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Product Description: Organized by the elements of fiction and comprised primarily of writing exercises, this text helps students hone and refine their craft with a practical, hands-on approach to writing fiction.
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9780205616886 | 3 edition (Longman Pub Group, August 27, 2009), cover price $57.33 | About this edition: Organized by the elements of fiction and comprised primarily of writing exercises, this text helps students hone and refine their craft with a practical, hands-on approach to writing fiction.

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Product Description: Realize All That Is Possible in Your FictionWriters have long turned to exercises for help with beginning–be it a new piece of fiction, a daily routine, or a serious writing life. Behind the theory of exercises is an attitude of curiosity and expectancy, a desire to ask questions of yourself and of the world, to boldly–or not so boldly–stick a toe into the waters of something fresh, provocative, and exhilarating...read more
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9781582975634, titled "The 4 A.M. Breakthrough: Unconventional Writing Exercises That Transform Your Fiction" | Writers Digest Books, January 7, 2009, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Realize All That Is Possible in Your FictionWriters have long turned to exercises for help with beginning–be it a new piece of fiction, a daily routine, or a serious writing life.

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Product Description: Master the Elements of the Writing WorkshopThe great paradox of the writing life is that to be a good writer, you must be both interested in the world around you and comfortable working in solitude for hours on end. Fiction Writer's Workshop, Second Edition, is designed to help you foster a strong sense of independence–of being and thinking on your own, of becoming self-evaluative without being self-critical–in order to accomplish what others seek in classroom groups...read more
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9781884910036 | Story Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Master the Elements of the Writing WorkshopThe great paradox of the writing life is that to be a good writer, you must be both interested in the world around you and comfortable working in solitude for hours on end.

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9781582975368, titled "Fiction Writer's Workshop" | 2 edition (Writers Digest Books, July 11, 2008), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Master the Elements of the Writing WorkshopThe great paradox of the writing life is that to be a good writer, you must be both interested in the world around you and comfortable working in solitude for hours on end.
9781884910395, titled "Fiction Writer's Workshop" | Story Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Discusses setting, character, plot, point of view, dialogue, voice, revising one's work, and other aspects of writing fiction, and suggests exercises for apprentice authors

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A collection of personal writing exercises and commentary from some of today's top novelists, short story authors, and writing teachers includes Jill McCorkle's strategies for developing plot options, Amy Bloom's recommendations about writing through workshops, and Steve Almond's shortcuts for writing effectively. Original.
By Sherry Ellis (editor)
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9781585425228 | J P Tarcher, September 7, 2006, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A collection of personal writing exercises and commentary from some of today's top novelists, short story authors, and writing teachers includes Jill McCorkle's strategies for developing plot options, Amy Bloom's recommendations about writing through workshops, and Steve Almond's shortcuts for writing effectively.

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Amazon.com Review: If you've got friends who are fiction writers, watch out: "Writers are spies, liars, and thieves," writes Robin Hemley in Turning Life into Fiction, and your words, deeds, and character--benevolent and malevolent alike--could be immortalized in print some day...read more
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9781884910005 | 1 edition (Story Pr, September 1, 1994), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Shows how to use personal and family experiences to develop characters, plots, settings, and conversations

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9781555974442 | Graywolf Pr, April 27, 2006, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Amazon.
9781884910371 | Story Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Shows how to use personal and family experiences to develop characters, plots, settings, and conversations

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The director of the creative writing program at the University of Denver offers his best advice for writers, revealing how to help writers overcome anxieties, break from from limiting processes, and identify mental processes at work. Original.
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9781582973517 | 1 edition (Writers Digest Books, August 5, 2005), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: The director of the creative writing program at the University of Denver offers his best advice for writers, revealing how to help writers overcome anxieties, break from from limiting processes, and identify mental processes at work.

