Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780877953340 (0877953341)
Publish date: September 1st 1981
Publisher: Arbor House
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
An editor once told me that if you're going to take advice on writing, take it either from name-bestselling writers or gatekeepers such as acquiring editors or agents--not necessarily anyone who writes for Writer's Digest or has taught a writing class. Well, Lawrence Block is at least a published wr...
Telling Lies for Fun & Profit is a collection of some of Lawrence Block's columns from Writer's Digest.Most of the time I see books on writing, they're by people I've never heard of and I pass them by. Stephen King's On Writing has been my favorite book on writing for years... but now he has compet...
A collection of columns written for Writers Digest, this is one of the best books I have read - covering both some interesting points of the business of writing (why should I or not use a penname?) and the finer points of the writing itself ("Why shouldn't I write this way?" he ejaculated.)Chuckle-o...