These essential craft books will sharpen your skills as a fiction writer and reader.
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How do you signal the boundaries of your story world?
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Almost two decades of working with other writers have shown me a few models of how creative work can be done successfully: the clockwork model or the cyclical one.
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For all the talk of "NYC vs. MFA" in the writing world, I think everyone believes that fiction has the best chance of success when a skilled writer is able to execute exactly what they set out to do.
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Every author struggles for writing success on three levels: career success, project success, and process success.
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How to use small emotional steps to create character and plot development in a scene.
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How to diagnose problems in your fiction, scene by scene. Self-revise to see the difference (and spend less on editing down the road).
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