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- Title: What's Your Story?
- Author : Marion Dane Bauer
- Release Date : January 20, 1992
- Genre: General Nonfiction,Books,Young Adult,Reference,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1233 KB
Description
The award-winning author āprovides mentoring and practical and technical advice in this handy how-to book . . . as useful to teachers as to young writersā (School Library Journal, starred review).
Storytelling is a universal experience. From an early age, we begin to shape our own world by crafting tales. But learning to tellāand writeāa good story isnāt easy. It takes dedication and practice, just like for a musician or an athlete, and it can be just as rewarding to accomplish as winning a game or mastering an instrument. Itās the kind of work that feeds our souls and makes us glad to be alive.
In Whatās Your Story?, Newbery Medal-winning author Marion Dane Bauer discusses how to write fiction from beginning to end, including creating a story plan, choosing the best idea, bringing characters to life, deciding on a point of view, creating realistic dialogue, keeping readers hooked, and revising and polishing the finished product.
āHer last comment is telling: āKnowing your craft can help you tell a story. But only by taking risks can you make art.ā After many pages of provocative information and straightforward counsel, that sentence may be the one to launch youngsters to the challenge. The book speaks directly to young writers, but many adults (teachers, librarians, reviewers, editors, would-be writers) will also find this sensible dissection of the storytelling process invaluable.āāKirkus Reviews (starred review)
āA pragmatic, organized approach to story writing . . . the exercises and thought processes introduced as groundwork come across as stimulating rather than tedious and may serve to hone analytical skills as well as inspire even the most reluctant writers to try their hand.āāPublishers Weekly