The fantasy fiction formula

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 178499605X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Book Synopsis The fantasy fiction formula by : Deborah Chester

Download or read book The fantasy fiction formula written by Deborah Chester and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's more to writing a successful fantasy story than building a unique world or inventing new magic. How exactly is a plot put together? How do you know if your idea will support an entire novel? How do you grab reader attention and keep it? How do you create dynamic, multi-dimensional characters? What is viewpoint and do you handle it differently in urban fantasy than in traditional epics? What should you do if you're lost in the middle? How do you make your plot end up where you intend it to go? From the writing of strong, action-packed scenes to the handling of emotions, let award-winning fantasy author Deborah Chester guide you through the process of putting a book together. Convinced there's no need to shroud the writing process under a veil of mystery, Chester supplies tips that are both practical and proven. They are exactly what she uses in writing her own novels and what she teaches in her writing courses at the University of Oklahoma. Along with explaining story construction step-by-step, Chester illustrates each technique with examples drawn from both traditional and urban fantasy. The technique chapters include exercises to assist novices in mastering the craft of writing fantasy as well as suggestions for avoiding or solving plot problems. More experienced writers will find tips for taking their work to the next level. With an introduction by author Jim Butcher, The fantasy fiction formula provides the information you need to gain skill and proficiency in writing fantasy like a pro.

The Language of the Night

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Publisher : Ultramarine Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780399504822
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (48 download)

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Book Synopsis The Language of the Night by : Ursula K. Le Guin

Download or read book The Language of the Night written by Ursula K. Le Guin and published by Ultramarine Publishing. This book was released on 1979 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 158297103X
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (829 download)

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Book Synopsis How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy by : Orson Scott Card

Download or read book How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy written by Orson Scott Card and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-09-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to write science fiction and fantasy from a master You've always dreamed of writing science fiction and fantasy tales that pull readers into extraordinary new worlds and fantastic conflicts. Best-selling author Orson Scott Card shows you how it's done, distilling years of writing experience and publishing success into concise, no-nonsense advice. You'll learn how to: • utilize story elements that define the science fiction and fantasy genres • build, populate, and dramatize a credible, inviting world your readers will want to explore • develop the "rules" of time, space and magic that affect your world and its inhabitants • construct a compelling story by developing ideas, characters, and events that keep readers turning pages • find the markets for speculative fiction, reach them, and get published • submit queries, write cover letters, find an agent, and live the life of a writer The boundaries of your imagination are infinite. Explore them with Orson Scott Card and create fiction that casts a spell over agents, publishers, and readers from every world.

Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing

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Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1947793004
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing written by Ursula K. Le Guin and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ursula K. Le Guin discusses her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry?both her process and her philosophy?with all the wisdom, profundity, and rigor we expect from one of the great writers of the last century. When the New York Times referred to Ursula K. Le Guin as America’s greatest writer of science fiction, they just might have undersold her legacy. It’s hard to look at her vast body of work?novels and stories across multiple genres, poems, translations, essays, speeches, and criticism?and see anything but one of our greatest writers, period. In a series of interviews with David Naimon (Between the Covers), Le Guin discusses craft, aesthetics, and philosophy in her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction respectively. The discussions provide ample advice and guidance for writers of every level, but also give Le Guin a chance to to sound off on some of her favorite subjects: the genre wars, the patriarchy, the natural world, and what, in her opinion, makes for great writing. With excerpts from her own books and those that she looked to for inspiration, this volume is a treat for Le Guin’s longtime readers, a perfect introduction for those first approaching her writing, and a tribute to her incredible life and work.

Partial Portraits

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Total Pages : 430 pages
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Book Synopsis Partial Portraits by : Henry James

Download or read book Partial Portraits written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents--Emerson; The Life of George Eliot; Daniel Deronda: A Conversation; Anthony Trollope; Robert Louis Stevenson; Miss Woolson; Alphonse Daudet; Guy de Maupassant; Ivan Turgenieff; George du Maurier; The Art of Fiction.

