Reading A Writer's Mind: Exploring Short Fiction – First Thought to Finished Story

Reading A Writer'sMind: Exploring Short Fiction – First Thought to Finished StoryLaunch Offer: 99c /86p
S.A. Linda Acaster isa writer whose name long-standing readers of this blog will recognise for thediverse range of her fiction. But she has another life…

L.A. Ho-ho… I have several actually, but this one began manyyears ago when I was better known for my short fiction. A creative writingtutor at a local Adult Education establishment asked if I'd mind stepping in whileshe visited her sister in Australia.The gig was two hours a week for five weeks.
Those five weeks turned into three years, and along the way Ifound I laid bare the mechanics of my own creative process. A stint with a distancelearning college tutoring creative writing courses honed my explanatory skillson the page, and a host of how-to articles on the techniques of writing fictionfollowed in the writing press both in the UK and the USA. It is thisexperience that has been distilled into ReadingA Writer's Mind: Exploring Short Fiction – First Thought to Finished Story.
I've never been a writer who wrote in one style, in onegenre, using one method of delivery, and this became key to the format of thebook. Taking ten stories, I lead the reader from the initial idea trigger, throughthe story itself, to an in-depth commentary covering the options considered andthe decisions made during the writing. The stories were chosen to highlightparticular techniques within a specific genre, for instance:
* Lyrical narrative v terse dialogue; using tone as adescriptive tool (Mainstream) * A calendar structure using the Tell technique (Women'sFiction)* Working with parallel storylines via past and presenttense (SF)
There are suggestions for experimenting with each set oftechniques discussed, and the book wraps up with a section on common editingconcerns. Like this blogpost, I use an accessible, chatty style and pull nopunches about rewrites and the problems I faced. I aim for my experience tofeed into your fiction.
Other books focusing on aspects of writing fiction are inthe pipeline, each under the banner ReadingA Writer's Mind.
For the rest of September Reading A Writer's Mind: Exploring Short Fiction – First Thought toFinished Story is on a launch offer:
Kindle UK –86pKindle US –99cSmashwordsfor I-Pad, Nook, Sony, Kindle, etc, use the 66% discount code BN46H at checkout.
For more information on all Linda Acaster's work:blog: http://lindaacaster.blogspot.comwebsite: http://www.lindaacaster.comhttp://twitter.com/#!/lindaacaster

For my review of this excellent volume see http://stuartaken.blogspot.com/2011/09/review-of-reading-writers-mind.html  It's just a short scroll down this page!