Barnaby Conrad. The complete guide to writing fiction

Writer's Digest Books, 1990. — 320 p. — ISBN 0-89879-395-5.A guide for authors, divided into a lot of sections which each tackle a particular topic. Rather an old book now (1990), but the general sections on e.g. character development, endings, themes, description, how to deal with writer's block and rejection, how short stories differ from novels etc are still applicable, it's just the material on the publishing industry which is now out of date and that is a relatively small part of the book.
The book uses a lot of examples, with some quotes, and also advice from a lot of different writers, either classic ones such as Ernest Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald etc, or those who were very popular at the time of publication. Some, who were apparently best sellers, I've never heard of, but a lot are familiar names even if I've never read their books, e.g. Sidney Sheldon. Quite a few extracts come from the various addresses given at the Santa Barbara Writers' Conference which I think was held annually and is still running.Файл: отскан. стр. (b/w 600 dpi) + ClearScan от Adobe Acrobat