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items A focused collection of craft books that deepen and extend the lessons in Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded): The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction. Each title supports speculative and imaginative writers with structure, emotion, inclu...
Essential for speculative and imaginative fiction writers, this revised and expanded edition adds roughly 50 pages of new diagrams, illustrations, and exercises to the original visual guide. Its full-color maps, drawings, and process visuals help you...
Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded): The Illustrated Guide to ...
The original edition of Wonderbook remains a powerful standalone resource for aspiring and intermediate writers of fantasy, science fiction, and other imaginative genres. It combines bold artwork, maps, and exercises with sidebars and essays from aut...
Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
This guide adapts the popular Save the Cat! screenwriting method to novels, laying out 15 key “beats” and ten story genres that show how successful stories are structured from opening image to finale. It is especially helpful for writers who love Won...
The Last Book On Novel Writing You'll Ever Need ...
Focused specifically on young adult fiction, this volume applies the Save the Cat! beat sheet and ten story genres to YA narratives and their common character arcs. It breaks down the emotional and structural expectations of YA readers, helping you a...
Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel: The Ultimate Guide to ...
Story Genius guides you step-by-step from first spark to a complete, multilayered story blueprint rooted in a protagonist's internal struggle, drawing on cognitive and narrative science about what readers' brains crave. It emphasizes building causall...
Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and ...
Donald Maass focuses on making readers feel, teaching emotional modes of writing, moral stakes, and ways to connect inner and outer story journeys so that a novel becomes an experience rather than just a narrative. Exercises and examples show how to ...
The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface
Ursula K. Le Guin's concise handbook drills into core narrative elements such as sentence rhythm, point of view, and tense, each chapter paired with exercises suitable for solo use or groups. It is particularly valuable for writers who already engage...
Steering The Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea ...
Matthew Salesses interrogates how conventional craft rules and workshop models arise from specific white, male cultural assumptions and can marginalize other storytelling traditions. Drawing on examples from One Thousand and One Nights, A Wizard of E...
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
Debra Dixon's classic text distills character-driven plotting into three linked pillars - goal, motivation, and conflict - charting both external and internal arcs across a story. It shows how to prevent sagging middles, clarify stakes, and design be...
Goal, Motivation and Conflict: The Building Blocks of Good Fiction ...