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St Martins Press How to Write a Damn Good Novel II by James Frey
Damn good fiction is dramatic fiction whether by Hemingway or Grisham Le Carre or Ludlum Austen or Dickens. Despite their differences these authors works share common elements: strong narrative lines fascinating characters steadily building conflicts and satisfying conclusions. James N. Freys How to Write a Damn Good Novel is one of the most widely used guides ever published for aspiring authors who wish to write dramatic fiction. Now in How to Write a Damn Good Novel II Frey offers powerful advanced techniques to build suspense create fresher more interesting characters and achieve greater reader sympathy empathy and identification. Frey also warns against the pseudorules often inflicted upon writers rules such as The author must always be invisible and You must stick to a single viewpoint in a scene which cramp the imagination and deaden the narrative. He focuses instead on promises that the author makes to the reader promises about character narrative voice story type and so on which must be kept if the reader is to be satisfied. Honest and often painfully funny about the way writers sometimes fail their readers and themselves How to Write a Damn Good Novel II should be on every fiction writers shelf.show more