Wonderbook:The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction - Softcover

Vandermeer, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1419704427 ISBN 13: 9781419704420

Publisher: Abrams Image, 2013

Synopsis

Wonderbook will be the definitive guide to writing fantasy. This innovative book will take a completely novel approach on a writing guide, fully exploiting the visual nature of fantasy through original drawings, maps, renderings, visualisations and exercises that will result in a spectacularly beautiful package that is more than just a guide, but also an inspiring object. Through an accessible, example rich approach that emphasises the importance of playfulness and pragmatism, Wonderbook will energise and motivate while also providing practical, nuts and bolts information needed to improve as a writer. Throughout the book, author Jeff VanderMeer will apply examples from his own fiction in both draft and revised versions, as well as reference his teaching experience. Aimed at aspiring and intermediate-level authors, this book is geared toward both teens and adults and stands out in the genre through its bold, full-colour, inventive approach to stimulating creative writing.

About this title

About the Author

Jeff VanderMeer is the author of more than twenty books including novels and fiction anthologies and two time winner of the World Fantasy Award. In 2010, he published The Steampunk Bible with Abrams. His books have made the year's best lists of Publisher's Weekly, LA Weekly, Washington Post, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many more. He is the co-founder and assistant director of Shared Worlds, a unique F/SF writing camp for teenagers, and has taught at the world's premiere F/SF workshop for adults, Clarion (University of California, San Diego). He is also a regular contributor to the Amazon book blog.

From the Back Cover

This all-new definitive guide to writing imaginative fiction takes a completely novel approach and fully exploits the visual nature of fantasy through original drawings, maps, renderings and exercises to create a spectacularly beautiful and inspiring object. Employing an accessible, example-rich approach, Wonderbook energises and motivates while also providing practical, nuts-and-bolts information needed to improve as a writer. Aimed at aspiring and intermediate-level writers, Wonderbook includes helpful sidebars and essays from some of the biggest names in fantasy today, such as George R. R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, Catherynne M. Valente and Karen Joy Fowler, to name a few.

Edition details

• Publisher: Abrams Image
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1419704427
• ISBN 13: 9781419704420
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 323