Monkeys with Typewriters How to Write Fiction and Unlock the Secret Power of Stories
- 4 Aug 2016
- 9781786890290
- £14.99
- 496 pp
- 129×198mm
- 6 Sep 2012
- 9780857863799
- £11.99
- 496 pp
In a few words
How to write fiction and unlock the secret power of stories
In a few words
How to write fiction and unlock the secret power of stories
Thomas has the mesmerising power of a great storyteller.
Ingenious and original . . . A cracking good yarn, fizzing with intelligence.
Thomas has the mesmerising power of a great storyteller.
Ingenious and original . . . A cracking good yarn, fizzing with intelligence.
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Stories are everywhere…
Exploring the great plots from Plato to The Matrix and from Tolstoy to Toy Story, this is a book for anyone who wants to unlock any narrative and learn to create their own. With startling and original insights into how we construct stories, this is a creative writing book like no other. It will show you how to read and write better.
More about
the book
Stories are everywhere…
Exploring the great plots from Plato to The Matrix and from Tolstoy to Toy Story, this is a book for anyone who wants to unlock any narrative and learn to create their own. With startling and original insights into how we construct stories, this is a creative writing book like no other. It will show you how to read and write better.
This book might just change your life.
A sprawling ode to curiosity and the life of the mind.
Whether you want to write or not, Monkeys with Typewriters is the kind of book that renews your enthusiasm for reading in general, a book that believes - and encourages its readers to believe - that great fiction matters
Thomas. . . eschews the self-flagellating ethic of some courses by preaching tolerance for fancy prose style, and exhorts her readers to be ambitious and "ask important questions" with their fiction, an admirable stand
Leo Benedictus
ObserverThis book might just change your life.
A sprawling ode to curiosity and the life of the mind.
Thomas's bold, exciting guide to the world of fiction
