Getting Into Character: Seven Secrets a Novelist Can Learn from Actors

9 best books like Getting Into Character: Seven Secrets a Novelist Can Learn from Actors (Brandilyn Collins): The Elements of Style, Writing the Breakout Novel, Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish, The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller, Euthyphro, The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, Write Your Novel From the Middle: A New Approach for Plotters, Pantsers and Everyone in Between, Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

The Elements of Style

Author	William Strunk Jr.
ISBN	0205313426

This book is good for the following things:

1. Propping up a short table leg

2. Lining a bird cage

3. Building a fire

4. Using as a coaster for cold drinks



I devoted some of my grammar thesis to criticizing this book, and it was time well spent.


Geoff...

Writing the Breakout Novel

Author

Donald Maass

Take your fiction to the next level!

Maybe you're a first-time novelist looking for practical guidance. Maybe you've already been published, but your latest effort is stuck in mid-list limbo. Whatever the case may be, author and literary agent Donald Maass can show you how to take your prose...

Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish

Author

James Scott Bell

Craft an Engaging Plot

How does plot influence story structure? What's the difference between plotting for commercial and literary fiction? How do you revise a plot or structure that's gone off course?

With "Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure," you'll discover the answers...

The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

Author

Noah Lukeman

The First Five Pages

Editors always tell novice writers that the first few pages of a manuscript are crucial in the publishing process -- and it's true. If an editor or agent (or reader) loses interest after a page or two, you've lost him or her completely, even if the middle of your novel is brilliant...

The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller

Author	John Truby
ISBN	0865479518

John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, and his students have gone on to pen some of Hollywood's most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and Shrek. The Anatomy of Story is his long-awaited first book, and it shares all...

Euthyphro

Author	Plato
ISBN	1853991325

Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaimed authority on matters of piety and the will of the gods. Socrates, desiring instruction in these matters, converses with Euthyphro, but as usual, the man who professes to know nothing fares better...

The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen

Author	Edward Copeland
ISBN	0521498678

Leading scholars present a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to Jane Austen's works in the contexts of her contemporary world, and of present-day critical discourse. Beside discussions of Austen's novels and letters there are essays on religion, politics, class-consciousness, publishing...

Write Your Novel From the Middle: A New Approach for Plotters, Pantsers and Everyone in Between

Author

James Scott Bell

A powerful secret, and a fresh approach to writing bestselling fiction!

What's the best way to write a "next level" novel? Some writers start at the beginning and let the story unfold without a plan. They are called "pantsers," because they write by the "seat of the pants."

Other writers...

Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

Author	Lisa Cron
ISBN	1607748908

Following on the heels of Lisa Cron's breakout first book, Wired for Story, this writing guide reveals how to use cognitive storytelling strategies to build a scene-by-scene blueprint for a riveting story.

Story Genius is a foolproof program that saves writers from penning hundreds of pages...