Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
About this book
"This all-new definitive guide to writing imaginative fiction takes a completely novel approach and fully exploits the visual nature of fantasy through original drawings, maps, renderings, and exercises to create a spectacularly beautiful and inspiring object. Employing an accessible, example-rich approach, Wonderbook energizes and motivates while also providing practical, nuts-and-bolts information needed to improve as a writer. Aimed at aspiring and intermediate-level writers, Wonderbook includes helpful sidebars and essays from some of the biggest names in fantasy today, such as George R. R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, Catherynne M. Valente, and Karen Joy Fowler, to name a few"--
Subjects
- 808.3
- aesthetics
- composition & creative writing
- creation (literary, artistic, etc.)
- creative writing
- creative writing (elementary education)
- creative writing (higher education)
- english language
- english language, rhetoric
- english language--rhetoric--study and teaching
- english language, study and teaching
- essays
- imagery (psychology)
- imagination
- language arts & disciplines
- language arts & disciplines / composition & creative writing
- language arts & disciplines--composition & creative writing
- literary collections
- literary collections / essays
- literary collections--essays
- literature
- literature--aesthetics
- originality in literature
- pe1404 .v35 2013
- reference
- reference / writing skills
- reference--writing skills
- rhetoric
- study and teaching
- writing skills