Immediate Fiction
A Complete Writing Course
By Jerry Cleaver
(St. Martin's Press, Hardcover, 9780312287160, 304pp.)
Publication Date: February 2002
Categories: Composition & Creative Writing - Fiction
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Covering the entire process, from story building to manuscript preparation and marketing, Jerry Cleaver shows the novice and experienced writer how to start writing and how to get immediate results.
Readers will find everything they need to know about managing time, finding an idea, getting that first word down on the page, staying unblocked, shaping ideas into compelling stories, and submitting their work to agents and publishers.
"Immediate Fiction goes beyond the old "Write what you know" to "Write what you can imagine." Filled with insightful tips on how to manage doubts, fears, blocks, and panic, "Immediate Fiction will help writers develop their skills in as little as ten minutes a day, if necessary.
Believing that all writing is rewriting, Cleaver says, "You can't control what you put on the page. You can only control what you leave on the page." With this book Cleaver shows how you can get that control and produce results.
Jerry Cleaver is a writer, teacher, and writing coach who created The Writer's Loft, Chicago's most successful independent writers' workshop for the last twenty years. He has given special story seminars for Writers' Digest and created the "Write Your Novel Now" Internet course. Published in various magazines and a ghostwriter for several books, Cleaver lives in Chicago, Illinois with his wife.
For additional information on Jerry Cleaver and Loft workshops, visit www.immediatefiction.com.
Praise for Immediate Fiction and Jerry Cleaver
"Plainly gifted."
--C. Michael Curtis, senior editor, The Atlantic Monthly
"The best there is."
--Michael Harvey, screenwriter/filmmaker, Emmy Award winner, and 1999 Academy Award nominee for Eyewitness
"A true story master."
--Bernard Sabbath, Broadway playwright, author of The Boys in Autumn
"I recommend it to everyone who writes."
--Linda Lael Miller, author of eight New York Times bestsellers
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