商品簡介
Nolan has written 90-plus fiction and nonfiction works including novels, motion pictures, and television series, in a variety of genres, among them science fiction, mystery, westerns, and dark fantasy. Based on his 50-plus years as a professional author, he offers beginning writers a guide to creating professional fiction. Coverage includes getting started, sources of ideas, how to reach the story's climax, using dialogue, characterization-within-action, revising, using humor, achieving a personal writing style, developing conflict, hooking the reader, short stories versus novels, writing screenplays, handling rejection, and dealing with publishers and agents. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
William F. Nolan has been widely published in a dozen fields including science fiction, mystery, auto racing, westerns, dark fantasy, biography, and mainstream fiction. Internationally known for his genre classic Logan's Run, Nolan has achieved some 1,500 sales since his first short story was printed in 1954. He has 80 books to his credit including 22 story collections and a dozen novels. He lives in Bend. OR where he is working on new novels and stories.
