Greetings Fellow Scribes,
Enjoying the Thayer book thus far. Any other must-reads for novel writing?
I hit the Pause button on my novel for now as the screenwriting thing (see: weird format/exposition tools/etc.) was seeping into my manuscript so I figured I would read some books on the book writing craft in the meantime.
One thing that struck me about the Thayer book, right off the bat, is that he states in the Introduction 'most manuscripts are not finished and out of those most are not published'. In the screenwriting world it's likely most scripts are actually completed, but out of the finished ones most are not produced.
Cheers,
~Mike
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How to Write a Damn Good Mystery by James N. Frey.
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Kerry Williams SACRIFICE-Amazon
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Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott - "One shitty page a day gets a novel written."
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Susan Wile That's great haha
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I love Save the Cat Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody, Story Genius by Deborah Crom & The War of Art by Stephen Pressfield. Good luck to you!
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Vanessa Lillie Good stuff, I had no idea there's a Save the Cat! novel version, thanks!
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Vanessa Lillie Also Stephen Pressfield authored one of my favorite books, "Gates of Fire".