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Writing Short Stories

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Hone your craft, diversify short story skills.

If you're looking to sharpen your short story writing, Ailsa Cox's guide is like a personal coach for honing your technique. It doesn't just offer advice; it challenges you to break free from your usual writing habits and experiment with styles and genres you might not have considered before, from stark social observations to imaginative cyberpunk. This isn't just a guide; it's a call to creative adventure in writing.

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Writing Short Stories

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ISBN: 9780415303873
Authors: Ailsa Cox
Publisher: Routledge
Date of Publication: 2005-07-28
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.81
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Ideal for those new to the genre or for anyone who wishes to improve their technique, Ailsa Cox's guide will help readers achieve their full potential as a short story writer. Each chapter of the book introduces key aspects of the craft of short story writing, including structure, dialogue, characterization, viewpoint, narrative voice, and more. It shows how a wide variety of published writers have approached the short story genre, in order to deepen the insights you gain from your own work. The book gets you writing, with a series of original, sometimes challenging but always rewarding exercises, which can be tackled alone or adapted for use in a group. It encourages you to be inventive, to break writing habits, and to try something new, by showing the diversity of the short story genre, from cyberpunk to social observation. Ailsa Cox draws on her experience as a writer to provide essential information on drafting and editing, as well as a rich Resources section, which lists print and online journals that accept the work of new writers. Whether you're writing as part of a course, in a workshop group, or at home alone, this book will equip and inspire you to write better short stories and make you a more skilled, enthusiastic, and motivated writer of short stories.
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Hone your craft, diversify short story skills.

If you're looking to sharpen your short story writing, Ailsa Cox's guide is like a personal coach for honing your technique. It doesn't just offer advice; it challenges you to break free from your usual writing habits and experiment with styles and genres you might not have considered before, from stark social observations to imaginative cyberpunk. This isn't just a guide; it's a call to creative adventure in writing.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.