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Product Description: Organized by the elements of fiction and comprised primarily of writing exercises, this text helps students hone and refine their craft with a practical, hands-on approach to writing fiction.
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9780321107176 | 2 sub edition (Longman Pub Group, December 1, 2003), cover price $56.80 | About this edition: Organized by the elements of fiction and comprised primarily of writing exercises, this text helps students hone and refine their craft with a practical, hands-on approach to writing fiction.
9780321026859 | 2nd edition (Addison-Wesley, May 1, 2000), cover price $22.01
9780673990020 | Rev sub edition (Harpercollins College Div, January 1, 1997), cover price $36.00 | About this edition: The fundamentals of fiction in a series of revealing exercises.
9780823050055 | Rev exp edition (Watson-Guptill Pubns, January 1, 1995), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: What If?
9780062720061 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins, November 1, 1991), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: What If?

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Product Description: Nicolas Delbanco explores the stories and techniques of twelve stylists, from Ernest Hemingway to Jamaica Kincaid, and encourages students to imitate the craft of these master storytellers as they hone their own fiction writing skills. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780072414714 | McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, October 1, 2003, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Nicolas Delbanco explores the stories and techniques of twelve stylists, from Ernest Hemingway to Jamaica Kincaid, and encourages students to imitate the craft of these master storytellers as they hone their own fiction writing skills.

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Amazon.com Review: There is a page in The Novelist's Notebook for figuring out what keeps you from beginning your novel, and one for imagining your characters 20 or 40 years after your story ends. Author Laurie Henry offers paths for finding a subject, and for reaching a story's dénouement...read more
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9781884910425 | Story Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Amazon.

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Product Description: The Graceful Lie actively involves writers in a process that is at once personally relevant and grounded in scholarship. Through explanations, exercises and readings, it articulates the innovative ideas and practices of today's fiction writing while exposing readers to fictional subgenres that other texts mention sporadically, but don't explore in a systematic way...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780132874182 | Prentice Hall, January 1, 1999, cover price $89.80 | About this edition: The Graceful Lie actively involves writers in a process that is at once personally relevant and grounded in scholarship.

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Product Description: An illuminating guide to finding one's most powerful writing tool, Finding Your Writer's Voice helps writers learn to hear the voices that are uniquely their own. Mixing creative inspiration with practical advice about craft, the book includes chapters on:Accessing raw voiceListening to voices of childhood, public and private voices, and colloquial voicesWorking in first and third person: discovering a narrative personaUsing voice to create charactersShaping one's voice into the form of a storyReigniting the energy of voice during revision...read more
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9780312114657 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, October 1, 1994), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Suggests exercises for finding one's natural writing voice, tells how to work with first- and third-person narration, and offers advice on revision

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9780312151287 | Griffin, January 1, 1997, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: An illuminating guide to finding one's most powerful writing tool, Finding Your Writer's Voice helps writers learn to hear the voices that are uniquely their own.

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Product Description: "Writer's Mind: Crafting Fiction" tells you in an entertaining yet authoritative manner all about the creative writing process: from imagining storylines to writing a first draft to publication.
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9780844258195 | Ntc Pub Group, November 1, 1994, cover price $36.76 | About this edition: "Writer's Mind: Crafting Fiction" tells you in an entertaining yet authoritative manner all about the creative writing process: from imagining storylines to writing a first draft to publication.

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9780844258645 | Ntc Pub Group, December 1, 1995, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: "Writer's Mind: Crafting Fiction" tells you in an entertaining yet authoritative manner all about the creative writing process: from imagining storylines to writing a first draft to publication.

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9780155014145 | Harcourt College Pub, January 1, 1995, cover price $47.95

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Product Description: Willis treats the writing of fiction as a natural process that anyone can do with pleasure. The book includes over 400 helpful writing assignments for all age levels. In addition, teachers will appreciate the appendixes on writing ideas according to age level, other books on writing, and magazines that publish student writing...read more
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9780915924134 | Teachers & Writers, November 1, 1984, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Willis treats the writing of fiction as a natural process that anyone can do with pleasure.

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Product Description: Willis treats the writing of fiction as a natural process that anyone can do with pleasure. The book includes over 400 helpful writing assignments for all age levels. In addition, teachers will appreciate the appendixes on writing ideas according to age level, other books on writing, and magazines that publish student writing...read more
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9780915924622 | 2 revised edition (Teachers & Writers, April 1, 2000), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Willis treats the writing of fiction as a natural process that anyone can do with pleasure.
9789990018325 | 2 revised edition (Teachers & Writers, June 1, 1981), cover price $0.02

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