How to Write Best-Selling Fiction

De: James Scott Bell, The Great Courses

Narrado por: James Scott Bell

Most people think the way to write a best seller is to have a lot of talent and even more luck. As you will learn, there is a recipe for success, and luck may be the least important ingredient in creating a best seller.

When it comes to solving the mystery of what makes a best-selling novel, no one has cracked the code better than James Scott Bell. A best-selling author himself, winner of the International Thriller Writers Award and the Christy Award for Suspense, plus the author of the number-one best seller for writers, Plot & Structure, Mr. Bell has been teaching the principles of best-selling fiction for over 20 years, principles that apply to any genre or style.

In the 24 lectures of How to Write Best-Selling Fiction, Mr. Bell provides a comprehensive, eye-opening, and illuminating survey of the entire writing process, as well as a full breakdown of how best-selling authors such as Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, Suzanne Collins, Janet Evanovich, and dozens of others have implemented best practices in their own writing.

From fun creative challenges to help you get started with unique plot and character ideas to how to format, package, and promote your finished material - with help dotting every "i" and crossing every "t" along the way - Mr. Bell offers an insightful, intimate, and extraordinarily revealing look at the elements that elevate a novel to become a best seller. Any aspiring author will gain a wealth of tools that will not only improve their ability to write, but will also increase their enjoyment of the craft.

The famous writer Somerset Maugham once said, “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” And maybe no one knows the “rules”, but there are writing techniques, practices, and fundamentals that writers have used for decades to become best-selling authors. And just like Picasso, once you master the basics of your art, then you can create your own rules. With How to Write Best-Selling Fiction, you get an intimate introduction to the fundamentals of how to write your best seller, from a best-selling author who has mastered the secrets to success.

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I am motivated to get going and give it a try. Lots of thoughtful tips

For those that want to understand the mechanics

This book was incredible. I'm a very logical thinker and cannot get myself passed "how to's" formulated using abstract metaphors. This book EXPLAINS how to write bestselling fiction in a way that made it clear and impactful for me. I highly recommend this how-to along with the other Great Course's how-to. Learn how to write, now!

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Great information from start to finish. I want to listen to this twice a year just to reinforce the fundamentals.

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this course is a must take for anyone who is interested in writing. well read and great examples

good study and motivator...

this lecture has a lot of good information and it is explained in a way that a novice writer can relate to and even intermediate and experience writers can get focus from it. I will listen again and relisten every so often...