For an assignment in my Structure and Style class through UC Davis Extension, we were asked to write a scene, using two shapes of fiction as outlined in Making Shapely Fiction by Jerome Stern: Iceberg and Visitation. Stern’s Iceberg shape of fiction shows how to handle thoughts, dialogue, and action in writing. In this shape, the […]
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Manuscript Makeover
No matter how advanced you are as a writer, it never hurts to take one last look at your manuscript before sending it off to an agent or editor. And Manuscript Makeover, by Elizabeth Lyon, is just the book to help you do it. Lyon spent the last twenty years teaching writing and mentoring writers in classes, critique groups, […]
