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The science fiction article writer Damon Knight composed once that freelance writers were fundamentally toads in childhood. These were the introverts, the loners, the less-than-handsome or beautiful children in institution. A lot of those toads gravitated to literature to learn about better times and better worlds, he observed. The article writer Frederick Pohl objected. He claimed he didn't have an disappointed childhood, nor was he ugly. Until he knocked a tooth out when he was about 10, Pohl said, he was a fairly cute little child. Whether cute or unpleasant, this audiobook is designed for the women and men who have gravitated to literature and dream of being writers. In all honesty no booklet can cause you to a best-selling publisher. That has to come through your own creativity. What catalogs can do is offer you tips about plotting, dialogue, prose, speed, characterization and other areas of the writing craft. While you can never teach creativity, a book can give you reasonable advice on action verbs, clean dialogue, and good characterization. Nearly every best-selling article writer can point to advice from another article writer or a booklet that helped him develop his craft. While there are a few things that cannot be learned - such as how to duplicate George V. Higgins' amazing dialogue - zero other areas of the writing craft can be researched and incorporated into the own work while still allowing flexibility for your own special style. Even with reasonable advice plus some writing talent, a great deal of understanding of writing will be learned at the own computer keyboard, pecking out views of mystery or science fiction or childhood longing. This book is concerned with the essential nuts and bolts of the writing craft. The hammer and fingernails or toenails of literature. Freelance writers must use those hammers and fingernails or toenails to fashion their own creative dreams. Perhaps Mr. Knight's view of writing is true. Perhaps most freelance writers were toads in childhood. But some of these toads - and some cute little kids - have created beautiful worlds and amazing stories.
