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Books on Language Arts & Disciplines > Composition & Creative Writing > Fiction
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Linda Seger
[Paperback 1990]
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In this book, Linda Seger shows how to create strong, multidimensional characters in fiction, covering everything from research to character block. Interviews with today's top writers complete this essential volume.... more
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Gail Carson Levine
[Paperback 2006]
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In "Writing Magic," Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine shares her secrets of great writing. She shows how you, too, can get terrific ideas for stories, invent great beginnings and endings, write sparkling dialogue, develop memorable characters--and much, much more. She advises you about what to do when you feel... more
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Nancy Kress
[Paperback 2005]
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Each chapter is filled with examples drawn from the work of successful writers and action-and-results exercises that help readers take their lessons to the keyboard.... more
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Damon Knight
[Paperback 1997]
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Distilled from decades of teaching and practice, this book offers clear and direct advice on structure, pacing, dialogue, getting ideas, working with the unconscious, and more. Newly revised and expanded for this Third Edition, "Creating Short Fiction" is a popular and widely trusted guide to writing short stories of originality,... more
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Valerie Parv
[Paperback 2005, 2nd Edition]
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Aspiring romance writers will appreciate the industry-insider tips and practical advice offered in this fully revised and updated guide written by a top romance novelist. Step-by-step explanations to creating believable characters, handling dialogue, choosing settings, developing workable conflicts, and crafting effective plots are provided. Writers will stay on track and... more
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Jeremy Hawthorn
[Paperback 2010, 6th Edition]
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This revised, expanded and updated fifth edition of this widely used introduction to the novel, defines the basic terminology of literary critics and explains the difference between terms such as "story" vs. "plot" or "symbol" vs. "image" and explores essential concepts and approaches such as what narrative theorists mean by... more
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7.
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Raymond Obstfeld
[Paperback 2000]
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Shows how to create specific types of scenes -- action scenes, comic scenes, sex scenes and more -- then reveals how to link these scenes to form powerful novels.... more
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Scott Mc Cloud
[Paperback 2006]
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In a voice that mixes dry humor and clear, concise instruction, McCloud's cartoon narrator shows readers how to master the human condition through word and image in a brilliantly minimalist way. Comic book devotees as well as the most uninitiated will marvel at this journey into a once-underappreciated art form.... more
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Elizabeth Lyon
[Paperback 2002]
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Lyon offers novelists the wisdom of her experience as an author, book editor, writing instructor, and marketing consultant. Step-by-step, she details what editors want, what questions to ask them, and how to develop a marketing strategy. In this book, Elizabeth Lyon offers novelists the wisdom of her experience as an... more
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Billie A Williams
[Paperback 2007]
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Raymond Obstfeld
[Paperback 2001]
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Every writer struggles with trouble spots in their manuscript that "just aren't working." Obstfeld shows how seemingly fatal errors can become both manageable and fixable.... more
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Gray Hutchison
[Paperback 2007]
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After publishing more than 100 novels, Hutchison presents a writing guide that discusses character development, setting, and storylines. The author has published over one hundred novels. He wrote this book, in part, to help answer the question he so of... more
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J Hillis Miller
[Paperback 1995]
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In this brilliant and engaging book, one of America's leading literary critics explores the intricacies of narrative theory. Drawing on the mythical image of Ariadne's thread, J. Hillis Miller traces out the 'line' so often associated with narrative throu... more
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Lewis Turco
[Paperback 2004]
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Originally published in 1989, this revised and expanded edition focuses on the art and craft of writing effective dialogue in fiction, cinema, television, drama, radio, and poetry. Turco's unique technique teaches by showing: he creates a Socratic dia... more
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[Paperback 2008]
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Take a new group of clever writers, shut them up in a box of inventive brilliance, called the QI Club, and see what they can create. The result is a book of Oxford stories, a collection of short pieces, romance and crime, comedy and non-fiction, poetry an... more
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Tom Sawyer ,
Arthur David Weingarten
[Paperback 1995]
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This is a veritable thesaurus of exciting plot twists and story moves that work for compositions of any genre.... more
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Wallace Martin
[Paperback 1986]
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This book ranges over the entitle spectrum of recent theories of narrative to show how they have altered our understanding not only of fiction but of nonfictional forms such as biography and historical writing.... more
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Phil Truman
[Paperback 2003]
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Michael Newton
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Inaccurate information about weapons can kill a writer's story before a potential publisher has even finished reading the manuscript. In this books, writers will find all the information they need to make their mystery novel believable.... more
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By
Orson Scott Card
[Paperback 1999]
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For more than 10 years, this successful series has helped writers improve their work -- one element at a time. Featuring quality instruction from award-winning authors, each book focuses on a key facet of fiction writing, making it easy for writers to fin... more
