Writing Fiction - a user-friendly guide by James Essinger
Writing Fiction – a user-friendly guide
‘Writing Fiction is a little pot
of gold… Screenplay by Syd Field for film, Writing Fiction by
James Essinger for fiction. It’s that simple.’
William Osborne,
novelist and screenwriter
Writing Fiction – a
user-friendly guide is a must-read if you want to
write stories to a professional standard.
It draws on the
author’s more than thirty years of experience as a professional writer, and on
the work and ideas of writers including:
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Anthony Burgess
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Joseph Conrad
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George Eliot
•
Ken Follett
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Frederick Forsyth
•
Dan Harmon
•
Ernest Hemingway
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David Lodge
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Norman Mailer
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John Milton
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Ben Parker
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J.K. Rowling
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William Shakespeare
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Martin Cruz Smith
•
J.R.R. Tolkien
The twenty-four
chapters cover every important matter you need to know about, including:
devising a compelling story, creating and developing characters, plotting,
‘plants’, backstory, suspense, dialogue, ‘show’ and ‘tell’, and how to make
your novel more real than reality.
Also featuring special
guest advice from legendary screenwriter Bob Gale, who wrote the three immortal
Back to the Future movies (1985, 1989 and 1990), and novelist and
screenwriter William Osborne, whose many screen credits include the co-writing
of the blockbuster Twins (1988),
this highly entertaining book gives you all the advice and practical guidance
you need to make your dream of becoming a published fiction writer come true.
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The author is obviously a very intelligent and well read person. He has a passion for words and crafting stories and a genuine talent for being able to identify what works in a book and what weighs a tale down. He shares what he knows with a multitude of classic examples, from Charles Dickens and George Eliot to 1980s popular television and movie fiction including Back To The Future.
He explains about the changing acceptance of techniques in creating fiction and those details that remain constant. This book also offers an abundance of additional resources for an aspiring author.
James Essinger has been a professional writer since 1988. His
non-fiction books include Jacquard’s Web (2004), Ada’s Algorithm
(2013), which is to be filmed by Monumental Pictures, and Charles and Ada:
the computer’s most passionate partnership (2019). His novels
include The Mating Game (2016) and The Ada Lovelace Project
(2019).
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