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Title: Beginnings, Middles & Ends (Elements of Fiction Writing) by Nancy Kress ISBN: 0-89879-905-8 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.85 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Very useful guide for structuring a story
Comment: This is a very useful guide on how short stories and novels should be structured from beginning to end. When you read fiction only for entertainment, it's easy to forget that there's as much craft involved in writing as there is creativity. It's hard to teach creativity, but a book like this can be really helpful in recognizing the conventions that most well written books follow. Some of these conventions seem fairly obvious when you read about them, such as providing sufficient motivation to show why a character changes during a story and delivering at the end of the story the implied promises made at the beginning, yet I've read a lot of published fiction that could have benefitted from the advice in this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: So good I've read it twice
Comment: An excellent book on writing. Using the same example throughout the book, Kress shows you step-by-step (without being dogmatic!) how to write a well-crafted story. Her advice is so much common sense you'll be smacking yourself. Also a good book to refer to while you're writing. Not all how-to books can make that claim. Heartily recommended.
Rating: 4
Summary: Pretty good book
Comment: I picked this book up hoping it would show me how to get unstuck when I'm in the middle of working on what will be my first manuscript. It didn't disappoint. I've never spent time trying to learn the craft of writing before, and while some of the book was just making me realize things I already knew but didn't think about, there was just allot of good information in this book. Kress seemed to be preaching in a few places, but I may have been reading to much into it. All in all, I would highly recommend this book to any beginning writer. Theres allot of great info and it's well worth the time.
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Title: Characters and Viewpoint (Elements of Fiction Writing) by Orson Scott Card ISBN: 0898799279 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile by Noah Lukeman ISBN: 068485743X Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 20 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Plot (Elements of Fiction Writing) by Ansen Dibell ISBN: 0898799465 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Description (Elements of Fiction Writing) by Monica Wood ISBN: 0898799082 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Scene and Structure by Jack M. Bickham ISBN: 0898799066 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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