Writing Fiction for Dummies

✍ Scribed by Economy, Peter; Ingermanson, Randy

• Book ID: 106921673
• Publisher: For Dummies
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 460 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0470530707

✦ Synopsis

Review

‘...an easy-to-follow guide providing step-by-step instructions...' (Writers Forum, December 2009).

Product Description

A complete guide to writing and selling your novel

So you want to write a novel? Great! That’s a worthy goal, no matter what your reason. But don’t settle for just writing a novel. Aim high. Write a novel that you intend to sell to a publisher. Writing Fiction for Dummies is a complete guide designed to coach you every step along the path from beginning writer to royalty-earning author. Here are some things you’ll learn in Writing Fiction for Dummies:

• Strategic Planning: Pinpoint where you are on the roadmap to publication; discover what every reader desperately wants from a story; home in on a marketable category; choose from among the four most common creative styles; and learn the self-management methods of professional writers.
• Writing Powerful Fiction: Construct a story world that rings true; create believable, unpredictable characters; build a strong plot with all six layers of complexity of a modern novel; and infuse it all with a strong theme.
• Self-Editing Your Novel: Psychoanalyze your characters to bring them fully to life; edit your story structure from the top down; fix broken scenes; and polish your action and dialogue.
• Finding An Agent and Getting Published: Write a query letter, a synopsis, and a proposal; pitch your work to agents and editors without fear.

_Writing Fiction For Dummies_ takes you from being a writer to being an author. It can happen—if you have the talent and persistence to do what you need to do.