num_pages: 224
description: This book offers practical advice on every aspect of writing novels and short stories: plotting and narrative development, characterization and dialogue, sources of material, planning an opening, roughing out chapters, using suspense and emotional color, rewriting and highlighting and much more. Examples drawn from the works of outstanding writers, past and present, illustrate each point, making this the perfect handbook for professional writers and students.
language: English
title: Fiction Writer's Handbook
titlecomplete: Fiction Writer's Handbook
genres: Reference, Nonfiction, Writing
ratings_count: 78
publisher: Harper Perennial