How to Write a Blockbuster - Softcover
The blockbusting novel is the stuff of writers’ dreams. In How to Write a Blockbuster Sarah Harrison draws on her own experience to tell you what you can do to make that dream into a reality.
In this entertaining and inspiring guide she offers advice and observations on:
* What constitutes a blockbuster
* Ideas
* Planning
* Working methods
* Research
* Characterization
* Story
* Style
* Promotion
As well as a wealth of practical information, she covers the less-discussed, but equally important areas of attitude, approach, morale and self-motivation.
In this entertaining and inspiring guide she offers advice and observations on:
* What constitutes a blockbuster
* Ideas
* Planning
* Working methods
* Research
* Characterization
* Story
* Style
* Promotion
As well as a wealth of practical information, she covers the less-discussed, but equally important areas of attitude, approach, morale and self-motivation.
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From the Back Cover:
Packed with authorial anecdote from one of the funniest writers and public speakers currently around, How to Write a Blockbuster is a whirl of a read, taking the budding writer through all the stages of creating 'the BIG book'.
About the Author:
Sarah Harrison is the best-selling author of numerous highly successful novels, including The Grass Memorial, Heaven’s On Hold and That Was Then.
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- PublisherAllison and Busby
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0749001976
- ISBN 13 9780749001971
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