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Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition

A Guide to Narrative Craft

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By: Janet Burroway, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Ned Stuckey-French
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
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A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Writing Fiction. Janet Burroway's best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for more than three decades, it has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn the craft.  

This new edition continues to provide advice that is practical, comprehensive, and flexible. Burroway's tone is personal and nonprescriptive, welcoming learning writers into the community of practiced storytellers. Moving from freewriting to final revision, the book addresses "showing not telling", characterization, dialogue, atmosphere, plot, imagery, and point of view. It includes new topics and writing prompts. And the examples and quotations throughout the book feature a wide and diverse range of today's best and best-known creators of both novels and short stories.  

This book is a master class in creative writing that also calls on us to renew our love of storytelling and celebrate the skill of writing well. There is a very good chance that one of your favorite authors learned the craft with Writing Fiction. And who knows what future favorite will get her start listening to this edition?

©2019 Janet Burroway, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, and Ned Stuckey-French (P)2019 Tantor Writing & Publishing Fiction Inspiring Short Story Words, Language & Grammar Creative Writing
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Comprehensive Textbook • Valuable Writing Advice • Smooth Voice • Excellent Craft Guidance • Educational Content

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Well read with loads of valuable advice and examples of good writing. Highy recommended to all writers.

Learning to Write

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Expected nothing, but this is great even for advanced readers on writing. Will buy the book also to get the prompts which are read out too fast

Essential

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I feel I have move from infant to adolescent in my writing. Understand more about the agency of the process

The clarity of the laws of writing fiction

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Good book. Packed with information. My only suggestion to whoever downloads the book is to listen to it at 2.1 speed. Even at that speed it sounds like a regular person speaking. The narrator reads very slowly and drags every word.

Packed with information.

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This is as good as it gets for this type of book, but bear in mind that it is a TEXTBOOK written by a university professor and intended originally to be used for college creative writing classes. So, if you’re looking for a conversational, encouraging narrative, look elsewhere (try The War of Art by Pressfield or if you want a writers book on writing, King’s and Lamott’s are great).

If you understand this is a textbook and you want that, you really can’t do better than to buy it. The focus is on literary fiction rather than genre fiction, but you can really write anything with the advice here. The exercises are solid. If you read this book and do the exercises, I can’t guarantee you’ll be a novelist but you’ll certainly have a good foundation and know what type of info and support you need next.

Excellent fiction writing textbook

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