Schaum's Quick Guide To Writing Great Short Stories

by Margaret Lucke

Overview

This guide to writing compelling, memorable short stories gives you all the essentials without wasted words. It tells you how and where to get ideas, how to establish and sustain excitement, how to create live, colorful characters, and how to plot, develop and bring home your story. It even includes exercises to help you perfect your story-telling skills. Full of tips and techniques that work, it makes an indispensable, reliable collaborator. You'll find it ideal whether you're studying alone or supplementing a creative or fiction writing course, conference or workshop.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780070390775
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	10/01/1998
Series:	Quick Guides Series
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.39(d)

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Editorial Reviews

Short but concise, this handy book offers a basic process and outline for writing short fiction. It covers everything from getting started to developing your individual voice as a writer. It even includes a quick guide for formatting and manuscript submission.

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