Story Starters
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If you have the passion and energy to write fiction, but have trouble finding an idea and getting started, this is the perfect book for you. Lou Willett Stanek has helped scores of new authors in her acclaimed writing workshops—and now she shows you how to look and listen, how to find stories and begin shaping them like a writer.
Here's how to find inspiration from neighbors and strangers, reshape classic tales, cull current events and use other tricks of the writing trade so effectively you'll soon find yourself brimming with ideas, your imagination revved to its full potential. Begin with a snippet of overheard conversation, an unexpected event, a simple character trait, a place, a problem—Ms. Stanek teaches you to get past "what really happened" and reinvent reality in ways that will astound and delight you, and hold a reader's attention.
Here too are hundreds of "what-ifs," simple situations you can guide to endlessly different conclusions—and use to learn new ways to fashion plot, describe character, develop conflict, paint with language, create a setting, employ flashbacks, build suspense, and much, much more. For every writer who could use a jump-start, from novice to pro, here is a book that will help you keep the faith and. . .
Thousands of stories are just waiting to be told—by you. Get started!
Lou W. Stanek, PhD
Lou Willett Stanek, a novelist, critic, and teacher, practices what she preaches. She bases her workshops on the theory described in this book. Dr. Stanek earned a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, an M.A. at Northwestern, and a B.A. from Eastern Illinois University. She also served as a trustee at Millikin University. A Midwesterner, Dr. Stanek now lives in New York and teaches writing at The New School of Social Research.
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Reviews for Story Starters
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was okay, but nothing special. The whole story reminded me a lot of the movie Grease. Similar to my reaction to Grease, it does bother me a bit that in the end you find the girl covered in piercings and tattoos like the boy. Not that I'm against stuff like that, but I think it would make for a more interesting book if she kept her original classy look and stayed with the tattooed and pierced boy. THAT is what not caring what others think is about. The book was full of grammar mistakes and misspellings. It also screamed middle-aged woman author... the dialogue was often extremely unbelievable. Not worth the read.