Dwight Vreeland Swain's first published story was "Henry Horn's Super Solvent", which appeared in Fantastic Adventures in 1941.
Dwight Vreeland Swain's first published story was "Henry Horn's Super Solvent", which appeared in Fantastic Adventures in 1941. He contributed stories in the science fiction, mystery, Western, and action adventure genres to a variety of pulp magazines.
Dwight V. Swain spent a lifetime writing newspaper and magazine articles, pulp fiction, and screenplays
Dwight V. Swain spent a lifetime writing newspaper and magazine articles, pulp fiction, and screenplays. For more than twenty years he taught in the Professional Writing Program at the University of Oklahoma. His popular books, Techniques of the Selling Writer and Creating Characters: How to Build Story People are published by the University of Oklahoma Press.
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Techniques of the Selling Writerprovides solid instruction for people who want to write and sell fiction, not just to talk and study about it. It gives the background, insights, and specific procedures needed by all beginning writers. Here one can learn how to group words into copy that moves, movement into scenes, and scenes into stories; how to develop characters, how to revise and polish, and finally, how to sell the product. No one can teach talent, but the practical skills of the professional writer's craft can certainly be taught
Techniques of the Selling Writer By Dwight V. Swain Topic Category, Writing, Creativity Terms: Motivation Reaction Unit Reading Sections Foreword 1. .They are, in brief, tricks and techniques of the selling writer. They're all this book has to offer
Techniques of the Selling Writer By Dwight V. Fiction and You 2. The Words You Write 3. Plain Facts About Feelings 4. Conflict And How To Build It 5. Fiction Strategy 6. Beginning, Middle, End 7. The People In Your Story 8. Preparation, Planning, Production 9. Selling Your Stories 1. They're all this book has to offer. 1. Fiction and You A story is experience translated into literary process.
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Dwight Swain was one of the great fiction writing teachers and Techniques of the Selling Writer is his best work. A friend of mine tipped me off to this book back in about 1990. I read the book and applied it to my writing. Then I read it again and applied it to my writing. If you have the talent, this book can make you a novelist. There is a lot of meat in here. Over the course of a year or so, I learned how to write. If there is any reason I’m published today, it’s because of what I learned in this book. The book was written in the 1960s by a renowned teacher of creative writing, Dwight Swain.
confession writer now moving into the hardback novel field, and Jeanne Williams, author of prize-winning books for young people, are among those with whom Ive had the pleasure of working personally, at one time or another. What do I find when I look back along the road that these writers and hundreds of others like them have followed, as they went through courses with me and various of my colleagues: Foster-Harris, Helen Reagan Smith (in the Universitys Extension Division), and the late Walter S. Campbell?
The selling parts of the book are things I've gotten elsewhere, but learning what makes good sentences, good scenes, balanced . When it comes to the art of writing, put Dwight Swain in the coveted class of Strunk and White
The selling parts of the book are things I've gotten elsewhere, but learning what makes good sentences, good scenes, balanced chapters-it's worth a fortune. This book and Gary Provost's MAKING YOUR WORDS WORK are the two best tools for writers I've found. And I'm saying this as my 1th book is about to come out, and my 500th shorter piece. When it comes to the art of writing, put Dwight Swain in the coveted class of Strunk and White. What that respected duo does for writing style, Swain does for writing technique. With nary a wasted word, he rips away all the mystery, all the obfuscation from everything from character to conflict to complication, plus a lot more.
University of oklahoma press norman. Norman, Oklahoma 73069. Assigned 1973 to the University of Oklahoma Press,Norman, Publishing Division of the University. Manufactured in the . ISBN 978-0-8061-1191-9 (paperback : alk. paper). ISBN 978-0-8061-8657-3 (ebook : mobipocket).
Techniques of the Selling Writer provides solid instruction for people who want to write and sell fiction, not just to talk and study about it. It gives the background, insights, and specific procedures needed by all beginning writers. Here one can learn how to group words into copy that moves, movement into scenes, and scenes into stories; how to develop characters, how to revise and polish, and finally, how to sell the product.
No one can teach talent, but the practical skills of the professional writer's craft can certainly be taught. The correct and imaginative use of these kills can shorten any beginner's apprenticeship by years.
This is the book for writers who want to turn rejection slips into cashable checks.