Writing Fiction Step by Step

This series of more than 200 connected writing exercises assists writers to build short stories or novels. It provides examples and lessons for plot ideas, characters to help shape narratives.’Many writers pooh-pooh the concept of writing exercises. Exercises seem perhaps an unnatural way to approach a seemingly organic process, and it can be hard to see them amounting to anything more than, well, exercises. While the great writers of the past may not have bothered with writing exercises, says Josip Novakovich in his introduction to Writing Fiction Step by Step, “they exercised by writing letters and by keeping journals…

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