Elements of Fiction Writing Beginnings, Middles and Ends

Name: Elements of Fiction Writing Beginnings, Middles and Ends
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Get Your Readers' AttentionAnd Keep ItFrom the First World to the Final Page Translating that initial flash of inspiration into a complete story requires careful crafting. So how do you keep your story from beginning slowly, floundering midway, and trailing off at the end? Nancy Kress shows you effective solutions for potential problems at each stage of your storyessential lessons for strong start-to-finish storytelling. .Hook readers, agents, and editors in the first three paragraphs. .Make and keep your story's implicit promise to the reader. .Build drama and credibility by controlling your prose. .Consider the price a writer pays for flashbacks. .Reveal character effectively throughout your story. Get the tools you need to get your story off to an engaging start, keep the middle tight and compelling, and make your conclusion high impact. You'll also find dozens of exercises to help strengthen your short story or novel. Let this resource be your guide to successful storiesfrom the first word to the last.

Author Biography:

Although she began by writing fantasy, Nancy Kress currently writes science fiction, most usually about genetic engineering. She teaches regularly at summer conferences such as Clarion, and during the year at the Bethesda Writing Center in Bethesda, Maryland. In addition, she is the "Fiction" columnist for Writer's Digest magazine. She has won two Nebulas and a Hugo, and lost over a dozen more of these awards. Her work has been translated into Swedish, French, Italian, German, and Spanish, among others.

Release date NZ

March 21st, 2011

Author

Nancy Kress

Pages

167

Edition

2nd edition

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General (US: Trade)

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152x229x12

ISBN-13

9781599632193

Product ID

9998781

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