Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction

This revised, expanded edition of the definitive guide to writing imaginative fiction takes a completely novel approach and uses original drawings, maps, renderings, and visual 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 all aspiring and intermediate-level writers, Wonderbook also has helpful sidebars and essays from some of the biggest and best names in writing today, including Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, Catherynne M. Valente, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, and Karen Joy Fowler, to name a few.