How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling
10 best books like How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling (James N. Frey): Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days, Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting, Writing the Breakout Novel, Stein on Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies, Becoming a Writer, Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish, On Becoming a Novelist, The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
| Author | Natalie Goldberg |
| ISBN | 1590303164 |
No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days
| Author | Chris Baty |
| ISBN | 0811845052 |
Let Chris Baty, founder of the rockin' literary marathon National Novel Writing Month (a.k.a. NaNoWriMo), guide you through four exciting weeks of...
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
| Author | Renni Browne |
| ISBN | 0060545690 |
Hundreds of books have been written on the art of writing. Here at last is a book by two professional editors to teach writers the techniques of the editing trade that turn...
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
| Author | Robert McKee |
| ISBN | 0060391685 |
Writing the Breakout Novel
| Author | Donald Maass |
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...
Stein on Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies
| Author | Sol Stein |
| ISBN | 0312254210 |
Becoming a Writer
| Author | Dorothea Brande |
| ISBN | 0874771641 |
Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish
| Author | James Scott Bell |
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...
| Author | John Gardner |
| ISBN | 0393320030 |
The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
| Author | Noah Lukeman |
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...
| Author | Nancy Kress |
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 | Ralph Keyes |
| ISBN | 0805074678 |
Katherine Anne Porter called courage "the first essential" for a writer. "I have to talk myself into bravery with every sentence," agreed Cynthia Ozick, "sometimes every syllable."...
| Author | Orson Scott Card |
This book is a set of tools: literary crowbars, chisels, mallets, pliers and tongs. Use them to pry, chip, yank and sift good characters out of the place where they live in your memory, your imagination and your soul.
Award-winning...
| Author | Jack M. Bickham |
| ISBN | 0898798213 |
When you write fiction, you march onto a minefield. This book gives you a map.
Oh, what tricky terrain you're traveling! You must reckon with: Character, Conflict, Point of View, Dialogue, Editors, Editors, and Editors, who--by returning...
| Author | Gloria Kempton |
| ISBN | 1582972893 |
When should your character talk, what should (or shouldn't) he say, and when should he say it? How do you know when dialogue—or the lack thereof—is dragging down your scene? How do you fix character who speaks with the laconic wit of the Terminator?
Write...
Creative Companion: How to Free Your Creative Spirit
| Author | S.A.R.K. |
| ISBN | 0890876517 |