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Writing Genre Fiction:
A Guide to the Craft Several years ago, after many years of writing nonfiction, I decided to write a novel—a medical thriller in the mold of Robin Cook, Michael Crichton, and Michael Palmer. The problem was that, although I knew how to write and had received a number of awards for nonfiction works, I didn’t know how to write fiction. So, before putting fingers to keyboard I did a thorough search of the literature, which included reading numerous books and hundreds of website articles. What I discovered was that there simply wasn’t one good source from which to learn the craft of writing fiction. My research culminated in the publishing of my first novel, Caduceus Awry, which was a finalist in the Eudora Welty Film and Fiction Festival novel writing contest. Writing Genre Fiction: A Guide to the Craft is the book I was looking for when I set out on my quest to learn how to write genre fiction. It is an attempt to share what I learned from my research. It covers the six key elements of genre fiction; the various genres and subgenres; a large number of genre-fiction writing techniques; plot, subplots, and parallel plots; structure; scene and sequel; characterization; dialogue; emotions; and body language. It also covers additional information about copyrighting and plagiarism, where to get ideas, manuscript formatting and revising, and query letters and synopses, In addition, an appendix covers a large number of grammar tips. |
Chapter 1. Key Elements of Genre Fiction - Setting - Time - Place - Experience - Mood - Simultaneity - Special Scenes - Action Scenes - Crowd/Battle Scenes - Death Scenes - Love Scenes Chapter 7. Style and Tone to Verb Strength - Style and Tone - Style - Tone - Symbolism and Allegory - Symbolism - Allegory - Telling versus Showing - Telling - Showing - Time - Transitions - Simple Transitions - Jump-cut Transitions - Chapter Breaks Verb Strength - Active versus Passive Voice - Strong versus Weak Verbs Chapter 8. Plot - Plot Structure - Parallel Plots and Subplots - Parallel Plots - Subplots - Crisis and Challenge - Crisis - Challenge - Conflict and Suspense - Conflict - Suspense - Coincidence - Withholding Information - Story Focus - Plot Driven Story - Idea Driven Story - Character Driven Story - Twenty Basic Plots - Plot Summary - Outlining Chapter 9. Structure - Title - Categories - Importance - Prologue - Types of Prologues - Prologue Test |
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