Year: 1965
Author: Dwight Swain
Genre: Publicism
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0-8061-1191-7
English language
Format: DOC
Number of Pages: 197

The book gives clear instructions for those who want to write and receive money for their books, and not just dream about it. The book immerses in the essence of the process of writing, the essence of special techniques that distinguish a beginner from a professional.
Conflict, and how to build it, the strategy of artistic prose, the structure of the work, the characters, and their development, as well as all the stages of the book: preparation, planning, creation, and sale.
This book is for writers who want not only to create, but also to turn their creativity into cash.

This book provides solid instruction for persons who want to write and sell fiction, not just to talk and study about it. It gives the background, insights, and specific procedures needed by all beginning writers. Here one can learn how to group words into copy that moves, movement into scenes, and scenes into stories; how to develop characters, how to revise and polish, and finally, how to sell the product.
This is the book for writers who want to turn rejection slips into cashable checks.
About the Author:
Dwight V. Swain spent a lifetime writing newspaper and magazine articles, pulp fiction, and screenplays. For more than twenty years he taught in the Professional Writing Program at the University of Oklahoma. His popular book Techniques of the Selling Writer is also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Foreword
Chapter 1. Fiction and You
Chapter 2. The Words You Write
Chapter 3. Plain Facts About Feelings
Chapter 4. Conflict And How To Build It
Chapter 5. Fiction Strategy
Chapter 6. Beginning, Middle, End
Chapter 7. The People In Your Story
Chapter 8. Preparation, Planning, Production
Chapter 9. Selling Your Stories
Chapter 10. You and Fiction
Appendix: For Further Reading

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