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[Following is a volunteer review of "Creating Literary Fiction: A Fiction Writer's Guide" by William H. Coles.]
3 out of 4 stars
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Creating library fiction:a fiction writer's guide I like because it is a book with indispensable information for novice writers looking to immerse themselves in the genre fiction. Formulated as a clear and concise manual where the writer based on his experience provides a set of useful tools that porfing the task of writing good stories of ficcion placing certain margins as a fundamental pattern.
This guide specializes in dealing with each of the points that make a ficcion book great. Explains how to bring addicted to characters to life, how to use the narrators to make the most of the plot by using the points of view that add character and credibility to the book's argument. It recommends us to add emotional fragments so that the public is moved and in other cases humorous to make it fun, highlighting that it is not a collection of experiences lived by the author since this does not make reference to the genre of the fiction. He adds quotes from his previous books and from renowned writers to give examples so that everything is much clearer. Also has a special chapter that calls my attention “Why literary Stories” Fail where the problematics that turn a history of fictionality with potential into forgotten books without success are described with prescion to avoid them.
According to William Coles the fiction stories are made to illuminate human conditions and awaken in the reader a certain epiphany that leads him to think differently about a specific subject (the one that is deal with in book) and touch their thought permanently as they have made great writers where their works are more of a gift to humanity rather than opportunities that enlarge their ego. Chapter 11 about how to add the second person to the narrative is very useful even for established writers.
Quotes such as "Authors must never be satisfied with mediocrity" encourage reading writers who demand exemption from themselves.
In general the book is written correctly with minimal exceptions as the presence of gramtical fillers.
Chapter 2
Complexity first paragraph excess of the word "character" nine times repeated.
In the next chapters the draftation was exceptional and very clear.
This guide will be of great help to many who wish to practice this profession. The material is of an appreciable quality and Coles tries to enlarge the reading and create the one that is worth educating new writers to fulfill their work. I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars because it is a good book with some mistakes, not exceptional nor regular.
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3 out of 4 stars
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Creating library fiction:a fiction writer's guide I like because it is a book with indispensable information for novice writers looking to immerse themselves in the genre fiction. Formulated as a clear and concise manual where the writer based on his experience provides a set of useful tools that porfing the task of writing good stories of ficcion placing certain margins as a fundamental pattern.
This guide specializes in dealing with each of the points that make a ficcion book great. Explains how to bring addicted to characters to life, how to use the narrators to make the most of the plot by using the points of view that add character and credibility to the book's argument. It recommends us to add emotional fragments so that the public is moved and in other cases humorous to make it fun, highlighting that it is not a collection of experiences lived by the author since this does not make reference to the genre of the fiction. He adds quotes from his previous books and from renowned writers to give examples so that everything is much clearer. Also has a special chapter that calls my attention “Why literary Stories” Fail where the problematics that turn a history of fictionality with potential into forgotten books without success are described with prescion to avoid them.
According to William Coles the fiction stories are made to illuminate human conditions and awaken in the reader a certain epiphany that leads him to think differently about a specific subject (the one that is deal with in book) and touch their thought permanently as they have made great writers where their works are more of a gift to humanity rather than opportunities that enlarge their ego. Chapter 11 about how to add the second person to the narrative is very useful even for established writers.
Quotes such as "Authors must never be satisfied with mediocrity" encourage reading writers who demand exemption from themselves.
In general the book is written correctly with minimal exceptions as the presence of gramtical fillers.
Chapter 2
Complexity first paragraph excess of the word "character" nine times repeated.
In the next chapters the draftation was exceptional and very clear.
This guide will be of great help to many who wish to practice this profession. The material is of an appreciable quality and Coles tries to enlarge the reading and create the one that is worth educating new writers to fulfill their work. I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars because it is a good book with some mistakes, not exceptional nor regular.
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Creating Literary Fiction: A Fiction Writer's Guide
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