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Writer’s Digest Handbook of Short Story Writing 

Collection of articles from the magazine on the art of short story writing, packed with useful tips and a positive approach to the genre.  

                                                          Creative Writing 4^th Edition   

This useful general guide to writing fiction will show you how to improve every aspect of your writing, including tips on creating believable characters, colourful settings, effective dialogue and intriguing plots.  There’s also a section on submitting your work to a publisher.

£8.99

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Creating Suspense in Fiction

  The author draws on 35 years of writing experience to show you how to develop this essential skill in an easily understood and practical book.  Using examples from bestselling writers, he shows you how to create suspense through memorable characters, tight plots and linked sub-plots, using hooks, cliff-hangers and time limits.  He also goes on to more advanced techniques such as foreshadowing and overlapping.  A really useful book for popular fiction writers.

£10.99

  Thorough guide to reworking your novel, which may be just what you need if you’ve got stuck.  The author looks at 'sacred' first ideas, slow starts, out-of-sequence events, imprecise language, inflated imagery, weak sentence structure, insufficient dialogue, action and description.  He uses contemporary examples to make his points.

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