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CharlesR
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I know I've been the Michael Moorcock booster lately, but I would like to recommend his non fiction book Death is No Obstacle to anyone interested in writing Sword & Sorcery fiction. The book is basically a series of interviews with Moorcock discussing his work, and the first chapter, Six Days to Save the World, is one of the best primers on the art of writing a sword & sorcery novel I've ever seen. Moorcock uses examples of his work and explains in detail how he went about plotting and writing his books and also adds a lot of nifty tips. The other chapters cover different types of fiction, and I found useful information in all of them. Highly recommended. The book is out of print and a little pricy at Amazon and places like Abe Books but I found my copy cheap on Ebay.

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Originally posted by CharlesR

I know I've been the Michael Moorcock booster lately, but I would like to recommend his non fiction book Death is No Obstacle to anyone interested in writing Sword & Sorcery fiction.


Thanks. I'll keep an eye out for it.

-- Paul McNamee
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Sounds really interesting. Maybe I'll try and latch on to read a copy through interlibrary loan. I have SO many books around here already that I haven't read.

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Howard

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