About the book: Lights! Camera! Fiction!
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Most people learn to write fiction by trial and error, writing and rewriting until they find scenes that work to tell their story. Even then, it isn't always easy to understand why the scene works or fits together with other pieces to form an effective tale. Understanding often comes gradually.
The storytelling in movies provides the experience a fiction writer needs to fully understand what makes a carefully planned plot or a character actually work. Movies give the writer a head start...if you know what to look for. That's where Lights! Camera! Fiction! comes in.
Lights! Camera! Fiction! examines specific movie scenes to show how and why they do the job the screenwriter wanted them to do. Movies give insight into the sometimes mysterious process of storytelling and readers of the book will learn to create similarly effective scenes in their own writing.
An additional benefit? The strong images in movies make learning faster, easier and a lot more fun.
Quick Tips, scattered throughout each chapter, help the writer use the lessons on the printed page of his next manuscript.
Quick Fixes help the writer pinpoint problems in what he has already written.
Each chapter in the book highlights a topic, such as suspending disbelief, using an 'assigned' movie to watch.
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