Rebel Yell: A Short Guide to Fiction Writing

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Summary: Get Off Yer Butts And On Yer Word Processors
Review: An energetic, inspiring, amazing, thoroughly comprehensive introduction to modern fiction and publishing. Its cover introduces it as a mild-mannered little Writer's-Digest type how-to book. Don't be fooled for a minute.

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Summary: Everything a writer needs, all in one place.
Review: From the basic elements of fiction writing to the fine points of editorial etiquette, from mining ideas to negotiating specific contract terms, REBEL YELL has it all. Not just for literary insurgents, Lance Olsen's how-to is an entertaining, up-to-date guide for all writers. Aspiring novelists and published authors alike will find themselves returning again and again to this highly readable reference tool for advice, guidelines, and old-fashioned encouragement. If you're looking for platitudes, vague generalities, or pompous pronouncements from on high, find another book -- there are plenty of them out there. This one teaches the craft and the trade of writing.

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Summary: A Brilliant Guide To Writing Fiction For The Next Millennium
Review: Scholarly critic and science fiction author/guru Lance Olsen has written an explosively relevant guide to creative fiction writing. As always he is three steps ahead of his contemporaries, not only in his futuristic theory of writing, but also in his publishing savvy. Olsen is no stranger to breaking fictional ground in a big, big way--check out his post-post modern novels BURNT, TIME FAMINE, and LIVE FROM EARTH. Here in REBEL YELL he sounds the clarion for a higher level of writing than we are used to--one that goes beyond the realm of realism to a new beginning, a dimension beyond conventional expectations and common fare.

REBEL YELL boasts practical writing features-- interviews with professional authors who put their work on the line daily, and Olsen's personal editorial advice that deftly guides readers through the elements of fiction writing. The book is a MUST for creative writing classes at the college level, and a treasure trove for the individual aspriring writer. A sharp, focused read, it launches a brave new era of writing, and of understanding literature.