{"product_id":"9780897936293","title":"Writing from Deeper Within: Advanced Steps in Writing Fiction and Life Stories","description":"Works of art cause us to contemplate our human condition with unending fascination. They take us into another dimension, a dimension in which our understanding of the world we live in becomes richer, and our appreciation, even awe, of the power of a human hand to craft such a work, grows. In this way, the works of Leonardo, Ibsen, and Mozart enrich our understanding of the world in which we function.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe techniques required to create works of art are neither difficult to grasp, nor difficult to use. They simply take time, thoughtfulness and a willingness to experiment (rewrite) to see which are most useful. Bernard Selling guides people through the writing process, explaining what makes writing great one step at a time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelling has taught writing courses for over thirty years, and the 25th Anniversary Edition of his seminal guide to life story writing, \u003ci\u003eWriting from Within\u003c\/i\u003e, will be published by Hunter House in April, 2012. \u003ci\u003eWriting from Deeper Within\u003c\/i\u003e, a special eBook-only sequel, contains Selling’s refined and expanded curriculum. The sequel includes a summary of Selling’s Writing from Within method, which teaches people to learn how to write by using the subject they know best—themselves. Then, with techniques that will help people create more complete, powerful and universal stories, Selling shows how people can expand their work into full-length plays, memoirs, screenplays, or novels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssentially, Selling teaches that all great stories—no matter the genre or form—have well-developed, fascinating main characters and intriguing plots. All characters need goals that they pursue--the greater the obstacles in the way of that goal, the more interesting the stories become. The difference between shorter works and longer works is that shorter works usually only have one obstacle for each goal, and longer works have smaller goals and obstacles within the main plot. The goals and obstacles push the story forward, while minor characters and well-crafted backstories contribute to the audience’s understanding of what has happened before the curtain comes up and is essential to most narratives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo help writers, Selling provides draft samples each step of the way to show how his advice improves every piece of writing. He describes:\u003cbr\u003eStory pacing techniques\u003cbr\u003eStrategies for subtly adding exposition and denouement\u003cbr\u003eRevealing and unraveling character\u003cbr\u003eWriting stories within stories\u003cbr\u003eDeveloping unique voices within the same story\u003cbr\u003eResearching and writing family histories\u003cbr\u003eAdvanced steps like creating visual motifs, employing sub-text, and separating the writer from the central character\u003cbr\u003eHe also includes a full chapter of his students’ finished work to show the potential of his method.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll of the techniques that Selling presents are just as relevant to the non-fiction writer as to the fiction writer, and all writers, new and old, will write with more skill, understand themselves and their characters better, and be able to turn their writing into art.","brand":"Turner Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113543811312,"sku":"9780897936293","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780897936293_p0.jpg?v=1763849178","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780897936293","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}