Writing Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & Horror for Dummies

Dakan, Rick, Van Cleave, Ryan G.

  • 出版商: For Dummies
  • 出版日期: 2022-03-09
  • 售價: $1,100
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,045
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 432
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 1119839092
  • ISBN-13: 9781119839095
  • 海外代購書籍(需單獨結帳)

商品描述

Enthrall audiences with wondrous stories

Aspiring writers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror look no further in your quest for a guide to help you transport your audience to faraway lands or alternate timelines. As you envision distant futures and write about new worlds, this handy guide is here to help you improve your technique. You'll find out how to see your work through the eyes of your audience (is that a magic power or a horror plotline?), so you can perfect your characters, build mystery, create conflict and resolution, write realistic space battles--and, of course, get published! Turn your wildest imaginings into captivating prose.

Inside...

  • Master the basics of plot, character, and setting
  • Build believable worlds
  • Put the science in sci-fi
  • Conjure a mighty magic
  • Write hair-raising horror
  • Edit and polish your work
  • Find a path to publication

作者簡介

Rick Dakan and Ryan G. Van Cleave, PhD are professors at the prestigious Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, where they teach such courses as Writing Science Fiction, Writing for Video Games, and Writing for Shared Worlds. Both of them have ended a D&D campaign with a single well-placed fireball.