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Title: The Modern Library Writer's Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction by Stephen Koch ISBN: 0-375-75558-6 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the Best Writing Books I've Read
Comment: As a professional writer for over 25 years, I've read many writing books. The Modern Library Writer's Workshop by Stephen Koch is one of the best I've read. Although the subtitle of the book is A Guide to the Craft of Fiction, this is a book every writer who is serious about writing needs to read. Story is a critical element of nonfiction as well as fiction. Unlike many how-to-write authors, Koch avoids taking the superficial, fill-in-the blank approach. His chapters include Beginnings, The Writing Life, Shaping the Story, Making Characters Live, Inventing Your Style, the Story of the Self, Working and Reworking, and Finishing. The pages of this book are filled with ideas that helped me to look at my writing with new insight. If you can afford only one writing book, this is the one to buy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Highly recommended
Comment: In the course of writing a novel, as yet unpublished, I read many books about how to do it. Mr. Koch's book is better than any of them, with the possible exception of Stephen King's "On Writing," a book Mr. Koch praises lavishly. He gives practical advice, covering such matters as whether a writer should write every day. Having struggled with many of these matters myself, I can vouch for the usefulness of his advice. His method is unique: as he discusses each issue, he quotes what one or more famous writers have had to say about it. So you do not have to trust Mr. Koch's opinion, because you can read what Garcia Marquez or Somerset Maugham (for example) has to say about it. Sometimes he quotes writers whose advice conflicts, leaving it to you to decide between them. The book is not, however, merely a string of quotations. He blends the quotes into the exposition, averaging perhaps one per page. Some of the advice I have never read before: a warning about the usefulness of Strunk & White, for example.
Rating: 5
Summary: A book of great usefulness
Comment: I am one of those people who has been writing things for years but never got serious enough to write an actual story. Well, recently I got serious enough. I checked out a stack of writing books from the library as well as pulled out what I already had at home. There was a lot of good advice in these books. But Koch's book described the inner problems I had that were preventing me from progressing, and did so consistenly. It's one of those books that you read and find yourself nodding in agreement as a grin spreads across your face. This book has done more for me in a shorter period of time than any other writing book I've read. My weaknesses were exposed as a common problem of would-be writers, not something wrong with me alone. Though there is no magic formula (and Koch offers none) to apply it's good to know that if you apply yourself diligently enough there is no reason why you can't write that great piece.
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Title: Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide from New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School by Gotham Writers' Workshop ISBN: 1582343306 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King ISBN: 0743455967 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Writing Fiction Step by Step by Josip Novakovich ISBN: 1884910351 Publisher: Story Press Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner, Raymond Carver ISBN: 0393320030 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Beginnings, Middles & Ends (Elements of Fiction Writing) by Nancy Kress ISBN: 0898799058 Publisher: Writer's Digest Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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