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| Posted By : CharlesR - 8/1/2005 4:52 AM | 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.
Charles R |
| Posted By : PaulMc - 8/1/2005 8:57 AM | quote:
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
http://writer.paulmcnamee.net
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| Posted By : jonesha - 8/1/2005 9:00 AM | 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.
best,
Howard
Managing Editor
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