The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Creative Writing

This "How To" manual for creative writer wannabee's, is a vividly written and superbly produced introduction to the basics of developing a story for publication. It is extraordinarilly comprehensive in scope and seems to cover everything in any way relevant to the storyteller's craft. Each chapter is dedicated to a particular theme or topic and illustrated with stories by established and often multiply published authors. It is easy to read and reflects the author's many years experience as an esteemed and prize winning teacher of creative writing at a prestigious college. If there were only one book you needed to become a successful writer, this would be it.

It's not an academic book. It feels written by a writer who has been through the euphoria and depression of writing fiction (and non-fiction) who is also an effective teacher.

Love this book. Many prompts for writing and easy to follow as I am dyslexic.

Alice in a great writer and teacher!

Awesome. Just Awesome.

Received in excellent condition

The book was in wonderful condition. It was as insightful and important as I hoped it would be