Description
Book SynopsisLEARN HOW TO WRITE WONDERFUL AND VARIED SHORT STORIES AND SHARE THEM WITH THE WORLD.
Written by one of the country''s leading experts on the short story, this book is ideal if you want to write creatively in a genre that is increasingly attracting attention from publishers, and which offers plenty of competition and festival opportunities for you to showcase your work.
This new edition includes uptodate material on web resources and outlets and provides new information on self-publishing. In addition it discusses genres such as micro-fiction, and throughout is fully updated with new resources, events, slams and competitions.
It will help unlock your imagination and creativity, and to discover stories you didn''t know you had. It will help you to observe the world around you more sharply, as well as to structure, shape and polish your story. It is full of practical exercises that will both inspire imagination and refine skills, and confidence-building suggest
Trade Review
Her chapter by chapter approach to gradually developing your writing works well, with relevant anecdotes, references to short story collections and exercises in each section... If you've got some experience of writing, it's worth a look for the exercises - a good way to help you get your stories 'match fit', or moving again if you're stuck mid-draft. * Left Lion *
Table of Contents
- : 1. Introduction
- : 2. Where do I start?
- : 3. What you need
- : 4. Before you go on
- : 5. Do you enjoy short stories?
- : 6. Size matters
- : 7. Getting in, getting through and getting out
- : 8. Plots and structures
- : 9. More on plots and structures
- : 10. Unreliable narrators
- : 11. Documentary stories
- : 12. Characterisation
- : 13. Dialogue
- : 14. Do not skip this chapter!
- : 15. Publishing your story
- : 16. Why?
