Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers

Are you ready to raise your writing game? Discover dramatic writing techniques and take your fiction, drama and poetry to a new level! Dramatic techniques are all about bold, clear, high-impact writing. Once you discover these storytelling craft techniques, you'll never look back. Dramatic techniques work. They're powerful. They cut through. Dramatic techniques are core narrative skills that will 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. 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 use subtext to create tension how to use status shifts to create more dynamic characters how to use objects in character relationships how to use spaces for impact and tension 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. About the Author Jules Horne is an award-winning fiction writer and playwright from Scotland. For 13 years, she taught creative writing for the Open University, where she cowrote the MA script strand. She's an experienced teacher and editor specialising in multimedia and multimodal writing craft. She writes the books she wishes she'd had when starting out: 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! Reviews ...A must for any creative writer, full of helpful tips and techniques... ...has really helped me to structure conflict scenes much more effectively in my novel... "Jules Horne's book is accessible, clearly written, and really, really helpful for fiction writers of all levels of experience. I've read a lot of books for writers in the past few years. This is one of the best." Josie Johnston