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A Featured Selection of the Writer's Digest Book Club; chosen by The Writer Magazine as a Best Book of the Year for Writers; compared by the American Library Association's BookList to Strunk and White’s classic The Elements of Style; acclaimed by critics, students and teachers, and adopted by universities across the country, the unique collaboration between a major American novelist and a cutting-edge publisher is back in a revised second edition, bigger and better than ever.

The most useful and entertaining writing book on the market, the updated second edition has new exercises and expanded essays, covering every aspect of writing and publishing fiction and memoir:

• How to begin a piece so that a reader can’t put it down,
• How to create compelling, multi-dimensional characters,
• How professional writers use dialog to carry the load of their story telling,
• How to narrow a strategy for telling the story of your life,
• How to write about painful material without coming off as a victim,
• How to use description to intensify plot,
• How to solve complicated problems of view point,
• How to pin point the problems that keep getting your work rejected,
• How to create an absorbing plot that keeps pace until the end.

Included are hundreds of insider tips, such as:

• The seven most important things to remember when writing about loved ones,
• The ten most destructive things writers do to thwart their careers,
• What no one will tell you about rejection letters,
• FAQ’s about agents and how much writers really earn,
• Writing professional query letters,
• What to do if your work is continually rejected by New York publishers.

Why a second edition and what's new in it?

CATEGORY: Writing / Reference / Memoir / The Novel
PAGES: 328
TRIM: 6 x 9
ISBN: 0-9728984-5-X
Publication Date: August 2005
PRICE: $16.95 / Paperback Original