With more than 120 writing exercises, this l earn-by-doing guide is designed to help students improve and expand their fiction according to individual needs and sche dules. '
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Fiction Writer's Workshop - a worthwhile read for a beginning writer:
Fiction Writer's Workshop
This book presents more humanistic, less aggressively "punchy" guidelines for the beginning writer, probably because the author is Central European.The discussions ramble compared to American-authored writing guides, but for the reader who seeks a way to build literature out of impressions and experiences, this is the kind of slow, introspective work s/he might like. There are probably too many exercises per topic, but it's worth picking out one or two out of each chapter and... more info
Should be considered indispensable reading:
The primary purpose and goal of a writer's workshop is to help writers improve their writing. Simply stated, but often quite difficulty to accomplish because like most things in life, writer workshops can be classified into one of three categories -- the good, the bad, and the mediocre. Now in an updated and expanded second edition, award-winning writer and teacher Josip Novakovich's "Fiction Writer's Workshop" is clearly one of the good ones in the form of a comprehensive instructional that covers every... more info
Great Book:
I own the first edition. I'm a sculptor but in coming up with ideas I have recently thought of writing stories involving my characters. I borrowed this book from a friend about three years ago and rediscovered in on my bookshelf about two weeks ago. I love it. Buy the second edition. It includes short stories.
An excellent intermediary guide book:
Once you have read an introductory book like Brayfield's Bestseller or Kings 'On writing' this is the book to buy and use. Novakovich covers there basic elements: Setting /Character/Plot/PoV/Dialogue & Scene/Begins and endings / description/ vice and revision. He uses numerous examples form published literature and each chapter concludes with a number of good exercises. One topic Novakovich does not cover is writers block. Maybe that is because he provides the solutions. Writers block is... more info
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