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Writing the Breakout Novelby Donald Maass, Anne PerryISBN 158297182X (1-58297-182-X)
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Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook: Hands-On Helpfor Making Your Movel Stand Out and Succeedby Donald MaassISBN 158297263X (1-58297-263-X)
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Writing the Magazine Article, from Idea to Printed Pageby Society of Magazine Writers, Beatrice SchapperISBN 0911654151 (0-911654-15-1)
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Writing the Novel from Plot to Printby Lawrence BlockISBN 0898792088 (0-89879-208-8)
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