- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd (31 Mar 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0713648759
- ISBN-13: 978-0713648751
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.6 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 460,770 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This work introduces readers to the author's brand of revising fiction - a process in which a story's words, structure, even its very meaning may change as it grows stronger. Through every stage of the writing process the author provides strategies and criteria to help pinpoint the problems in your work and fix them. He looks at sacred" first ideas, slow starts, out-of-sequence events, imprecise language, inflated imagery, weak sentence structure, insufficient dialogue, action and description. In addition to illustrating his points with examples from contemporary writers he traces the evolution of three of his own stories throught drafts to final versions."
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Extremely Enlightening!,
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This review is from: Rewriting: A Creative Approach to Writing Fiction (Books for Writers) (Paperback)
Ever wondered why your story isn't "quite" right? Is your writing lacking a certain "je ne sais quoi"? Well, within the pages of this book, I definitely found the answer to these questions. I have been writing short stories for a number of years, without any commercial success and could never put my finger on the problem. Even after completing several courses I was none the wiser. But since reading this book, I have, at the least, gained futher insight into the art of good writing - by putting the author's advise into practice, my stories have improved 100%.This book is highly recommended for anyone who knows the basics of creative writing but is stuck at the same level and doesn't quite know how to get to the next one. Well worth every penny and a good addition to the aspiring writer's library.
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Great for writers,
This review is from: Rewriting: A Creative Approach to Writing Fiction (Books for Writers) (Paperback)
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4.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Learn how to become a Writer,
By Alun Gwyn Jones - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Rewriting: A Creative Approach to Writing Fiction (Books for Writers) (Paperback)
Yup, that's Writer with a capital W. It's a state you get to when technique subjugates art, when writing becomes so conscious and scientific every idea, every word, every phrase is so carefully selected and polished it shines from the page, self-satisifed in its own perfection. It's style, it's technique, it's formula, it's... dull. The author gives many examples which are instructive, but I keep feeling that many of his earlier revisions were better than the final one. He should have stopped rewriting while the thing still had some some soul left in it, before his incessant reworking squeezed out all its life. On first reading some of his shorts my reaction was, "Boy, this guy knows how to string together a word or two. And he's pretty good with punctuation." But after a while you see it for what it is - follow-the-recipe, pick a point of view, pick a conflict, not-too-much, not-too-little, pick a resolution, tum-tee-tum-tee-tum. And it isn't improved by varying it with bizarre 'creative' ideas - bagpipe playing (!), wives swimming with whales, dream sequences, women with pet lizards. Perhaps I'm being a bit overly critical, because it really is a nicely written book that makes you snort from time-to-time, with lots of good advice for writing SHORT stories. Only don't follow it to its very logical conclusion. Stop while you still have some juice in you. Above all, don't become a Writer. |
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