Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers: Turbo-Charge Your Writing

Do you want to write better books with the help of powerful creative writing and storytelling techniques from stage and screen? Here's how! Dramatic techniques are practical writing strategies used by writers who entertain big audiences. Screenwriters, TV writers, playwrights, performers. Dramatic writing techniques cut to the chase. They're bold, high-impact, and they work. And yet most fiction authors don't know them! You can transform your writing by learning How to use dramatic action to drive a scene How to create tension using conflict and secrets How to build dynamic characters using status shifts How to externalise character emotions How to forge powerful relationships using objects How to corral space and time for maximum impact How to create powerful metaphors How to harness the business of show (not tell)! Dramatic techniques give you story and scene structures to support your words. Dynamic characters with drive and substance. Powerful forces that help audiences feel tension, excitement, emotion. They can help you build a more compelling story and write engaging scenes full of tension and drive. This is a practical book. Stage and screenwriting is like sculpting. It gives you bigger-picture writing tools that help you get below the surface of words. Once the penny drops about dramatic techniques, you'll see writing with different eyes. You'll be a more confident editor, able to design more powerful scenes and more memorable moments. This writing reference book bring together all the writing skills I've learned in 20 years of writing fiction, plays and non-fiction, and 12 years as a creative writing tutor with the Open University. It's for ambitious fiction writers, playwrights, poets who want to develop their writing craft to an advanced level, and learn from professional and industry concepts. It's for writing teachers who want an overview of dramatic action, Stanislavski, Goffman and other important influencers. It's for storytellers, copywriters, marketers, business writers looking for bold, powerful storytelling tools. Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers may be just the jolt your writing needs!