Fire up Your Fiction: An Editor's Guide to Writing Compelling Stories - Softcover

Renner, Jodie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0993700403 ISBN 13: 9780993700408

Verlag: Cobalt Books, 2014

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FIRE UP YOUR FICTION - AN EDITOR'S GUIDE TO WRITING COMPELLING STORIES (formerly titled "Style That Sizzles & Pacing for Power") has won a Silver Medal in the Florida Authors & Publishers President's Book Awards for 2013, a Silver Medal in the Readers' Favorite Book Awards for 2014, and an Honorable Mention in the Writer's Digest Self-Published E-Book Awards for 2013. It was also a finalist in Foreword Reviews IndieFab Book Awards and National Indie Excellence Awards. "What a wonderful resource for writers at any stage of their career! I wish I had this book when I first started writing. ... I can't think of anything important that you haven't addressed succinctly and clearly. ... This should be on the booklist for Master's Programs in Writing for Publication. ... You must be a wonderful editor to be able to write such a readable, but comprehensive book." - Judge, Writer's Digest Self-Published e-Book Awards, January 2014 “Jodie Renner’s FIRE UP YOUR FICTION is a handy manual for writers looking to make the biggest impact with their craft. ... “FIRE UP YOUR FICTION is the Strunk and White for writers who want to be not just mere storytellers but master story-compellers.” ~ IndieReader Approved review, Mar. 2014 If you're looking to hone your style, bring your scenes to life, tighten up your writing, add tension, pick up the pace, and develop a more authentic, appealing voice, this guide to the indispensable style elements of writing a popular novel is for you. This book is packed with great tips to help you write like the pros and create a compelling novel that sells. Not only that, but if you apply these tips to your manuscript, you'll save a lot of money on editing costs. "This book is packed with good advice on how to spot and fix weaknesses in your fiction writing. It summarizes the combined wisdom of the last century or so of fiction teachers into one handy volume." - Randy Ingermanson, bestselling author of Writing Fiction for Dummies "A handy checklist and self-editing guide that will get any fiction writer to a stronger, well-told tale." - James Scott Bell, bestselling author of Revision & Self-Editing, Plot & Structure, and The Art of War for Writers

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cobalt Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0993700403
• ISBN 13: 9780993700408
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 190
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