How to Write Fiction Like a Pro: A Simple-To-Savvy Toolkit for Aspiring Authors - Hardcover

Robert Newton Peck

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9780929895857: How to Write Fiction Like a Pro: A Simple-To-Savvy Toolkit for Aspiring Authors

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0929895851 ISBN 13: 9780929895857

Publisher: Maupin House Publishing, 2006

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In HOW to write fiction like a pro: A simple-to-savvy toolkit for aspiring authors, celebrated author Robert Newton Peck provides emerging writers with the power tools they need to start building their own books. Readers will learn everything from pacing a story and writing dialogue that flows to molding the tangible "stuff" of life into characters and storylines of fiction.

HOW is written in the straightforward, earthy, and humorous voice that fans of Rob's fiction have come to know and love. Informative but not preachy, HOW's lighthearted style immediately engages readers, inspiring them to take up the tools and write from their own lives and their own strengths.

Learning isn't a load. It's laughter.

Aspiring authors are sure to learn--and laugh--as they discover HOW to write fiction like a pro.

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About the Author:

When it comes to writing craft, Robert Newton Peck is an author worth listening to. He is the author of 65 books, including the Mark Twain Award-winning Soup series. His classic, A Day No Pigs Would Die, is required reading in any young adult literature study. Rob's most recent title is Weeds in Bloom, an autobiography.

When he isn't writing, Rob can be found tending his mustang horses, volleying on a tennis court, playing jazz and ragtime on his white Yamaha grand piano, doing stand-up comedy, or teaching audiences HOW to write fiction like a pro.

His favorite hobby? Showing off.

Review:

I loved this book and so will students. Easy to carry to class...Fun to read...Challenging...Demanding. -- Sharilynn La May - high school English teacher, creative writing instructor, and literary magazine advisor.

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