Intimate Conversations with the Divine

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Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1401922899
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Intimate Conversations with the Divine by : Caroline Myss

Download or read book Intimate Conversations with the Divine written by Caroline Myss and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, from the New York Times best-selling author of Sacred Contracts and Anatomy of the Spirit, a timely guide with 100 prayers for entering into a personal relationship with the Divine. "I've loved so many of Caroline Myss's books, but maybe none so much as Intimate Conversations with the Divine. Has there ever been a more urgent need for her unique and profound (and sometimes wonderfully cranky) take on our spiritual reality, healing, and the language of holiness?" -- Anne Lamott, author of Traveling Mercies and Help, Thanks, Wow In her most personal book to date--now available in paperback for the first time--beloved teacher and best-selling author Caroline Myss draws on her own practice to help us regain our fluency in the language of prayer and renew our connection to the sacred. Intimate Conversations with the Divine offers 100 of Myss's personal prayers as a resource and inspiration to start a prayer practice of your own. Each prayer illustrates a different type of grace that feeds the human soul, from awakening, endurance, and healing, to silence, surrender, and trust. "We are one holy system of life and great cosmic truth, which is that all life--including all of us--breathes together," Myss writes. "I hope this book, these prayers, will bring you comfort and grace, and help you through the difficult times ahead. And I hope they will inspire you to believe that with God, all things are possible."

Legacy of Ash

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Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316457892
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Book Synopsis Legacy of Ash by : Matthew Ward

Download or read book Legacy of Ash written by Matthew Ward and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legacy of Ash is an unmissable fantasy debut--an epic tale of intrigue and revolution, soldiers and assassins, ancient magic and the eternal clash of empires. A shadow has fallen over the Tressian Republic. Ruling families -- once protectors of justice and democracy -- now plot against one another with sharp words and sharper knives. Blinded by ambition, they remain heedless of the threat posed by the invading armies of the Hadari Empire. Yet as Tressia falls, heroes rise. Viktor Akadra is the Republic's champion. A warrior without equal, he hides a secret that would see him burned as a heretic. Josiri Trelan is Viktor's sworn enemy. A political prisoner, he dreams of reigniting his mother's failed rebellion. And yet Calenne Trelan, Josiri's sister, seeks only to break free of their tarnished legacy; to escape the expectation and prejudice that haunts the family name. As war spreads across the Republic, these three must set aside their differences in order to save their home. Yet decades of bad blood are not easily set aside. And victory -- if it comes at all -- will demand a darker price than any of them could have imagined.

Diary: Fact, Fiction, Fantasy

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Publisher : A.E. Davis
ISBN 13 : 0578255650
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (782 download)

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Download or read book Diary: Fact, Fiction, Fantasy written by A.E. Davis and published by A.E. Davis. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diary: Fact, Fiction, Fantasy is the story of a woman who one day realizes she no longer recognizes herself. Her identity has been lost in the role of mother, wife, and employee. As she works to get back to herself by chronicling her days in a series of diary entries, poems, and essays. These writings have become her therapy. Let's go along as she makes the tough decision to separate her children from their father, and eventual divorce. A step that has become necessary to save herself in order to find happiness within, and be a better mother. Read along as she navigates starting all over again while rediscovering herself, her wants, needs, and desires. Some parts are true, some are made up, but all of this book charts one woman's real path to healing and she hopes relay her journey is therapeutic for you.

Fact, Fiction Or Fantasy

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1446137538
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (461 download)

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Book Synopsis Fact, Fiction Or Fantasy by : Don Amis Warin

Download or read book Fact, Fiction Or Fantasy written by Don Amis Warin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: poem, poems, poetry, love, trees

The Mash House

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Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789651204
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mash House by : Alan Gillespie

Download or read book The Mash House written by Alan Gillespie and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cullrothes, in the Scottish Highlands, where Innes hides a terrible secret from his girlfriend Alice, a gorgeous, cheating, lying schoolteacher. In the same village, Donald is the aggressive distillery owner, who floods the country with narcotics alongside his single malt; when his son goes missing, he becomes haunted by an anonymous American investor intent on purchasing the Cullrothes Distillery by any means necessary. Schoolgirl Jessie is trying to get the grades to escape to the mainland, while Grandpa counts the days left in his life. This is a place where mountains are immense and the loch freezes in winter. A place with only one road in and out. With long storms and furious midges and a terrible phone signal. The police are compromised the journalists are scum, and the innocent folk of Cullrothes tangle themselves in a fermenting barrel of suspicion, malice and lies...

