How to Master the Craft of Writing Fiction and Personal Narrative.
A self-help book for writers by an acclaimed author and a publisher.
In this book, Marge Piercy teams up with novelist and publisher Ira Wood to offer a comprehensive and inspiring guide. Marge has been writing for 45 years and Ira for 25, and for the last ten years they have co-taught two popular master classes on how to write fiction.
Their book offers excellent specific and highly motivating advice on how to:
- Create fully-formed, intriguing characters
- Master the elements of plotting fiction
- Devise a strategy for telling your life story
- Write about painful material well
- Deal with continual rejection
- Learn about agents and how much writers really earn
