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Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers: Turbo-Charge Your Writing
★★★ARE YOU READY TO RAISE YOUR WRITING GAME? Discover ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING TECHNIQUES to take your fiction, drama and poetry to a new level! ★★★
Dramatic techniques are all about bold, clear, high-impact writing. Once you discover the craft concepts used by screen and stage writers to bring stories to life, you’ll never look back.
Dramatic techniques work. They’ve survived the bearpit of live audiences. They cut through the mud. They make it super-easy to edit, because they’re built on an underlying structure.
Authors who don’t have a firm grasp on these powerful strategies are missing out! Because dramatic techniques are core narrative skills, and they’ll supercharge your writing and editing.
This practical guide to dramatic concepts will give you confidence in structure, plotting and character, and may even blow your mind. At the very least, you’ll kick yourself for not discovering them sooner.
I wrote fiction for years. Then I started writing scripts professionally. I was gobsmacked by how little I knew. All the craft techniques I was missing. Why? Because dramatic, prose and poetry writers move in different worlds. So they don’t share professional secrets. Things
dramatic action and how to use it to drive a scene how to write subtext to create tensionhow to use status shifts to create more dynamic charactershow to use objects to focus character relationships how to use space for impact and tensionhow transformations can make your storytelling more dynamicthe difference between private and public settings in story dynamicshow the ribbon of time can help tight, powerful editinghow to use rituals to shortcut expositionThis book is packed with advanced writing craft concepts from the world of film, stage, and professional storytelling. If you want to move your writing up a gear, this is for you.
If you've ever wrestled with showing and telling, dramatic techniques will turbo-charge your skills. If you've ever written flat scenes with no tension, Dramatic Techniques will tighten the screw. If you've published novels for years and still aren't seeing sales, it's time to step up a level with this advanced, powerful writing advice.
★★★ Jules Horne is an award-winning fiction writer and playwright from Scotland. She teaches creative writing students at a UK university where she co-wrote the MA script strand. She’s an experienced teacher and editor and works across the writing craft disciplines (multimodal and multimedia). She writes the books she wishes she’d had when she was starting out as a writer with practical, professional how-tos that cut to the chase, and the pro secrets no one tells you, till you join the writing industries.
Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers is just the jolt your creative writing needs!
www.method.writing.com
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...A must for any creative writer, full of helpful tips and techniques...
...has really helped me to structure conflict scenes much more effectively in my novel...
Dramatic techniques are all about bold, clear, high-impact writing. Once you discover the craft concepts used by screen and stage writers to bring stories to life, you’ll never look back.
Dramatic techniques work. They’ve survived the bearpit of live audiences. They cut through the mud. They make it super-easy to edit, because they’re built on an underlying structure.
Authors who don’t have a firm grasp on these powerful strategies are missing out! Because dramatic techniques are core narrative skills, and they’ll supercharge your writing and editing.
This practical guide to dramatic concepts will give you confidence in structure, plotting and character, and may even blow your mind. At the very least, you’ll kick yourself for not discovering them sooner.
I wrote fiction for years. Then I started writing scripts professionally. I was gobsmacked by how little I knew. All the craft techniques I was missing. Why? Because dramatic, prose and poetry writers move in different worlds. So they don’t share professional secrets. Things
dramatic action and how to use it to drive a scene how to write subtext to create tensionhow to use status shifts to create more dynamic charactershow to use objects to focus character relationships how to use space for impact and tensionhow transformations can make your storytelling more dynamicthe difference between private and public settings in story dynamicshow the ribbon of time can help tight, powerful editinghow to use rituals to shortcut expositionThis book is packed with advanced writing craft concepts from the world of film, stage, and professional storytelling. If you want to move your writing up a gear, this is for you.
If you've ever wrestled with showing and telling, dramatic techniques will turbo-charge your skills. If you've ever written flat scenes with no tension, Dramatic Techniques will tighten the screw. If you've published novels for years and still aren't seeing sales, it's time to step up a level with this advanced, powerful writing advice.
★★★ Jules Horne is an award-winning fiction writer and playwright from Scotland. She teaches creative writing students at a UK university where she co-wrote the MA script strand. She’s an experienced teacher and editor and works across the writing craft disciplines (multimodal and multimedia). She writes the books she wishes she’d had when she was starting out as a writer with practical, professional how-tos that cut to the chase, and the pro secrets no one tells you, till you join the writing industries.
Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers is just the jolt your creative writing needs!
www.method.writing.com
Reviews
...A must for any creative writer, full of helpful tips and techniques...
...has really helped me to structure conflict scenes much more effectively in my novel...
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Published July 20, 2018
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October 13, 2022
I felt like I've been robbed. This book promised stuff on how to write better subtext, one of the hardest to write things and convey in fictional writing for me. Then it talked about how to heighten tension...etc. it did nothing it promised with terrible examples.
It gives the most basic advice and assumes you will write in 3rd person. This sort of advice is useless for first person writers. The bare minimum paragraphs it had on subtext were disgustingly basic and in no way showed good examples of good subtext or how to make subtext well written. Saying I love you and pouring poison, gee, wow terrible 3rd grade advice.
I really want my money back. This is one of the worst books I've ever read to help improve writing and I have dozens. It gives information that you can find for free on blogs. I recommend Jack Grapes or Donald Maass for better tips.
A lot of repeated stuff that was useless. Gee thanks I think I understand that the word drama is Greek. How does that apply to actually tightening up a novel or with pacing?
It gives the most basic advice and assumes you will write in 3rd person. This sort of advice is useless for first person writers. The bare minimum paragraphs it had on subtext were disgustingly basic and in no way showed good examples of good subtext or how to make subtext well written. Saying I love you and pouring poison, gee, wow terrible 3rd grade advice.
I really want my money back. This is one of the worst books I've ever read to help improve writing and I have dozens. It gives information that you can find for free on blogs. I recommend Jack Grapes or Donald Maass for better tips.
A lot of repeated stuff that was useless. Gee thanks I think I understand that the word drama is Greek. How does that apply to actually tightening up a novel or with pacing?
June 28, 2025
This book teaches some challenging concepts that seem difficult to find or learn from books on this topic.
I think the author might have revised the book. I liked the new additions. I think this is the best book on the topic of writing conflict. It says many new things concerning it. I recommend it. Even though it doesn’t mention everything, it tells you what other books you should read to learn more. I recommend it.
I think the author might have revised the book. I liked the new additions. I think this is the best book on the topic of writing conflict. It says many new things concerning it. I recommend it. Even though it doesn’t mention everything, it tells you what other books you should read to learn more. I recommend it.
February 5, 2024
Jules Horne's book is accessible, clearly written, and really, really helpful for fiction writers of all levels of experience.
I've read a lot of books for writers in the past few years. This is one of the best.
I've read a lot of books for writers in the past few years. This is one of the best.
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