The Craft of Fiction

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
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Book Synopsis The Craft of Fiction by : Percy Lubbock

Download or read book The Craft of Fiction written by Percy Lubbock and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Legs

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140064842
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Legs by : William Kennedy

Download or read book Legs written by William Kennedy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1983-01-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legs, the inaugural book in William Kennedy’s acclaimed Albany cycle of novels, brilliantly evokes the flamboyant career of gangster Jack “Legs” Diamond. Through the equivocal eyes of Diamond’s attorney, Marcus Gorman (who scraps a promising political career for the more elemental excitement of the criminal underworld), we watch as Legs and his showgirl mistress, Kiki Roberts, blaze their gaudy trail across the tabloid pages of the 1920s and 1930s.

Mason & Dixon

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101594640
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Mason & Dixon by : Thomas Pynchon

Download or read book Mason & Dixon written by Thomas Pynchon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A novel that is as moving as it is cerebral, as poignant as it is daring." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Mason & Dixon - like Huckleberry Finn, like Ulysses - is one of the great novels about male friendship in anybody's literature." - John Leonard, The Nation Charles Mason (1728–1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733–1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as reimagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major caffeine abuse. Unreflectively entangled in crimes of demarcation, Mason & Dixon take us along on a grand tour of the Enlightenment’s dark hemisphere, from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back to England, into the shadowy yet redemptive turns of their later lives, through incongruities in conscience, parallaxes of personality, tales of questionable altitude told and intimated by voices clamoring not to be lost. Along the way they encounter a plentiful cast of characters, including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Samuel Johnson, as well as a Chinese feng shui master, a Swedish irredentist, a talking dog, and a robot duck. The quarrelsome, daring, mismatched pair—Mason as melancholy and Gothic as Dixon is cheerful and pre-Romantic—pursues a linear narrative of irregular lives, observing, and managing to participate in the many occasions of madness presented them by the Age of Reason.

The Last Post

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719036095
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis The Last Post by : Simon Shaw-Miller

Download or read book The Last Post written by Simon Shaw-Miller and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Guide to Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction

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Publisher : Adams Media
ISBN 13 : 1440501459
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)

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Book Synopsis The Guide to Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction by : Philip Athans

Download or read book The Guide to Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction written by Philip Athans and published by Adams Media. This book was released on 2010-07-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction and fantasy is one of the most challenging—and rewarding—genres to write. But with New York Times bestselling author Philip Athans and fantasy giant R. A. Salvatore at your side, you’ll create worlds that draw your readers in—and keep them reading! Drawing on his years of experience as one of the most acclaimed professionals in publishing, Wizards of the Coast editor Athans explains how to set your novel apart and break into this lucrative field. From devising clever plots and building complex characters to inventing original technologies and crafting alien civilizations, Athans gives you the techniques you need to write strong, saleable narratives. Athans applies all of these critical lessons together in an unprecedented deconstruction of a never-before-published tale by the one and only R. A. Salvatore! There are books on writing science fiction and fantasy, and then there’s this book—the only one you need to create strange, wonderful worlds for your own universe of readers.

A Poetics of Postmodernism

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134986262
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Book Synopsis A Poetics of Postmodernism by : Linda Hutcheon

Download or read book A Poetics of Postmodernism written by Linda Hutcheon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Armies of the Night

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Publisher : Odyssey Editions
ISBN 13 : 1623730236
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)

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Book Synopsis The Armies of the Night by : Norman Mailer

Download or read book The Armies of the Night written by Norman Mailer and published by Odyssey Editions. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Armies of the Night chronicles the famed October 1967 March on the Pentagon, in which all of the old and new Left—hippies, yuppies, Weathermen, Quakers, Christians, feminists, and intellectuals—came together to protest the Vietnam War. Alongside his contemporaries, Mailer went, witnessed, participated, suffered, and then wrote one of the most stark and intelligent appraisals of the 1960s: its myths, heroes, and demons. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a cornerstone of New Journalism, The Armies of the Night is not only a fascinating foray into that mysterious terrain between novel and history, fiction and nonfiction, but also a key chapter in the autobiography of Norman Mailer—who, in this nonfiction novel, becomes his own great character, letting history in all its complexity speak through him.