Blueprint for Writing: A Writer's Guide to Creativity, Craft & Career

Ballon, Rachel Friedman

ISBN 10: 1565651251 / ISBN 13: 9781565651258

Published by Lowell House, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blueprint for Writing: A Writer's Guide to Creativity, Craft & Career
• Publisher: Lowell House
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565651251
• ISBN 13: 9781565651258
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Offers a step-by-step guide to making an original concept into a finished work, covers character, plot, and dialog, and shows how to prepare a manuscript for submission

Reviews

Ballon, a writing teacher and columnist, offers this step-by-step plan for crafting stories for television movies, motion pictures, short stories, sitcoms, and novels. Originally written for her own classes and workshops, the book describes the "Balloncing Method," a melding of creativity, craft, and career that results in a productive, marketable author. Ballon demystifies the writing process by showing how to tap into your unconscious to increase creativity and decrease roadblocks. She also stresses structure and characterization, demonstrating how would-be authors can plumb the inner depths of their characters in order to develop more complex, memorable ones. Exercises at the end of each chapter engage the motivated reader/writer but cannot substitute for in-class participation and criticism. Recommended for libraries serving large populations of writers.
Cathy Sabol, Northern Virginia Community Coll., Manassas
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