Troubleshooting Your Novel

Essential Techniques for Identifying and Solving Manuscript Problems

Steven James (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2016
Writer's Digest Books (Verlag)
9781599639802 (ISBN)

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So you've completed the first draft of a novel-now what? Chances are, it's not a perfect, publishable manuscript ... at least not yet. Troubleshooting Your Novel takes readers through 100 issues that their novel might face and presents practical, hands-on instruction for taking their fiction from good to great.

Authors can tell when a novel is close to completion-they can feel it. They might have worked on their manuscript for months, maybe even years, and they're ready to send it in.

Well ... almost ready.

There's something that's just not quite right about the story, the plot, the characters-but they're not sure. They sense that it's weak somewhere, but they're not sure how to strengthen it, or it's too flabby and they don't know where to trim it, or it has dead spots and they're not certain how to ratchet up the tension.

Whatever the issue, to publish their novel successfully, authors must make sure their stories are the sharpest they can possibly be before they send them to an agent or editor, or before they launch into the self-publishing realm.

Troubleshooting Your Novel allows authors to pinpoint the issues that plague their manuscripts-and offers practical, easy ways to fix the issues and strengthen the story overall. Award-winning novelist Steven James guides them through the process of making their books the best they can be.

Steven James is the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of ten novels. He has a master's degree in storytelling and is a contributing editor to Writer's Digest. His groundbreaking book on the craft of writing, Story Trumps Structure, was released in 2014. Best known for his intense thrillers, he has received more than a dozen honors and awards for his novels including three Christy Awards for best suspense. His book The Queen was a finalist for an International Thriller Award. Suspense Magazine praises his forthcoming novel, Checkmate, as, "A perfectly crafted hard-hitting, intense thriller," and Publishers Weekly calls James "[A] master storyteller at the peak of his game." When he's not writing, trail running or watching science fiction movies, he teaches creative storytelling around the world.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2016
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 206 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781599639802 / 9781599639802
Zustand	Neuware