Techniques of Novel Writing

by A.S. Burack (editor)

Forty outstanding, best-selling novelists share their ideas and experience on various aspects of writing book-lenght fiction in this excellent volume. They give helpful advice and practical answers to such questions as: Where do you get your ideas? What point of view should you use? How do you make the editor and the reader turn the page? Should you start writing from plot or character? Should you make an outline? Do you know how your novel is going to end before you begin?

In this book, the aspiring novelist can find stimulation, inspiration, and instruction on the how-to's of novel writing and selling. TECHNIQUES OF NOVEL WRITING gives tested professional advice and a "behind the typewriter" view of the do's and don'ts practiced by today's leading novelists.

Genres: Nonfiction, Writing

305 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1973

Reviews

[Scarlett Archer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Don't know why this isn't more recommended. A series of essays written by successful writers on different techniques on novel writing. As much as I recommend this for the great pieces of advice suggested, I also recommend it because you gain awareness at the alternating opinions of writers and how it's okay to do whatever you're doing. There is no right way. Each writer has their own best practice an in the book it's as close as the next essay that will defiantly contradict the last.

We writers love the way we do things and absolutely think it's right. And you know what? It is. It is right 100%. Because that's what works for you and gets you most inspired and gets you to the end of every chapter.

So I really think it's important to take what you can from these essays and also see it objectively for what it is. The display of great thinkers and story tellers and the why the difference, the uniqueness, of ideas and practices is so important.

[M · Rating 4 out of 5]

Woo! I finished it! There was a lot of good advice in here. Reading the whole book made me want to write more, so it was successful in that nature. It was nice being able to hear from people of different genres addressing how they solved different issues.

[Laura McChristian · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't care how old it is; it's 100 times better than any writer/author/blahbah that's out there on social media charging a ridiculous amount of money for their bogus "I made 6 figures as a self-published rinky-dink ebook author" advice.

Wanna write a book? Read this. And I got it at the library. I'm gonna try to get my own copy. (I'm self-published, too, by the way.)