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Stewart Ferris · Kindle · Essential Handbooks for Writers
Inspiration is elusive, and writers still have to locate it. Stewart Ferris, an author and publisher for more than thirty years, shows how to find the ideas, characters, and stories that bring a project to life, and how to keep writing when that inspiration is absent. He is also the author of How to be a Writer and How to Get Published.
Stewart Ferris · Kindle · Essential Handbooks for Writers
When free time is rare, the hours to write can look impossible. Ferris sets out practical ways to carve those moments out of a job, a family, or a hectic week, to get past inertia, and to use momentum so a full draft in a year is a plan rather than a wish.
Stewart Ferris · Kindle · Essential Handbooks for Writers
A fast-track guide to a full-length draft in a month, from a novelist, publisher, and creative-writing teacher. It covers the schedule, the characters, the tracking, and how to keep the quality while you keep the pace.
Stewart Ferris, with Edgar Allan Poe · Kindle · Upcott Studios
A short book for authors who want the emotional effect of a piece planned, not hoped for. Ferris reworks ideas from Poe’s 1846 essay The Philosophy of Composition for a modern project. The essay and The Raven are included in full.
Stewart Ferris · Kindle · Summersdale
Everyone has a book in them, they say — and then the manuscript has to survive a publisher’s desk. After years in the industry, Ferris sets out why books are accepted, what a submission needs, and the avoidable reasons manuscripts are rejected.
Stewart Ferris · Paperback · Summersdale
A writer is someone who writes. This guide is about producing the words, and about the conventions that get a manuscript out of the slush pile: voice, criticism, writer’s block, and the business of being read.
Robert McKee · Hardcover · Twelve
The follow-up to Story. McKee analyses how characters speak on the screen, on the stage, and on the page, taking scenes apart — from Macbeth to Breaking Bad — to show the strategies of dialogue.
Robert McKee · Hardcover
The book of McKee’s screenwriting workshop: substance, structure, style, and the principles of screenwriting. Useful beside a dialogue draft, because a line cannot rescue a scene that has no turn.
Lajos Egri · Paperback · Touchstone
Egri’s concise guide to dramatic writing, from premise to characters to plot. Playwrights and screenwriters still use it when a scene will not turn on what people say.
Stephen King · Paperback · Scribner
Part memoir, part master class. King tells how he became a writer and then opens the toolbox: vocabulary, grammar, and the elements of style. The dialogue advice is one chapter. It is the chapter this desk keeps sending people back to.