In this book, you’ll learn:-How to pick a topic for your book that will bring your readers along until the very end. -How to choose a setting for your book that your readers can understand and mentally insert themselves into.
Author: HowExpert
Publisher: HowExpert
ISBN: 9781647587895
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 51
View: 318
A horror story succeeds if it strikes terror in the reader. A good horror story is like a good ride at an amusement park. Feeling scared without having to face real danger is exhilarating. The story builds with tantalizing ideas.
Author: Laura Baskes Litwin
Publisher: Enslow Publishers
ISBN: 1464400997
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 48
View: 193
New and classic advice and tips from some of the best names in the field are featured in this guide for writers seeking authoritative instruction and inspiration on writing and selling horror. Original. 10,000 first printing.
Author: Mort Castle
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
ISBN: UCSC:32106019176715
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 260
View: 387
This fifth installment in the Now Write! writing-guide series presents speculative fiction-writing exercises from Harlan Ellison, Piers Anthony, Ramsey Campbell and others to help aspiring writers craft a horror, fantasy or science fiction ...
Author: Laurie Lamson
Publisher: TarcherPerigee
ISBN: 9780399165559
Category: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
Page: 367
View: 800
Suitable for classroom use, intensive study, and bedside reading, this essential manual will appeal to new authors at the beginning of their career as well as veterans of the horror genre who want to brush up on their technique.
Author: Tim Waggoner
Publisher: Guide Dog Books
ISBN: 1947879197
Category:
Page: 236
View: 552
Within these essays, Lovecraft explores the origins and traditions of the genre in Britain, America and beyond with special reference to the most notable movements, themes, motifs, techniques, and writers past and present.
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781528790345
Category: Fiction
Page: 104
View: 699
Over the course of nearly fifty years of professional writing, Robert Bloch has
dabbled in a great many types of fiction— fantasy, suspense, science fiction,
humor, and more; but it is apparent that his most successful forte is that of horror
fiction, ...
Author: Darrell Schweitzer
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 9781587150081
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 169
View: 123
Packed with all the information one could need this is the book to set the reader off to a good start in writing science fiction even for those with no previous knowledge. The book shows how to turn ideas into stories that will sell.
Author: Christopher Kenworthy
Publisher: How to Books Limited
ISBN: 1857034562
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 126
View: 113
To understand the answer, it is important to look at the fear itself. Whether you are a novice or writing professional, the prompts contained in this book are designed to give you more food for thought when crafting your creative works.
Author: Christina Escamilla
Publisher:
ISBN: 1974316114
Category:
Page: 266
View: 361
Included in this collection are: Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Shirley Jackson, Rod Serling, Dean Koontz, R. L. Stine, Anne Rice, and Stephen King.
Author: Bob Madison
Publisher: Enslow Pub Incorporated
ISBN: 0766013790
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 104
View: 585
Well, maybe not quite, but you are an expert on writing fiction, and if you write in a
certain genre you are an expert in that: a time and place if you write historical
fiction, crime if you write mysteries or thrillers, horror if you write horror, and so on.
Author: Sam Barry
Publisher: Adams Media
ISBN: 9781605501475
Category: Reference
Page: 240
View: 596
This book is crammed with fertile seeds for fiction that will thrill, disturb or scare your readers. Each prompt comes with a wealth of suggestions for how you can develop it to suit the kind of story you want to write.
Author: Rayne Hall
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 1545482691
Category:
Page: 180
View: 963