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What If?
Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers
Anne Bernays, Pamela Painter
Widely used by creative writing classes, loved by tutors, this book is full of exercises designed to guide you through the writing process and put your ideas into practice. Guaranteed to improve your writing!
£7.20^* - save 10%

Writing Fiction Step by Step
Josip Novakovich
An award-winning author leads you through more than 200 exercises enabling you to complete a story or novel and improve your writing skills. It covers the areas of character, plot, point of view, setting, beginnings, development, dialogue, voice, description, images, and style.
£9.89^* - save 9%

Fiction Writer's Workshop
Josip Novakovich
With more than 120 writing exercises, this learn-by-doing guide is designed to help writers improve and expand their fiction according to individual needs and schedules.
£8.79^* - save 20%

So You Want to Write
How to Master the Craft of Writing Fiction and Personal Narrative
Marge Piercy and Ira Wood
Here is a self-help book for aspiring writers, written by an established author and a publisher. It offers advice such as: begin a piece by seducing your reader; master the elements of plotting fiction; and create a strategy for telling the story of your life.
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Story Starters
Lou Willett Stanek
How to jump-start your imagination, get your creative juices flowing, and start writing your story or novel. Packed with good, sound, exciting advice, this book has so many story starters you'll be spoilt for choice.
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Fiction First Aid
Raymond Obstfeld
Instant remedies for novels, stories, and scripts. Quickly shows how seemingly fatal errors can become both manageable and fixable. Novice and more experienced writers alike will appreciate the book's techniques for identifying and revising weaknesses in their work: 1) Diagnose the problem; 2) Suggest specific remedies; 3) Prescribe therapies to avoid the problem in the future.
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Immediate Fiction
Jerry Cleaver
Covering the entire process of writing, from manuscript preparation to marketing, the author shows how to start writing and how to get immediate results. Readers will learn everything they need to know about managing time, finding an idea, getting that first word on the page, staying unblocked, shaping ideas into compelling stories, and submitting their work to agents and publishers. With insightful tips on how to manage doubts, fears, blocks and panic, Immediate Fiction will help readers develop their skills in as little as ten minutes a day.
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Writing Fiction
A Guide to Narrative Craft
Janet Burroway
A must for serious novelists, this book is the recommended text for short story and novel writing courses across the world. Many people say it is the best book on the craft of writing ever written. Covers: show and tell, story form and structure, characterisation, setting and atmosphere, point of view, symbol and metaphor, theme and revision. But don't just take our word for it - click on the link to see the reviews on Amazon.co.uk!
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