Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life - Hardcover

Brooks, Terry

 
9780345458285: Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0345458281 ISBN 13: 9780345458285
Verlag: Del Rey, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Filled with practical advice for anyone interested in creative writing, the best-selling author of the Shannara series offers a firsthand glimpse of the rewards and requirements of the writing life, in alternating chapters that address his experiences in the publishing world along with discussions on different aspects of the writing craft--research, plotting, characterization, and more.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Terry Brooks is the author, most recently, of Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Morgawr, his twentieth New York Times bestseller. His novels Running with the Demon and A Knight of the Word were selected by the Rocky Mountain News as two of the best science fiction/fantasy novels of the twentieth century. He is a regular teacher at the prestigious Maui Writers Conference and lives in Seattle and Hawaii.

Visit us online at www.shannara.com.

Aus dem Klappentext

New York Times Trade Paperback Bestseller list back then the exclusive province of self-help guides, cartoon collections, and any number of cat books played host to its very first work of fiction: The Sword of Shannara, an epic quest through a mythical land, by first-time author Terry Brooks. Nineteen New York Times bestselling novels later, it would be easy enough to just say: . . . and the rest is history. But when it comes to quests, everyone knows that getting there is half the fun. Now, Terry Brooks tells the story of how he got there from beginner to bestselling author and shares his secrets for creating unusual, memorable fiction.

Writing is writing, whether one s setting is a magical universe or a suburban backyard. Spanning topics from the importance of daydreaming to the necessity of writing an outline, from the fine art of showing instead of merely telling to creating b

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Verlag
Del Rey
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0345458281
ISBN 13 
9780345458285
Einband
Tapa dura
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
197
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