Engage Your Readers with Emotion While writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel. The reader's experience must be an emotional journey of its own, one as involving as you
How to write killer fiction: the funhouse of mystery & the roller coaster of suspense
โ Scribed by Carolyn Wheat
- Publisher
- SCB Distributors;Perseverance Press
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 138 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781880284629
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โฆ Synopsis
Writing is all about creating an experience for the reader. Whether you're giving them a brain-teasing puzzle or an adrenaline-soaked emotional roller coaster-ride, this book helps you shape your fiction to create maximum enjoyment for your readers.
Now you can learn the craft directly from one of the most respected contemporary writers in the field, Carolyn What, winner of multitudinous awards and nominations. What knows what editors want, and shows you how to achieve your writing an publishing goals. How To Write Killer Fiction is a handbook that no writer of mystery or suspense can afford to be without.
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