The Jane Austen Writers' Club: Inspiration and Advice from the World's Best-Loved Novelist Contributor(s): Smith, Rebecca (Author) |
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ISBN: 1632865882 ISBN-13: 9781632865885 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA OUR PRICE: $24.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - Authorship - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Style Manuals |
Dewey: 808.02 |
LCCN: 2016036055 |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.6" W x 8.3" (1.00 lbs) 352 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A spirited and useful guide for writers with tips and tricks from Jane Austen, whose novels stand the test of time, by her great great great great grand niece. Pretty much anything anyone needs to know about writing can be learned from Jane Austen. While creative writing manuals tend to use examples from twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers, The Jane Austen Writers' Club is the first to look at the methods and devices used by the world's most beloved novelist. Austen was a creator of immortal characters and a pioneer in her use of language and point of view; her advice continues to be relevant two centuries after her death. Here Rebecca Smith examines the major aspects of writing fiction--plotting, characterization, openings and endings, dialogue, settings, and writing methods--sharing the advice Austen gave in letters to her aspiring novelist nieces and nephew, and providing many and varied exercises for writers to try, using examples from Austen's work. The Jane Austen Writers' Club is a fresh primer on writing that features utterly timeless advice. |