Research Catalog

Title

Wonderbook : the illustrated guide to creating imaginative fiction / Jeff VanderMeer ; art by Jeremy Zerfoss (and many others).

Author

VanderMeer, Jeff

Publication

New York : Abrams Image, [2013]

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Details

Description

xix, 323 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm

Summary

"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 energizes 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"--

Alternative Title

Wonder book

Subjects

• English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching
• Creative writing (Higher education)
• LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays
• LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing
• REFERENCE > Writing Skills
• Imagery (Psychology)
• Literature > Aesthetics
• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Imagination
• Originality in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Inspiration and the creative life -- The ecosystem of story -- Beginning and endings -- Narrative design -- Characterization -- Worldbuilding -- Revision.

ISBN

• 9781419704420 (pbk.)
• 1419704427 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2012042807

OCLC

• 808413799
• SCSB-12491088

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library