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How to write best-selling fiction [digital videodisc] / James Scott Bell, novelist and writing instructor.

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Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2019]

Creative writing.

Fiction -- Technique.

Great courses (DVD). Literature & language. Writing.

4 videodiscs (720 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in + 1 course guidebook (iv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

Disc 1. Tell me a story -- Anatomy of a best seller -- Developing ideas -- The LOCK system: a foundation for your novel -- Structuring your novel -- Act I: the disturbance. Disc 2. Act II: the arena of conflict -- Act III and resolution -- Jump-off-the-page characters -- Bringing characters to life -- Point of view -- The essentials of dazzling dialogue. Disc 3. Tools for talk -- Voice and style -- Make a scene -- Subplots and parallel plots -- Deepening the reader's emotional experience -- First pages that grab the reader. Disc 4. Revising your novel -- Blunders and baloney -- Getting published -- The self-publishing option -- Marketing your work -- Conquering the mental game of writing.

Improve your writing skills and you love of the craft with secrets of the trade from a best-selling, award-winning author.

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