Novelists Essential Guide to Crafting Scenes

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Summary: wow!
Review: this book should be more popular than the bible

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Summary: Good writer's manual - fiction & screenplays
Review: This is an excellent instuctional book for anyone interested in writing fiction or screenplays.

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Summary: Not been to writers' conference? This is a good start.
Review: This is one of the best three books. I like "Writing Fiction" by Janet Burroway and "Writing Dialogue" by Tom Chiarella. "Crafting Scenes" is a fast read, a broad outline, and doesn't waste your time. I would give it five stars for content, organization and advice and remove one star for the uneven quality of his example-paragraphs---some of which are perfectly on target, others less so.

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Summary: Not been to writers' conference? This is a good start.
Review: This is one of the best three books. I like "Writing Fiction" by Janet Burroway and "Writing Dialogue" by Tom Chiarella. "Crafting Scenes" is a fast read, a broad outline, and doesn't waste your time. I would give it five stars for content, organization and advice and remove one star for the uneven quality of his example-paragraphs---some of which are perfectly on target, others less so.

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Summary: Rock- solid advice from a rock-solid author
Review: Tired of wading through books that offer little more than encouragement and the standard blase questions about writing what you know? ...And from "authors" whom you even wonder have really been published other than churning out the sporadic "How To" books? If this is you and you're looking for some actual techniques that you can USE, you'll find this one a definite help. Written by a writer who leaps genres and delivers more reliably than the Fed EX guy, you can tell this is written by someone who really knows what they're talking about. Highly recommended!

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Summary: Rock- solid advice from a rock-solid author
Review: Tired of wading through books that offer little more than encouragement and the standard blase questions about writing what you know? ...And from "authors" whom you even wonder have really been published other than churning out the sporadic "How To" books? If this is you and you're looking for some actual techniques that you can USE, you'll find this one a definite help. Written by a writer who leaps genres and delivers more reliably than the Fed EX guy, you can tell this is written by someone who really knows what they're talking about. Highly recommended!

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Summary: A Good Resource For Writers
Review: Whether you are a beginning writer or a veteran, this book can be a big help. Raymond Obstfeld points out common mistakes writers make, while at the same time gently guiding the reader down the path to better writing. From knowing how long to make a scene to creating the right mix of action and suspense in a chapter, this book is full of usefull tips and absolute rules of the trade.

The book is easy to read, easy to comprehend, and full of great advice. There are TIP highlights and Instant Workshop assignments that make the book a lot like a college course in writing. Some writing books try and hit you with so much advice that you feel overwhelmed by the advice. Not so with this book. Raymond Obstfeld manages to give us just enough of what writers need to understand and work on. I found the book to be extremely helpful.

If you want to know how to make a scene more memorable, keep the action moving without ignoring too much detail, or create cliffhanger endings that keep a reader engaged in your work, you'll want to purchase this book on writing. It's fifteen chapters of good advice for all writers.


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Summary: Yowza, baby!!
Review: Yowza, baby! This book was coolio to the maximus, man!
I sayz check this bad boy of a book out! Me outta here. Peace!