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"Providing comfort food and inspiration for the aspiring novelist, How To Write a Novel in 20 Pies offers novelist and writing coach Amy Wallen’s insider secrets on living the writing life. Filled with chapters about writing, revising, submitting to an agent, and book promotion, this book combines Wallen's experienced writing advice with the brilliant illustrations of Emil Wilson, including recipes for literary success and the full recipes for 20 sweet and savory pies.
As a novelist, memoirist, and associate director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute, Amy Wallen has a few things to say about the writing world, many of them irreverent and snarky. From her perspective as a teacher, mentor, and published...>>
"Learn Fun and Creative Ways to Enhance Your Descriptions!
The advice, tools, and reference lists in this guidebook will inspire writers to create original and vibrant depictions of characters, locations, weather, and mood that can greatly enhance anyone’s storytelling, whether you’re writing adult, young adult, or children’s fiction.
Fictional and real settings are much more effective, dramatic, and evocative when they’re visible, auditory, olfactory, and tactile.
Character depictions are much more imaginative, lifelike, and vivid for readers when a character has intriguing physical qualities and distinctive, memorable features.
Each chapter provides practical tools to make writing descriptions and crafting lifelike characters simple and fun, with plenty of examples to highlight each point.
This valuable reference book offers writers simplified...>>