Welcome to Hell: A Working Guide for the Beginning Writer

by Tom Piccirilli

Overview

Welcome to Hell is an anecdotal look into Piccirilli's life and writing process that happens to serve as a wonderful tool for any fledgling writer.

"If anybody tells you that all you need is a lucky break, then tell them to shove off. Luck is about the worst thing that can happen in this biz, and it's no substitute for knowledge, experience, and skill." --Tom Piccirilli, from Welcome to Hell

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933846835
Publisher:	Fairwood Press LLC
Publication date:	07/23/2019
Pages:	90
Product dimensions:	4.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.22(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction #1

Introduction #2

Fighting the Good Fight

Where Do You Get Your Ideas?

Technique, Style, and Watching Bob’s Face Get Eaten

Sure I Could Be a Bestseller, But I Just Don’t Have the Time

I’m a Science Fiction Writer But I’ve Never Heard of Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg or This Dr. Asimov Guy

Networking

Writers Block & Other Hang-ups

The Briefest of Final Comments

Editorial Reviews

"The energy and directness of Piccirilli's fiction abounds in Welcome to Hell; where at least a hundred-and-one
percent of a young writer's questions and despairs are addressed. If you are just starting out as a writer, listen
to this man. You can trust what he tells you." --Jack Cady, author of The American Writer

"Piccirilli tells, in a concise and often amusing fashion, what he has learned in over a decade of writing fine short
stories and novels in the fields of horror, mystery and fantasy. Welcome to Hell should be read by anyone serious
about embarking on a career writing fiction." --Richard Laymon, author of A Writer's Tale

"Tom Piccirilli doesn't mess around with academic folderol that makes unusable pronouncements about writing fiction. He gets right to the marrow with the directness of a heart to heart conversation. No nonsense. Here's what works. This is a must for the neophyte's bookshelf." --James Van Pelt, author of Summer of the
Apocalypse

"Welcome to Hell is a quick look--like a kiss in the dark from someone you've admired for years--inside Tom
Piccirilli's head. These are the problems and questions beginning writers need to know and understand. The
things Tom talks about in this book are like the flogging whips of penitents, and they can beat your career to death
before it even gets started. Check the hash marks on Tom's back. He's lost some skin over these very things. All I can say is thank you, Tom, for the advice, but where the hell were you when I was getting started? You could
have saved me some grief and skin." --Trey Barker, author of The Unknowing

"In a mere forty to fifty pages (depending on whether you count the signature page and the helpful addresses), Piccirilli lays out, in an ultra-accessible almost stream-of-consciousness style, answers to all the silly questions that newbie writers like to ask." --Spiderwords

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