Creating Short Fiction: The Classic Guide to Writing Short Fiction
10 best books like Creating Short Fiction: The Classic Guide to Writing Short Fiction (Damon Knight): Techniques of the Selling Writer, Beginnings, Middles & Ends, Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, The Fire in Fiction: Passion, Purpose and Techniques to Make Your Novel Great, The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life, Scene & Structure, Manuscript Makeover: Revision Techniques No Fiction Writer Can Afford to Ignore, Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print, Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy, Booklife: Strategies and Survival Tips for the 21st-Century Writer
| Author | Dwight V. Swain |
| ISBN | 0806111917 |
Techniques of the Selling Writer provides solid instruction for people who want to write and sell fiction, not just to talk and study about it. It gives the background, insights, and specific procedures needed by all beginning writers. Here one can learn how to group words into copy that moves, movement...
Get your stories off to a roaring start. Keep them tight and crisp throughout. Conclude them with a wallop.
Is the story or novel you've been carrying around in your head the same one you see on the page? Or does the dialogue suddenly sound flat and predictable? Do the events seem to ramble?
Translating...
| Author | Janet Burroway |
| ISBN | 0321277368 |
The most widely used and respected text in its field, Writing Fiction, 7e guides the novice story writer from first inspiration to final revision. A bestseller through six editions, Writing Fiction by novelists Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French explores the elements of fiction, providing...
Discover the Difference Between a So-So Manuscript and a Novel Readers Can't Forget
We've all read them: novels by our favorite authors that disappoint. Uninspired and lifeless, we wonder what happened. Was the author in a hurry? Did she have a bad year? Has he lost interest altogether?
Something...
| Author | Noah Lukeman |
| ISBN | 0312309287 |
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...
| Author | Jack M. Bickham |
| ISBN | 0898799066 |
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...
Manuscript Makeover: Revision Techniques No Fiction Writer Can Afford to Ignore
| Author | Elizabeth Lyon |
| ISBN | 0399533958 |
Professional editor and author Elizabeth Lyon offers aspiring novelists the guidance and instruction they need to write and edit well-crafted and compelling stories that will stand out from the competition and attract the attention of agents and publishers, including:
- Stand-out style...
| Author | Lawrence Block |
| ISBN | 0898792088 |
Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel is a book about writing by the legendary Lawrence Block.
Lawrence Block sent me this in an email a couple weeks ago, asking me if I was interested in reviewing his upcoming book about writing. Once I changed into pants that weren't as soaked in my urine,...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0312089260 |
Do you dream of -
Crossing the galaxies?
Living in the far future?
Entertaining millions with your imagination?
This book can help make those dreams come true!
Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy brings you expert advice on how to craft and market tales...
| Author | Jeff VanderMeer |
| ISBN | 1892391902 |
The world has changed, and with it the craft of writing. In addition to the difficulties of putting pen to paper, authors must now contend with a slew of new media. This has forever altered the relationship between writers and their readers, their publishers, and their work. In an era when authors are...
| Author | Josip Novakovich |
| ISBN | 1884910394 |
This book exemplifies the best of a writing workshop: thought-provoking instruction, a charismatic teacher and illuminating examples from classic and contemporary literary masters.
Each chapter explores a different aspect of the art of fiction and ends with a series of writing exercises...
| Author | Robert J. Ray |
| ISBN | 0823084507 |
Who doesn't dream of writing a novel while holding on to their day job? Robert J. Ray and co-author Bret Norris can help readers do just that, with this practical and accessible step-by-step guide to completing a novel in just a year's worth of weekends.
THE WEEKEND NOVELIST shows writers at...
| Author | Alexander Steele |
| ISBN | 1582343306 |
Gotham Writers' Workshop has mastered the art of teaching the craft of writing in a way that is practical, accessible, and entertaining. Now the techniques of this renowned school are available in this book.
Here you'll find: - The fundamental elements of fiction craft-character, plot, point...
| Author | Ansen Dibell |
| ISBN | 0898799465 |
"There are ways to create, fix, steer and discover plots--ways which, over a writing life, you'd eventually puzzle out for yourself," writes Ansen Dibell. "They aren't laws. They're an array of choices, things to try, once you've put a name to the particular problem you're facing now."
That's...
Here is a book about the craft of writing fiction that is thoroughly useful from the first to the last page—whether the reader is a beginner, a seasoned writer, or a teacher of writing. You will see how a work takes form and shape once you grasp the principles of momentum, tension, and immediacy. "Tension,"...
| Author | Jerry Cleaver |
| ISBN | 0312302762 |
The Only Writing Book You'll Ever Need
From the legendary creator of the Writer's Loft in Chicago, comes a writing course for those who want to see results now. Immediate Fiction covers the entire process of writing including manuscript preparation, time management, finding an idea, getting...
| Author | Kenneth Atchity |
| ISBN | 0393312631 |
Expanding his focus now, Kenneth Atchity adds a substantial new chapter, "Breaking into Show Business," and new material about recapturing the "high" of creativity and maintaining confidence despite setbacks. He shows you how to transform anxiety into "productive elation," how to separate vision...
| Author | Alice LaPlante |
| ISBN | 0393061647 |
The Making of a Story is a fresh and inspiring guide to the basics of creative writing—both fiction and creative nonfiction. Its hands-on, completely accessible approach walks writers through each stage of the creative process, from the initial triggering idea to the revision of the final manuscript....
| Author | Robert Olen Butler |
| ISBN | 0802142575 |
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...
If you are interested in trying your hand at writing fiction (particularly science fiction) or if you just have an interest in writing generally I suggest that you find this book at your nearest bookstore and read the last chapter there, in the store, and save yourself the money. There are some good little...
| Author | Stephen L. Gillett |
| ISBN | 0898797071 |
CURRENTLY READING:
Okay, only page 7 and I've already found a big error. The author says that the diameter of the earth is less than one millionth its distance from the sun. In km that's 12,756/149,598,000=0.00008, or less than one TEN-THOUSANDTH.
He then says even the diameter of...
| Author | Jeff Gerke |
| ISBN | 1582979928 |
What's more important to a story: a gripping plot or compelling characters? Literary-minded novelists argue in favor of character-based novels while commercial novelists argue in favor of plot-based stories, but the truth of the matter is this: The best fiction is rich in both.
Enter Plot Versus...
| Author | William Noble |
| ISBN | 0898799074 |
What makes a book a page-turner? How do you grab your readers 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...
