Fiction Writing


Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish
Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression (Writers Helping Writers, #1)
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
The Elements of Style
Writing the Breakout Novel: Insider Advice for Taking Your Fiction to the Next Level
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel
The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface
Scene & Structure (Elements of Fiction Writing)
Characters & Viewpoint
Raymond Chandler
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high tragedy, and it may be pity and irony, and it may be the raucous laughter of the strong man. But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathere ...more
Raymond Chandler, The Simple Art of Murder

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.
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