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By Cunning & Craft: Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for fiction writers
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ISBN 9781582974910
REGISTERED: 02/27/19
UPDATED: 02/05/26
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By Cunning and Craft: Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for Fiction Writers

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  • By Cunning and Craft : Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for Fiction Writers available on August 07 2023 from BiggerBooks for 12.73
  • By Cunning and Craft: Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for Fiction Writers available on November 21 2014 from Amazon for $0.01
  • ISBN bar code 9781582974910 ξ4 registered August 07 2023
  • ISBN bar code 9781582974910 ξ3 registered November 21 2014
  • ISBN bar code 9781582974910 ξ1 registered June 08 2012
  • ISBN bar code 9781582974910 ξ2 registered May 19 2012
  • Product category is By Cunning and Craft : Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for Fiction Writers, 9781582974910, Book, Textbook Book
  • Manufacturered by Writer's Digest Books

  • # 9781582974910U
  • # 2-1582974918

  • Product weight is 0.73 lbs. 

     

     

     

     
 

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    ^  (2012). By Cunning and Craft: Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for Fiction Writers  (revised Dec 2013)
    ^  (2012). By Cunning & Craft: Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for fiction writers, Writer's Digest Books.  (revised May 2012)
    ^ By Cunning and Craft: Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for Fiction Writers, Writer's Digest Books. Amazon.  (revised Nov 2014)
    ^  (2014). By Cunning and Craft : Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for Fiction Writers, F & W Media Inc. BiggerBooks.  (revised Aug 2023)

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This book is fun to read. Better than that, it will teach aspiring writers, practicing writers, and people who just love to read a lot about the machinery beneath a novel's surface that makes it go. The author shares his considerable wisdom about characters, point of view, structure, dialogue, description, style, and, most challinging of all, revision and publication. "Good dialogue isn't realistic," he warns; the author must control the release of information, he reveals, and "keep your notebook handy,"..
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The cover of By Cunning & Craft promises us "sound advice and practical wisdom for fiction writers." Author Peter Selgin makes good on this with a lively and insightful book that respects its readers' intelligence while offering clear, crisp guidance. With the opening Fitzgerald quote of "All good writing is swimming underwater and holding your breath," Selgin plunges right in. His style is both scholarly and playful (referencing The Wizard of Oz, James Joyce and Hamburger Helper within lines of each other..
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This is one of the best books I've ever read on fiction writing. I think even for non-writers it would be a fun read. I'm an aspiring novelist and as I read this book I started sticking post-its on the pages with ideas and points to take straight to my writing. But I stopped doing that since almost every other page was getting a post it. Selgin's writing is rich and full of detail and makes you feel like you're hanging out with someone who's really excited about his subject -- writing fiction. Here's what h..
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