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

Brooks, Terry

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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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.

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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

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Del Rey
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0345458281
• ISBN 13: 9780345458285
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 197
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar