Becoming the Fiction Storyteller of Your Dreams

Book excerpt: Learn to write and tell stories that keep your readers begging for more. This new version combines the classic works of Dorothea Brande (Becoming A Writer) with Marie Shedlock (The Art of the Story-Teller). Together, they address the underlying issues all fiction writers have - how to routinely write stories which are riveting to the reader and keep them coming back for the next installment. A reissue of a classic work originally published in 1934 on writing and the creative process, Becoming a Writer recaptures the excitement of Dorothea Brande's creative-writing classroom of the 1920s. Marie Shedlock examines the real secrets behind telling a story that engages the audience - not only capturing and communicating the drama, but also how to select and craft the story which keeps them riveted to the very end. Dr. Robert C. Worstell paired these classics to give the fiction writer the needed tools in one single volume for ready reference and use: tabbed, dog-eared, and highlighted.