> At 10:37 AM 28/10/96 -0800, Richard Brodie wrote:
>
> >I wholeheartedly agree, and in fact have taken a sharp turn in my
> >writing career in that direction. I am studying storytelling, NLP, and
> >magick (please don't flame me if you don't know what magick is) and plan
> >to create storybooks that communicate more effectively than the
> >nonfiction I have been writing.
> At 10:37 AM 28/10/96 -0800, Richard Brodie wrote:
> >I wholeheartedly agree, and in fact have taken a sharp turn in my
> >writing career in that direction. I am studying storytelling, NLP, and
> >magick (please don't flame me if you don't know what magick is) and plan
> >to create storybooks that communicate more effectively than the
> >nonfiction I have been writing.
>
> Interesting! I too have started researching the craft of storytelling.
> Two books I've recently finished and would recommend:
>
> The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells by Ben Bova
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0898796008/thechurchofvirusA
>
> How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy by Orson Scott Card
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0898794161/thechurchofvirusA
>
> Bova's book covers the traditional story elements: plot, character,
> setting, etc., each in separate story of his own device, and bracketed
> by chapters on theory and analysis.
>
> Card's book discusses a lot of other authors and stories, and mainly
> teaches one how to finish the story you start (not nearly as easy as
> it sounds).
>
> Perhaps the main difference between them is Bova's is from an editor's
> perspective while Card's is more from an author's perspective (though
> Bova is also an author and, in fact "discovered" Card, I think the latter
> is a better writer).
>
> I look forward to seeing your fiction, Richard! Is anyone else writing?
I also play at writing science fantasy. I'll have to look up the text I
use for reference.
I keep links to my fiction at
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~zaimoni/
Porting it is the problem [I have yet to figure out how all of my
MSWindows programs read direct HTML so effortlessly! If I knew that, I
would just save it in that format.]
There are more lucrative things to try to make money at.
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