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Writer's Cave - Creating Short Fiction: The Classic Guide to Writing Short Fiction
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Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.31
EAN: 9780312150945
ISBN: 0312150946
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 209
Publication Date: 1997-03-15
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Studio: St. Martin's Griffin
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Summary: A Helpful Reference
Comment: This book would be a useful reference for anyone who writes anything. Although the title is "Creating Short Fiction," I think much of the information can be handy while writing short fiction as well as while writing novel length fiction. The author provides stimulating exercises that get the mind moving in the direction of creating interesting material. A great addition to any writer's bookshelf.
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Summary: Sage advice
Comment: This was one of the three best books on fiction writing of any kind that I have read--- and I have read many of them. Though I purchased it because I am new to the short fiction genre, I found most of the advice applicable to writing novels as well.
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Summary: Terrific Exercises for Writers
Comment: Get writing! If you like to improve your craft as a writer, this book will give you lots of exercises to do just that.
Move beyond writers block, learn how to end your story the effective way, and more.
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Summary: Best guide yet
Comment: First off, I've never taken a writing course in my life, so even though I feel I have some great ideas I have struggled with how to put them together. This book has really helped start to change that. I've gone through over half of Damon Knight's exercises and already I start to feel some of the barriers in my mind start to give. I don't know if I'll ever become a writer of fiction, however, this book certainly opens you up to the right path.
The process helps develop a whole different way of observing what you experience and how to go about communicate it to others in a way more interesting than a police line up.
Very solid fundamental group of lessons on how persuade your mind to put it all together into a form that makes sense before you learn how to find your own style.
Highly recommended.
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Summary: Almost Typical.
Comment: First let me say the author has some excellent advice about using and staying out of the way of your unconscious thought processes. Amen! Brother Knight. Here's a useful analogy: Let's say your brain is your FM radio. The conscious part can deal with one station at a time. The unconscious part deals with all the stations simultaneously. So get-over the idea that you know what's happening. You dont. Otherwise the book is the same stuff contained in every other how-to-write book, and it's written better than many of the others. Something none of the how-to-write books address is taste. Editors and publishers buy what they like, readers buy what they like, and critics give a hooray! to books they like. One man's treasure is another man's trash.
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