Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction (Writing Handbooks)

What makes fantasy different from other types of fiction? How do you build a science fiction world? Does magic need rules? From outer space to cyberspace, from The Lord of the Rings to Harry Potter, fantasy and science fiction are more popular with readers than ever before, and offer a unique set of

World Building (Science Fiction Writing)

Another in Ben Bova's series on Science Fiction Writing, here geologist and SF scribe Stephen Gillett helps you construct star systems and planets from the atoms up. While it may take you a little more than the proverbial seven days (well, six with rest), when you're done, your knowledge of...

Beginnings, Middles & Ends (Elements of Fiction Writing)

Scene and Structure (Elements of Fiction Writing)

Plot (Elements of Fiction Writing)

Space Travel (Science Fiction Writing Series) (Paperback)

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Conflict, Action and Suspense (Elements of Fiction Writing)

Aliens and Alien Societies (Science Fiction Writing Series) (Hardcover)

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Elements of Fiction Writing - Description

**Summary: Description is a great book for the aspiring author who has already studied Stein on Writing or Self-Editing for Fiction Writers I've read many books on writing novels, books that pound in messages like show-don't-tell and avoid flashbacks like the plague. Stein on Writing and...

The Science of Science Fiction Writing

Amazon.com Another in Ben Bova's series on Science Fiction Writing, here geologist and SF scribe Stephen Gillett helps you construct star systems and planets from the atoms up. While it may take you a little more than the proverbial seven days (well, six with rest), when you're done, your...

Aliens and Alien Societies (Science Fiction Writing Series)

This is a good overview of the basics of realistic SF aliens. However, I found it a bit too basic, and wished for more specifics. But the subject matter is just so broad and protean that anything more than a general overview like this would be very hard to achieve. Perhaps the most valuable portion...

Master Class in Fiction Writing: Techniques from Austen, Hemingway, and Other Greats

...Jane Austen, Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, Joseph Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce, and Iris Murdoch. "Adam Sexton taught me how to read like a writer--and, in a way, how to write like a reader. For without first considering the experience of reading

Time Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travel (Science Fiction Writing Series) (Paperback)

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Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction (Writing Handbooks)

Elements of Fiction Writing - Beginnings, Middles & Ends

She then goes into 'middles,' and later 'ends' of stories, and explains the best ways not to [upset] off your reader, by having a story, for example, where you spend six hundred pages falling in love with the main character, only to have him killed off on the last page for no reason....

Elements of Fiction Writing - Scene & Structure

In my world, air gun pellets might pepper a wall, but a sound cannot. Perhaps that's just his style? If pulling the reader up short and making him say "huh?" is style, then fine - but personally, I'd expect his examples to be cleaner than this. As for the assertion that every scene...

Characters and Viewpoint (Elements of Fiction Writing)

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The Art of War for Writers: Fiction Writing Strategies, Tactics, and Exercises

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Boys and Murderers: Collected Short Fiction, Writing from Bohemia

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Elements of Writing Fiction - Description (Elements of Fiction Writing) (Paperback)

Product Description When writers make their descriptions fresh, they move their stories forward and imbue their work with atmosphere. Monica Wood helps squeeze the greatest flavour from language and provides insight into how detail, editing, style, point of view and original word depictions can be...

Elements of Writing Fiction - Characters & Viewpoint (Elements of Fiction Writing) (Paperback)

Product Description Orson Scott Card presents practical, in-depth instruction on how fiction writers can make the best choices in creating characters and handling viewpoint. The author shows how to put original yet realistic people into fiction.'

Writing Prompts

The editors of Writer's Digest have prepared 52 Writing Prompts—idea joggers and brain starters—to get your writing going. This page and the WritersDigest.com home page present you a new prompt each week. Enjoy, and may these exercises spur you on to even better writing.

Now Write!: Fiction Writing Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers (Paperback)

Product Description A collection of personal writing exercises and commentary from some of today's best novelists, short story writers, and writing teachers, including Jill McCorkle, Amy Bloom, Robert Olen Butler, Steve Almond, Jayne Anne Phillips, Virgil Su‡rez, Margot Livesey, and more....