So You Want to Write (2nd Edition): How to Master the Craft of Writing Fiction and Memoir

A featured selection of the Writer’s Digest Book Club; chosen by The Writer Magazine as a Best Book of the Year; compared by the American Library Association to Strunk and White’s classic The Elements of Style; acclaimed by critics, students and teachers and adopted by universities across the country, the unique collaboration between a major American novelist and a publisher is back in a revised second edition, bigger and better than ever.The most useful and entertaining writing book on the market, the updated second edition has new exercises and expanded essays, covering every aspect of writing and publishing fiction and memoir:How to begin a piece so that a reader can’t put it downHow to create compelling charactersHow professional writers use dialogueHow to narrow a strategy for telling the story of your lifeHow to write about painful material without coming off as a victimIncluded are hundreds of insider tips, such as:The seven important things when writing about loved onesThe 10 most destructive things writers doWhat no one will tell you about rejection lettersFAQs about agents and how much writers really earnWhat to do if your work is continually rejected Read more