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Make a Scene: Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time

10 best books like Make a Scene: Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time (Jordan E. Rosenfeld): Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print, 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, How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling, Beginnings, Middles & Ends, Story Engineering: Character Development, Story Concept, Scene Construction, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller, Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success

Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
AuthorRenni Browne
ISBN0060545690
"A superb tutorial for anyone wanting to learn from pros how to polish fiction writing with panache."-- Library Journal

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...
Writing the Breakout Novel
AuthorDonald 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...
Stein on Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies
AuthorSol Stein
ISBN0312254210
Stein on Writing provides immediately useful advice for all writers of fiction and nonfiction, whether they are newcomers or old hands, students or instructors, amateurs or professionals. As the always clear and direct Stein explains here, "This is not a book of theory. It is a book of usable solutions--how...
Becoming a Writer
AuthorDorothea Brande
ISBN0874771641
Refreshingly slim, beautifully written and deliciously elegant, Dorothea Brande's Becoming a Writer remains evergreen decades after it was first written. Brande believed passionately that although people have varying amounts of talent, anyone can write. It's just a question of finding the "writer's...
Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish
AuthorJames 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...
How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling
AuthorJames N. Frey
ISBN0312010443
Written in a clear, crisp, accessible style, this book is perfect for beginners as well as professional writers who need a crash course in the down-to-earth basics of storytelling. Talent and inspiration can't be taught, but Frey does provide scores of helpful suggestions and sensible rules and principles.

An...
Beginnings, Middles & Ends
AuthorNancy Kress
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...
Story Engineering: Character Development, Story Concept, Scene Construction
AuthorLarry Brooks
ISBN1582979987
I went into this book having read the other reviews, so I knew what I was getting. I agree whole-heartedly with a number of things other people have said:

~It drowns itself in metaphors and analogies.

~The author comes off as being hugely egotistical.

~The first 10 -15 % of the...
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
AuthorJohn Truby
ISBN0865479518
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...
Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success
AuthorK.M. Weiland
ISBN0978924622
Writers often look upon outlines with fear and trembling. But when properly understood and correctly wielded, the outline is one of the most powerful weapons in a writer’s arsenal. Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success will:

Help you choose the right type of outline for you
Guide...
Hooked: Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One & Never Lets Them Go
AuthorLes Edgerton
ISBN1582974578
*The first pages are the #1 key to acceptance or rejection of manuscripts--most agents and editors claim to make their decision on a manuscript after the very first page, which means that no writer can afford to have a weak story beginning *The first and only fiction-writing book that focuses exclusively...
The Fire in Fiction: Passion, Purpose and Techniques to Make Your Novel Great
AuthorDonald Maass
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...
Characters and Viewpoint
AuthorOrson Scott Card
Vivid and memorable characters aren't born: they have to be made.

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...
The Writer's Idea Book
AuthorJack Heffron
"Where do you get your ideas?"



It's a question and a quandary that bedevils every writer. And once you've got an idea, what then? Ideas without a plan, without a purpose, are no more than pleasant thoughts.



In The Writer's Idea Book, Jack Heffron, former senior editor...
What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers
AuthorAnne Bernays
ISBN0062720066
What If? is the first handbook for writers based on the idea that specific exercises are one of the most useful and provocative methods for mastering the art of writing fiction. With more than twenty-five years of experience teaching creative writing between them, Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter offer...
The Writer's Guide to Character Traits: Includes Profiles of Human Behaviors and Personality Types
AuthorLinda N. Edelstein
This was a good idea but completely useless. Nothing went into enough depth to be useful, but the biggest problem is that although it was written in 1999, most of the sources used were already out of date and obsolete then. She uses Masters & Johnson from the 60's for information about homsexuality....
Dialogue: Techniques and exercises for crafting effective dialogue
AuthorGloria Kempton
ISBN1582972893
Craft Compelling Dialogue

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...
20 Master Plots: And How to Build Them
AuthorRonald B. Tobias
ISBN1582972397
Give your story a solid foundation - a plot that engages readers from start to finish! The best stories linger in the hearts and minds of readers for decades. These tales gain their power through plots that connect with the audience on both an emotional and intellectual level.Inside, Ronald B. Tobias...
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