Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Short Stories

Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Short Stories

This guide to writing compelling, memorable short stories gives you all the essentials without wasted words. It tells you how and where to get ideas, how to establish and sustain excitement, how to create live, colorful characters, and how to plot, develop and bring home your story. It even includes exercises to help you perfect your story-telling skills. Full of tips and techniques that work, it makes an indispensable, reliable collaborator. You'll find it ideal whether you're studying alone or supplementing a creative or fiction writing course, conference or workshop.

  • Format: Paperback | 176 pages
  • Dimensions: 140 x 213 x 15mm | 210g
  • Publication date: 16 Nov 1998
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
  • Imprint: Schaum Outline Series
  • Publication City/Country: New York, United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN10: 0070390770
  • ISBN13: 9780070390775
  • Bestsellers rank: 295,704

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