Story Starters Paperback, trade - 1998
by Stanek, Lou W
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
For authors who have the passion and energy to write fiction, but have trouble finding an idea and getting started, writing instructor and author Lou Willett Stanek shows how to get inspiration from neighbors and strangers, reshape classic tales, cull current events, and use other tricks of the writing trade so effectively that the reader will soon be brimming with ideas, imagination revved to its full potential.
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- Title Story Starters
- Author Stanek, Lou W
- Binding Paperback, Trade
- Edition 1st Printing
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Avon, 1998
- Date 1998-04-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 25522
- ISBN 9780380795529 / 0380795523
- Weight 0.37 lbs (0.17 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.27 x 0.55 in (20.57 x 13.39 x 1.40 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Fiction - Authorship, Creative writing
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97039645
- Dewey Decimal Code 808.02
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From the rear cover
What If . . .
. . . every classmate passed the bar exam--except one?
. . . the killer left a calling card--the ace of spades?
. . . she was a sleeping beauty--
but it wasn't prince's kiss that woke her up?
. . .he had history of obsessive behavior--
and then he developed a passion for. . .
Thousands of Stories Are Just Waiting to be Told--By You
If you have the passion and energy to write fiction, but have trouble finding an idea and getting started, this is the perfect book for you. Lou Willett Stanek has helped scores of new authors in her acclaimed writing workshops--and now she shows you how to look and listen, how to find stories and begin shaping them like a writer.
Here's how to find inspiration from neighbors and strangers, reshape classic tales, cull current events and use other tricks of the writing trade so effectively you'll soon find yourself brimming with ideas, your imagination revved to its full potential. Begin with a snippet of overheard conversation, an unexpected event, a simple character trait, a place, a problem--Ms. Stanek teaches you to get past "what really happened" and reinvent reality in ways that will astound and delight you, and hold a reader's attention.
Here too are hundreds of "what-ifs," simple situations you can guide to endlessly different conclusions--and use to learn new ways to fashion plot, describe character, develop conflict, paint with language, create a setting, employ flashbacks, build suspense, and much, much more. For every writer who could use a jump-start, from novice to pro, here is a book that will help you keep the faith and. . .
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