Writing - Fiction Writing
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The Craft of Scene Writing: Beat by Beat to a Better Script
$18.95 Add to cartA professional screenwriter’s master class in writing the most critical and challenging script element–the individual scene. No one comes out of a movie talking about structure. What audiences love a… [more below]
- Author: Mercurio, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1610353307
- Language: English
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The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes
$15.00 Read moreFiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible, asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a story determines its meaning, and one of the
- Series: Art Of…
- Author: Silber, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 23 2009
- ISBN10: 1555975305
- Language: English
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How To Write A Historical Novel And Love It
$12.99 Add to cartUnlock your inner historical novelist…
Got a historical novel inside you desperate to get out? Discover the tactics and methods to bring it into the world.
Award-winning, best-selling author, TL Clar
- Author: Clark, Tl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0995611777
- Language: English
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Land of the Dead: Lessons from the Underworld on Storytelling and Living
$27.99 Read moreFrom Brian McDonald, an expert on the narrative arts, comes a remarkable non-fiction graphic novel about the art of storytelling.
There is wisdom in the land of the dead, for it is the place that all s- Author: McDonald, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1626727317
- Language: English
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How Fiction Works (Tenth Anniversary Edition): Updated and Expanded
$19.00 Add to cart10th anniversary revised edition with new Introduction
James Wood’s How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction–an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasti- Author: Wood, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1250183928
- Language: English
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How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America
$19.99 Add to cartFrom 70 of the most successful mystery writers in the business, an invaluable guide to crafting mysteries–from character development and plot to procedurals and thrillers–“this is a writing guide th… [more below]
- Author: Mystery Writers of America
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1982149442
- Language: English
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Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club
$18.99 Read moreWinner of the H.R.F. Keating Award for best biographical/critical book related to crime fiction, and nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe and Macavity Awards for Best Critical/Biographical book.
Ninety c
- Author: Edwards, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0008380163
- Language: English
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Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
$18.95 Add to cartThey say writing is rewriting. So why does the second part get such short shrift? Refuse To Be Done will guide you through every step of the novel writing process, from getting started on those first … [more below]
- Author: Bell, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1641293411
- Language: English
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The Chicago Guide to Copyediting Fiction
$18.00 Add to cartA book-world veteran offers the first copyediting guide focused exclusively on fiction.
Although The Chicago Manual of Style is widely used by writers and editors of all stripes, it is primarily conc- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Schneider, Amy J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 022676737X
- Language: English
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Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
$16.95 Add to cartThis national bestseller is “a significant contribution to discussions of the art of fiction and a necessary challenge to received views about whose stories are told, how they are told and for whom th
- Author: Salesses, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 19, 2021
- ISBN10: 1948226804
- Language: English
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Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
$16.95 Add to cartAN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Memoir meets craft master class in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of how we think and write about intimate experiences–“a must read for a- Author: Febos, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1646220854
- Language: English
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Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the celebrated Ursula K. Le Guin, “a writer of enormous intelligence and wit, a master storyteller” (Boston Globe), the revised and updated edition of her classic guide to the essentials of a wri
- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01, 2015
- ISBN10: 0544611616
- Language: English
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You: The Story: A Writer’s Guide to Craft Through Memory
$19.99 Add to cartThe nonfiction debut by #1 New York Times bestselling and Carnegie Medal-winning author Ruta Sepetys. Perfect for fans of Burn After Writing and Bird by Bird.
Life is story in motion. Each day, you ad- Author: Sepetys, Ruta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593524381
- Language: English
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Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
$18.99 Add to cartHundreds 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 promising manuscripts into
- Author: Browne, Renni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 13, 2004
- ISBN10: 0060545690
- Language: English
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Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
$15.00 Add to cartThe long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher
Draft No. 4 is a master class on the writer’s craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John Mc- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 04, 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537976
- Language: English
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Gentle Writing Advice: How to Be a Writer Without Destroying Yourself
$18.00 Add to cartFinally–a book of writing advice that accounts for all of the messy, perverse, practical, and inexplicable parts of being a human who writes
The truth is that all of the “writing rules” you’ve learne- Author: Wendig, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1440301204
- Language: English
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Plot: The Art of Story
$8.95 Add to cartWhy do some books grab you from the very first line? What did Aristotle have to say about the art of telling stories? Is there a secret structure to stories known by all the best writers? In this neat… [more below]
- Series: Wooden Books North America Editions
- Author: Jones, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1952178177
- Language: English
