By Dwight V. Swain
This publication offers stable guideline for people who are looking to write and promote fiction, not only to speak and examine approximately it. It offers the history, insights, and particular approaches wanted by way of all starting writers. the following you can actually easy methods to workforce phrases into replica that strikes, stream into scenes, and scenes into tales; how one can increase characters, tips on how to revise and varnish, and eventually, how you can promote the product.This is the publication for writers who are looking to flip rejection slips into cashable tests.
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The Marine Band playing “The Halls of Montezuma” brought one type of emotion . . a guitar and “La Paloma” another. Your father’s death, your sister’s marriage, snowflakes drifting down, the smell of wood smoke, angry words, soft whispers, a scornful laugh, the comedian whose pants fall down, puppies’ warm cuddlesomeness . . to one and all of them, you react. With feelings. In some of us, these feelings are more intense than they are in others; and, they’re aroused by different stimuli and situations.
Looking at anything in a new way takes nerve. Why? Because other people may see it from a different angle. Whereupon, out of disagreement may spring disapproval. ” Or an editor—“. . ” Or a friend—“. . ” Voices like that sap your courage. They drain away your spirit. They make you want to run and hide, or lock a mask over your thoughts and feelings . . and never, never, never write again. Don’t listen to them. “A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong,” mystery specialist Raymond Chandler once warned.
How do you master all the varied techniques? By writing stories. Which is to say, by being willing to be wrong. Then, having been wrong, you check back through your stuff for process errors . . places where you skipped over steps, or went off the path, or started with the road map upside down. Do that enough times, on enough stories, and eventually you’ll learn. Won’t exercises give the same result less painfully? Regrettably, no; at least, not in my experience. The man who cottons to exercises generally isn’t cut out to be a fiction writer.