Reddit reviews Immediate Fiction

Immediate Fiction, Jerry Cleaver.

http://www.amazon.com/Immediate-Fiction-Complete-Writing-Course/dp/0312302762

Hmmm... depends on exactly what you are looking for... (you may also want to pose this question in /r/writing).

Start with these if you're looking for fiction writing help: The 10% Solution by Ken Rand

The Elements of Fiction series (I personally liked Nancy Kress's: Beginnings, middles & ends.

Immediate Fiction I haven't read it yet, but it looks pretty good.

There are a hundreds of other books out there, and a couple that focus more specifically on style, but Elements covers the majority of the subject fairly well. This one might be a little closer to what you're wanting.

Hope this helped.

I have read many, many books about writing, but there has only been one (so far) that came to me with exactly the right message at exactly the time I needed it. Immediate Fiction by Jerry Cleaver. Six month after reading it I actually completed a novel for the first time. And a year after that, it was published. I don't know if anyone else is in need of Cleaver's message, but it certainly spoke to me.

Immediate Fiction covers all the important fundamentals.

> Volevo sapere se conoscete un libro per imparare a scrivere

Ti consiglio di cercare su /r/writing/ (e sugli altri subreddit dedicati alla scrittura che sono linkati da /r/writinghub) perché spesso ho visto dei consigli su libri dedicati alla scrittura creativa, anche se al momento non ti saprei dire quali fossero.

Personalmente ne ho letti parecchi di libri simili, ma me ne sono piaciuti (moderatamente) soltanto due: questo e questo. Purtroppo non credo ne esista una traduzione italiana.

> volevo lanciare un'idea di poter creare anche sun sub in italiano

Ogni volta che viene creato un nuovo subreddit in italiano, una buona parte degli utenti di /r/italy si lamenta del fatto che già si è in pochi e creando nuovi subreddit ci si frammenta ancora di più.

Se preferisci, crealo, ma per quanto mi riguarda i racconti originali sono i benvenuti qui su /r/Libri.

Immediate Fiction. Grab a copy. Read it cover-to-cover. He gets past all of the cruft and boils writing down to its essentials.

My answer has mixed opinions at this board, but the fact is a professional writer needs to have a strong grasp of business sense to keep from being torn apart by vultures, especially trad publishing vultures. The contracts are stuff of legend and getting worse. Read every last word of this blog to catch up on the situation.
This page is very helpful too.

So what that means is, the better your business and marketing chops, the more you'll have in your toolbox to deal with everything that comes with being a writer. We don't just sit back and collect checks. There's marketing, contract know-how, and strategic decisions to make whether indie or trad. You have to know how to make your own website, strike up your own social media, and make sure no one is stabbing you in the back.

English lit? A skeptic here. Read the classics. Read the books in the syllabus. But major on it? One of the biggest complaints I read on the tubes is how college classes skew prose into such a pretzel that the only thing they teach is how to be obscure. I mean, I guess it depends on who you want your audience to be. People who turn their noses up at even well-written, people-accessible genre books? Or people who want to become enveloped in a story that transcends their everyday life?

Do I think you should be well-read? Fuck. Yeah. Am I slamming the classics? Not on whole. Do I think it's a shame profs aren't teaching basic plot structure during the entire curriculum? Oh yes.

One of the three links I gave you directly above (Immediate Fiction) was written by a man who was FURIOUS after he graduated from college and realized he still knew jack-shit about writing a book.