ARE YOU READY TO RAISE YOUR WRITING GAME? Discover ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING TECHNIQUES to take your fiction, drama and poetry to a new level!

Dramatic techniques are all about bold, clear, high-impact writing. Once you discover the craft concepts used by screen and stage writers to bring stories to life, you’ll never look back.

Dramatic techniques work. They’ve survived the bearpit of live audiences. They cut through the mud. They make it super-easy to edit, because they’re built on an underlying structure.

Authors who don’t have a firm grasp on these powerful strategies are missing out! Because dramatic techniques are core narrative skills, and they’ll supercharge your writing and editing.

This practical guide to dramatic concepts will give you confidence in structure, plotting and character, and may even blow your mind. At the very least, you’ll kick yourself for not discovering them sooner.

I wrote fiction for years. Then I started writing scripts professionally. I was gobsmacked by how little I knew. All the craft techniques I was missing. Why? Because dramatic, prose and poetry writers move in different worlds. So they don’t share professional secrets. Things like:

• dramatic action and how to use it to drive a scene
• how to write subtext to create tension
• how to use status shifts to create more dynamic characters
• how to use objects to focus character relationships
• how to use space for impact and tension
• how transformations can make your storytelling more dynamic
• the difference between private and public settings in story dynamics
• how the ribbon of time can help tight, powerful editing
• how to use rituals to shortcut exposition

This book is packed with advanced writing craft concepts from the world of film, stage, and professional storytelling. If you want to move your writing up a gear, this is for you.

If you've ever wrestled with showing and telling, dramatic techniques will turbo-charge your skills. If you've ever written flat scenes with no tension, Dramatic Techniques will tighten the screw. If you've published novels for years and still aren't seeing sales, it's time to step up a level with this advanced, powerful writing advice.

Jules Horne is an award-winning fiction writer and playwright from Scotland. She teaches creative writing students at a UK university where she co-wrote the MA script strand. She’s an experienced teacher and editor and works across the writing craft disciplines (multimodal and multimedia). She writes the books she wishes she’d had when she was starting out as a writer with ambitions: practical, professional how-tos that cut to the chase, and the pro secrets no one tells you, till you join the writing industries.

Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers is just the jolt your creative writing needs!

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