![]() Not too long a time later, the awesome Charles Tan dropped a copy in my stunned but willing arms (I am indebted to you. I was beginning to give up on books on writing when I encountered a mention of Jeff VanderMeer’s Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction on Chuck Wendig’s blog. Those scarce mentions were either wholly unsatisfying single paragraphs (as if the writing of those two genres could ever be distilled in one paragraph) or else much-too specific books (reading about that many generation starships and dragons can actually put you off from writing them). ![]() Some are essay collections, some are written in chapters.Īnd very few of them ever mentioned writing science fiction or fantasy, if at all. I’ve read all kinds: from dubious, purely instructional manuals to the philosophical but rather useless at dissecting technique. ![]() When I began college, I kept checking out creative writing reference books from the library, or else buying them from bookstores -it’s always a pain to discover later on that the book itself is not actually worth what you’ve paid. ![]()
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