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    Elements of Fiction Writing - Beginnings, Middles & Ends

    By Nancy Kress

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    Get Your Readers' Attention And Keep It From the First World to the Final Page

    Translating that initial flash of inspiration into a complete story requires careful crafting. So how do you keep your story from beginning slowly, floundering midway, and trailing off at the end? Nancy Kress shows you effective solutions for potential problems at each stage of your story--essential lessons for strong start-to-finish storytelling.

    • Hook readers, agents, and editors in the first three paragraphs.
    • Make and keep your story's implicit promise to the reader.
    • Build drama and credibility by controlling your prose.
    • Consider the price a writer pays for flashbacks.
    • Reveal character effectively throughout your story.
    Get the tools you need to get your story off to an engaging start, keep the middle tight and compelling, and make your conclusion high impact. You'll also find dozens of exercises to help strengthen your short story or novel. Let this resource be your guide to successful storiesfrom the first word to the last.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWriter's Digest Books
    Release dateFeb 25, 2011
    ISBN9781599632230
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    Elements of Fiction Writing - Beginnings, Middles & Ends
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    Nancy Kress

    Nancy Kress is the author of more than thirty books, including novels, short story collections, and nonfiction books about writing. Her work has won six Nebulas, two Hugos, a Sturgeon, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. She expanded two of her Nebula Award winners into successful trilogies: the novella Yesterday's Kin into a trilogy (Tomorrow's Kin, If Tomorrow Comes, and Terran Tomorrow), and the novelette "The Flowers of Aulit Prison" into the Probability Trilogy. Kress’s work has been translated into two dozen languages, including Klingon, none of which she can read. She lives in Seattle with her husband, writer Jack Skillingstead, and Cosette, the world’s most spoiled toy poodle.

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