So You Want to Write (2nd Edition)
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So You Want to Write (2nd Edition)

How to Master the Craft of Writing Fiction and Memoir

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eBook - ePub

So You Want to Write (2nd Edition)

How to Master the Craft of Writing Fiction and Memoir

About this book

A featured selection of the Writer’s Digest Book Club; chosen by The Writer Magazine  as a Best Book of the Year; compared by the American Library Association to Strunk and White’s classic The Elements of Style ; acclaimed by critics, students and teachers and adopted by universities across the country, the unique collaboration between a major American novelist and a publisher is back in a revised second edition, bigger and better than ever.

The most useful and entertaining writing book on the market, the updated second edition has new exercises and expanded essays, covering every aspect of writing and publishing fiction and memoir:

How to begin a piece so that a reader can’t put it down
How to create compelling characters
How professional writers use dialogue
How to narrow a strategy for telling the story of your life
How to write about painful material without coming off as a victim

Included are hundreds of insider tips, such as:

The seven important things when writing about loved ones
The 10 most destructive things writers do
What no one will tell you about rejection letters
FAQs about agents and how much writers really earn
What to do if your work is continually rejected

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Yes, you can access So You Want to Write (2nd Edition) by Marge Piercy,Ira Wood in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Personal Development & Authorship. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Leapfrog Press
Year
2005
Print ISBN
9780972898454
eBook ISBN
9780979641527
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Authorship

Table of contents

  1. Praise
  2. BOOKS BY MARGE PIERCY
  3. Title Page
  4. Introduction
  5. 1 - Sharpening Your Innate Skills
  6. 2 - Beginnings
  7. 3 - Characterization
  8. 4 - How to Avoid Writing Like a Victim
  9. 5 - The Uses of Dialog
  10. 6 - Plot In The Novel
  11. 7 - Personal Narrative Strategies
  12. 8 - Choosing And Manipulating Viewpoint
  13. 9 - Descriptions
  14. 10 - When You Have Research To Do
  15. 11 - A Few Genres: Historical Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, And Fantasy
  16. 12 - Writing Short Stories
  17. 13 - Titles
  18. 14 - Writing Humor: Learning Survival Techniques
  19. 15 - A Scandal In The Family
  20. 16 - Work And Other Habits
  21. 17 - Fame, Fortune, And Other Tawdry Illusions Marge Piercy
  22. 18 - The 10 Most Destructive Things Writers Can Do (to Destroy Their Careers or ...
  23. 19 - Practical Information
  24. 20 - Frequently Answered Questions
  25. Appendix I - Excerpted from The Kitchen Man, as referred to in Chapter 15
  26. Appendix II - RECOMMENDED BOOKS
  27. Index
  28. Acknowledgements
  29. A Note About The Authors
  30. ABOUT THE TYPE
  31. Are you ready to take the next step and get feedback on your work?
  32. Copyright Page