
Fiction Editing Tools
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy for $14.99
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Virtual Voice
-
By:
-
S. A. Soule

This title uses virtual voice narration
About this listen
This comprehensive edition contains over 600 pages of guidance to inspire your creative muse with descriptive ways to craft a riveting novel that instantly grabs a reader’s attention.
Writers will get the essential skills needed to significantly enhance their characterization, settings, scenes, and intensify emotions. And this unique guidebook includes hundreds of amazing examples on how to use “show don’t tell” to submerge readers so deeply into the narrative that they will experience the story along with the characters.
No matter what genre you write, this extensive manual and thesaurus should be kept as a vital reference in every writer’s toolbox.
Learn to craft:
*Revise Shallow Writing
*Deepen Characterization
*Resolve Showing vs. Telling Issues
*Craft Natural Character Expressions
*Write realistic settings through sensory details
*Create three-dimensional characters
*3 Extensive Creation Character Templates
*Tools to Create a Page-Turning First Chapter
*Writing Scene Hooks
*Advice from Bestselling Authors on Plotting
Bestselling author and Creativity Coach, S. A. Soule shares her expertise with writers by providing a simple approach to getting readers so emotionally invested in your stories that readers will be flipping the pages to find out what happens next.
Are you ready to take your writing skills to the next level?
Then Start reading Today!People who viewed this also viewed...
-
The Writer's Guide to Emotions and Expressions
- By: S. A. Soule
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
UPDATED 2022 EDITION! These two bestselling writing and editing handbooks, “The Writer’s Guide to Character Emotion” and “The Writer’s Guide to Character Expression” have been updated and combined to create one remarkable single volume! This comprehensive edition contains descriptive writing tools to help writers craft a riveting novel that instantly grabs a reader’s attention. Writers will gain the essential skills needed to craft realistic emotions, visceral responses, and body language to deepen characterization that you can easily and quickly apply to your own writing. ...
-
-
Awesome
- By Danny Howell on 04-26-24
By: S. A. Soule
-
The Emotional Craft of Fiction
- How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface
- By: Donald Maass
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
While writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel. The reader's experience must be an emotional journey of its own, one as involving as your characters' struggles, discoveries, and triumphs are for you. That's where The Emotional Craft of Fiction comes in. Veteran literary agent and expert fiction instructor Donald Maass shows you how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional experience in readers.
-
-
Read this if you're a writer
- By Reed Ramlow on 08-08-20
By: Donald Maass
-
Point of View
- Writers Guide Series
- By: Sandra Gerth
- Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Point of view is one of the most powerful tools in a writer's kit, but it's also one of the hardest to understand and master. In this book, Sandra Gerth draws on her experience as an editor and a best-selling author to teach you how to handle point of view in a way that will make your readers identify with your main character, draw them into the story, and keep them captivated until the very last page. The book provides concrete examples and exercises that will hone your writing skills, whether you're a novice writer working on her first story or an established author.
-
-
Great advices on POV use
- By Anonymous User on 11-30-24
By: Sandra Gerth
-
The Seven Basic Plots
- Why We Tell Stories
- By: Christopher Booker
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 38 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of "basic stories" in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it reveals that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling.
-
-
Save your time and money, the book is worthless
- By Kindle Customer on 08-20-20
-
Show, Don't Tell
- Writers Guide Series
- By: Sandra Gerth
- Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Show, don't tell is probably the single most important piece of advice given to writers. But many writers struggle to understand this powerful principle or have difficulty applying it to their own work. Even experienced authors sometimes don't grasp the finer nuances of showing and telling. In this book, Sandra Gerth draws on her experience as an editor and a best-selling author to show you how to show and tell you when to tell.
-
-
A Great Teaching Tool
- By Ann McCambridge on 10-06-22
By: Sandra Gerth
-
What Editors Do
- The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing
- By: Peter Ginna
- Narrated by: Charles Constant, Susan Hanfield
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Editing is an invisible art where the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. In What Editors Do, Peter Ginna gathers essays from 27 leading figures in book publishing about their work. Representing both large houses and small, and encompassing trade, textbook, academic, and children's publishing, the contributors make the case for why editing remains a vital function to writers - and readers - everywhere.
-
-
Deep Dive into The World of Editing
- By Cheryl C. Malandrinos on 06-26-23
By: Peter Ginna
-
The Writer's Guide to Emotions and Expressions
- By: S. A. Soule
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
UPDATED 2022 EDITION! These two bestselling writing and editing handbooks, “The Writer’s Guide to Character Emotion” and “The Writer’s Guide to Character Expression” have been updated and combined to create one remarkable single volume! This comprehensive edition contains descriptive writing tools to help writers craft a riveting novel that instantly grabs a reader’s attention. Writers will gain the essential skills needed to craft realistic emotions, visceral responses, and body language to deepen characterization that you can easily and quickly apply to your own writing. ...
-
-
Awesome
- By Danny Howell on 04-26-24
By: S. A. Soule
-
The Emotional Craft of Fiction
- How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface
- By: Donald Maass
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
While writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel. The reader's experience must be an emotional journey of its own, one as involving as your characters' struggles, discoveries, and triumphs are for you. That's where The Emotional Craft of Fiction comes in. Veteran literary agent and expert fiction instructor Donald Maass shows you how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional experience in readers.
-
-
Read this if you're a writer
- By Reed Ramlow on 08-08-20
By: Donald Maass
-
Point of View
- Writers Guide Series
- By: Sandra Gerth
- Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Point of view is one of the most powerful tools in a writer's kit, but it's also one of the hardest to understand and master. In this book, Sandra Gerth draws on her experience as an editor and a best-selling author to teach you how to handle point of view in a way that will make your readers identify with your main character, draw them into the story, and keep them captivated until the very last page. The book provides concrete examples and exercises that will hone your writing skills, whether you're a novice writer working on her first story or an established author.
-
-
Great advices on POV use
- By Anonymous User on 11-30-24
By: Sandra Gerth
-
The Seven Basic Plots
- Why We Tell Stories
- By: Christopher Booker
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 38 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of "basic stories" in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it reveals that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling.
-
-
Save your time and money, the book is worthless
- By Kindle Customer on 08-20-20
-
Show, Don't Tell
- Writers Guide Series
- By: Sandra Gerth
- Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Show, don't tell is probably the single most important piece of advice given to writers. But many writers struggle to understand this powerful principle or have difficulty applying it to their own work. Even experienced authors sometimes don't grasp the finer nuances of showing and telling. In this book, Sandra Gerth draws on her experience as an editor and a best-selling author to show you how to show and tell you when to tell.
-
-
A Great Teaching Tool
- By Ann McCambridge on 10-06-22
By: Sandra Gerth
-
What Editors Do
- The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing
- By: Peter Ginna
- Narrated by: Charles Constant, Susan Hanfield
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Editing is an invisible art where the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. In What Editors Do, Peter Ginna gathers essays from 27 leading figures in book publishing about their work. Representing both large houses and small, and encompassing trade, textbook, academic, and children's publishing, the contributors make the case for why editing remains a vital function to writers - and readers - everywhere.
-
-
Deep Dive into The World of Editing
- By Cheryl C. Malandrinos on 06-26-23
By: Peter Ginna
Great writing tool
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.