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cnorbury 's review for:
Techniques of the Selling Writer
by Dwight V. Swain
Swain's book deserves classic status since it was written in 1965 and has stood the test of time with regard to concrete methods and ideas for writing marketable stories.
It's not the easiest book to read, mostly due to formatting choices the author or publisher made that didn't work for me. But the techniques are exhaustive and cover all facets of writing good fiction. Any how-to book on writing published since then likely touches on or modifies the concepts Swain originally wrote about.
All writers, struggling to be published or already published and earning money, should have this book in their collections
It's not the easiest book to read, mostly due to formatting choices the author or publisher made that didn't work for me. But the techniques are exhaustive and cover all facets of writing good fiction. Any how-to book on writing published since then likely touches on or modifies the concepts Swain originally wrote about.
All writers, struggling to be published or already published and earning money, should have this book in their collections