Writing From Life. How To Turn Your Personal Experience Into Profitable Prose

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: How To Books Ltd
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: First Edition

Description: 186 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: This book will show how your own personal experiences can provide you with an endless supply of ideas for your writing - whether fiction or non-fiction. You will learn how to write about what you know - and you certainly know a lot. The good news is that the older you are, and the older you get, the more experiences you have had - so youll always have something to write about. The author, Lynn Hackles, will show you how to make your own Raking up your past file - using memories, lists, diaries, newspapers, smells, family trees, etc. And how to turn your own anecdotes recounted to friends and family into useful prose; and how to fashion the passed-down history of your ancestors into a family saga.With this book youll also learn how sell a snippet of conversation; make money by sharing secrets; take your boss and your best friend and come up with a new character; sell one event in your life to several different markets; impart knowledge you didnt think you had to people who didnt know they needed it; and, use the emotions, traumas, joys and experiences of your own life to make your writing stronger and more saleable. With this book youll never run out of ideas; writers block will be a thing of the past. AUTHOR The first words Lynne Hackles ever sold netted GBP 2. Since then her motto never let truth get in the way of entertainment has helped turn hundreds of personal experiences into stories which have sold in the UK and abroad. She leads writing workshops and runs tutorials for a leading correspondence school.

ISBN: 9781845282417