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Summary: Informative, entertaining and delightful to read!
Review: This book is laced with humor and wisdom. Kilian is experienced in fantasy, hard science fiction, education and children's literature. He explores the mythological basis of fantasy novels, explaining the importance of Greek, Roman, Celtic, Norse, Egyptian--world mythology, as well as acquiring a strong knowledge of history and philosophies of the world. Equally important to success is a fascination with the genre in which you write. Gaining the information may seem to be an intimidating task; it is necessary.Kilian includes exercises to help generate writing. I followed these exercises, and wrote with the excitement I had greatly missed. He also explains each step of the creative process from the ideas to the finished product with a brief grammar refresher that is easy to read. The examples are humorous. The importance of proper grammar cannot be overstated if you want your book published. Kilian expresses a sense of anger, but when tempered by the humor throughout the book, this becomes righteous indignation directed toward those who try to write in the genre without the seriousness to make it believable. Ultimately his anger
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Summary: Sets Excellent Guidelines
Review: This book is much better than some people may think. Crawford Kilian organizes ideas in a very coherent manner that is easy to read and understand. In fact, most of the tips/steps in this book don't necessarily follow the sci-fi or fantasy genre and can be applied to any type of book genre... This includes storyboarding, outlining, and the character resume. If you're writing any kind of fiction, this book has content that can help you and I highly reccommend it.
Rating: 
Summary: Develop ideas.
Review: This may seem to be out of my normal areas of interest, but one can learn a great deal of strategy from various 'how to' books. This one is well organized and includes creative exercises, such as getting out of a hostile crowd.
Rating:
Summary: Develop ideas.
Review: This may seem to be out of my normal areas of interest, but one can learn a great deal of strategy from various 'how to' books. This one is well organized and includes creative exercises, such as getting out of a hostile crowd.
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