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Good books on writing
Todd Edwards:
I was on the waitlist for the Breakout book at the library, but when it came through, I was out of town for a while and missed my window of opportunity. D'oh. Need to try again.
Kimber L Rose:
If you've read 'The First Five Pages'. then I wouldn't worry about it too much. There's a lot of the same information in both books. I actually like the way that it's formatted in 'Breakout' though, makes more sense to me. It also covers how to grab and keep attention. Gosh, I hope some of it sunk in.
novium:
as I just mentioned on another thread, I liked holly lisle's thing. it's in pdf format here:
http://www.envisionsoftware.biz/hollylisle/muse2-new.pdf
I agree "on writing" was simply fantastic.
Todd Edwards:
Thanks for the Holly Lisle link. Good stuff in there.
Dom:
I'll second...or third...or fourth...or...::gets frustrated, grabs the next number at the counter and waves it around:: Orson Scott Card's books. Both the "How to write Science Fiction and Fantasy" one and his book on characters. I tend to find myself going, "Yep, yep, that's right, yep, hey that makes sense, yep, hey I didn't think of that before, yep..." and so on when I read them.
Also...I've found every book you read can teach you something or other. Takes a bit more brainwork to figure it all out, though, since you have to sit yourself down and go, "Ok, why didn't that work? Why did I like that? Why didn't I like that?" but the bright side is that you don't have to wait for someone else to write a book about it first. :)
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