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Loading... Fiction First Aid: Instant Remedies for Novels, Stories, and Scripts (original 2001; edition 2002)by Raymond Obstfeld (Author)
Work InformationFiction First Aid: Instant Remedies for Novels, Stories, and Scripts by Raymond Obstfeld (2001)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. There are a few tips in this book that are worth reading. The author clearly knows his stuff. Yet his inability to tell the difference between personal pet peeves and more general rules of good writer's craft is persistent. The beginning writer should be cautious with this book. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Every writer struggles with spots that "just aren't working"in their manuscript. No other book on the market approaches works like Fiction First Aid does, which quickly shows how seemingly fatal errors can become both manageable and fixable. Novice and more experienced writers alike will appreciate the book's techniques for identifying and revising weaknesses in their work. Fiction First Aid shows how to repair those wounded manuscripts through easy-to-follow steps, patterned after those found in your typical first-aid manual: 1) Diagnose the problem 2) Suggest specific remedies 3) Prescribe therapies to avoid the problem in the future It couldn't be any easier! Raymond Obstfeld is the author of 27 novels in a variety of genres, including mysteries, suspense thrillers, and mainstream novels and The Novelist's Essential Guide to Creating Scenes. He has also sold ten screenplays, thirteen books of nonfiction, numerous short stories, poems, and nonfiction articles. He resides in Tustin, California, and heads the writing program at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa. No library descriptions found. |
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