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The acclaimed author of "Winner of the National Book Award" presents a darkly comic novel about a writing group with a killer in its midst.
Learn to write science fiction and fantasy from a master You've always dreamed of writing science fiction and fantasy tales that pull readers into extraordinary new worlds and fantastic conflicts. Best-selling author Orson Scott Card shows you how it's done, distilling years of writing experience and publishing success into concise, no-nonsense advice. You'll learn how to: • utilize story elements that define the science fiction and fantasy genres • build, populate, and dramatize a credible, inviting world your readers will want to explore • develop the "rules" of time, space and magic that affect your world and its inhabitants • construct a compelling story by developing ideas, characters, and events that keep readers turning pages • find the markets for speculative fiction, reach them, and get published • submit queries, write cover letters, find an agent, and live the life of a writer The boundaries of your imagination are infinite. Explore them with Orson Scott Card and create fiction that casts a spell over agents, publishers, and readers from every world.
Everything You need to Write and Sell Your Work This is the ultimate crash course in writing and publishing! Inside you'll find comprehensive instruction, up-to-date market listings, a CD featuring recorded live webinars with industry professionals, an all-access pass to WritersMarket.com, and more. Writer's Digest University is the perfect resource for you, no matter your experience level. This one-stop resource contains: • Quick and comprehensive answers to common questions including: "How do I write a successful novel?" and "How do I know if self-publishing is right for me?" • Instruction and examples for formatting and submitting fiction, nonfiction, articles, children's writing, scripts, and verse. • Advanced instruction on business-related issues like marketing and publicity, using social media, freelancing for corporations, keeping finances in order, and setting the right price for your work. • A detailed look at what agents want and how to get one that best fits your needs. • Market listings for publishers and agents open to unsolicited work and new writers, contests and awards, and conferences and workshops. • A CD with recordings of 4 popular WD webinars: How Do I Get My Book Published?, How to Land a Literary Agent, How Writers Can Succeed in the Future of Digital Publishing, and Freelance Basics.* • A scratch-off code that gives you a one-year subscription to WritersMarket.com and a 20% discount on the WritersDigestUniversity.com course of your choice.* Get started now with everything you need to build a thriving writing career. Whether you're starting from scratch or have a bit of experience, you'll find the tools you need for success. *PLEASE NOTE: CDs and one-year subscription are NOT included with the ebook version of this title.
Create Convincing Characters That Readers—and Editors—Can't Resist! It's the question that eternally plagues all good writers: How can you describe the thoughts and feelings of characters who have backgrounds or psychological aberrations with which you have no personal experience? How can you describe the feelings of a drug addict if you've never been one? How can you write about being a prisoner if you've never been to jail? You can do all the research you want, but the question still remains: How do you convincingly portray characters if you've never lived in their skin? In Breathing Life Into Your Characters, writing consultant and professional psychotherapist Rachel Ballon, Ph. D., shows you how to get in touch with the thoughts and feelings necessary to truly understand your characters—no matter what their background or life experiences. She'll show you how to: • Develop a psychological profile for every character • Turn archetypes into conflicted characters • Think like a criminal to convincingly write one • Reveal personalities through the use of nonverbal communication In addition, you'll learn how to effectively use Ballon's "Method Writing" system—taught previously only in her writing workshops—to explore your own feelings, memories, and emotions to create characters of astonishing depth and complexity!
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This unique novel is both a compelling love story and an insightful writing manual. 'Writers take what we learn of human nature and, fuelled by our longings for other existences and other times, forge new identities that can be as real as she is, sitting with her dog on the weathered step of the old house, stories that move us to tears or laughter.' Merle Carbury, an author in her own right, also teaches Creative Writing. Amid the tension of the final semester of the year, her many and varied students prepare to submit their manuscripts. As Merle mentors their assorted ambitions, observes the romantic entanglements of her colleague, worries about her husband and is intrigued by their mysterious German lodger, she both imparts and embodies how to write a novel. Written by a prize-winning author, who is also an experienced teacher, the overarching intelligence, compassion and wicked humour in this inventive book make it a joy to read.
Clara Burns, creative writing instructor, conducts Friday afternoon classes at the Las Hermigas senior center. Her students, like most retirees, are short in the tooth, grinding their chompers to the gum lime; agonizing over wrinkles; sagging pecs, and bulging pots of cottage cheese-like flesh. Most oldsters, armed with Viagra and Metamucil, are in rumpus rooms watching reruns of "I Love Lucy," sponsored by companies offering burial insurance and adult diapers. Nordic Track machines are used to hang clothes on that aren't completely dry. Clara's students are pecking away at future Stones for Ibarra. She inspires her writers with tales of a misspent youth, followed by stories of her misspent adulthood. Like a band of geriatric pilgrims from The Canterbury Tales, Clara's writing students regale one another with stories of how it used to be. Their stories are the sort Flannery O'Connor might have written if she had been in the Border Patrol. The Writing Class creates a bridge - enabling readers to span intergenerational crevasses. Mid-life, transforming crises are narrated showing how we got to be like this; why old people seem like doofuses, while the young are not only restless but dweeb-like.
Jack hates Americans, Chick-Lit and being lied to. Amy hates Englishmen, literary snobs and rain. It's pretty obvious what's going to happen: all the rules of popular romance say they have to fall in love. But what if you're the one who wrote those rules? And what if you don't believe in them any more? Throw in a motley group of wannabe writers, an omniscient Australian, several imaginary Muses, an ASBO princess, birds with arms and the unbridled power of karaoke, and all bets are off. You've never seen romance go this wrong...
This is the book version of the course used by thousands of students in schools and homeschools throughout the world. The Writing Course is based on an understanding of language as an instinct, best used with one's unique and individual writing voice. The Writing Course addresses all aspects of learning how to write, including punctuation, grammar, spelling, motivation, creativity, and feedback.
Living for the writing class she teaches at the university extension, reclusive widow Amy Gallup senses something different about her latest group of students when she begins to receive scary phone calls and obscene threats that culminate in a murder.