The Mind of Your Story: Discover What Drives Your Fiction - Tapa dura

Learn how to allow fiction a mind of its own while still holding tightly to the reins, by exploring both the foundations and the nuances of story creation - moving far beyond the basics into the realm of fiction that makes that mysterious connection with readers. Writers are told by editors and agents that they have to capture the reader to make a sale. But how are they supposed to do this? The best fiction - the fiction that grabs the reader and doesn't let go - has a mind of its own, a mind that seduces the reader into surrendering his/her own sensibilities to the fiction's inventions.Award-winning novelist Lisa Lenard-Cook embraces this ideology and demonstrates how to: nourish obsessions in order to get inside the story world, borrow from the techniques of literary masters to improve work and revise with confidence in order to protect the integrity of the work.

Lisa Lenard-Cook holds a BA with departmental honours from SUNY Buffalo and an MFA in fiction writing from Vermont College. Dissonance, her first novel, won the Jim Sagel Prize for the Novel while in manuscript.