In order to get more accurate results, our search has the following Google-Type search functionality:
If you use '+' in front of a word, then that word will be present in the search results.
ex: Harry +Potter will return results with the word 'Potter'.
If you use '-' in front of a word, then that word will be absent in the search results.
ex: Harry -Potter will return results without the word 'Potter'.
If you use 'AND' between two words, then both of those words will be present in the search results.
ex: Harry AND Potter will return results with both 'Harry' and 'Potter'.
If you use 'OR' between two words, then bth of those words may or may not be present in the search results.
ex: Harry OR Potter will return results with just 'Harry', results with just 'Potter' and results with both 'Harry' and 'Potter'.
If you use 'NOT' before a word, then that word will be absent in the search results.
ex: Harry NOT Potter will return results without the word 'Potter'.
Placing '""' around words will perform a phrase search. The search results will contain those words in that order.
ex: "Harry Potter" will return any results with 'Harry Potter' in them, but not 'Potter Harry'.
Using '*' in a word will perform a wildcard search. The '*' signifies any number of characters. Searches can not start with a wildcard.
ex: Pot*er will return results with words starting with 'Pot' and ending in 'er'. In this case, 'Potter' will be a match.
At the heart of writing - at the apex of storytelling - there is only one principle, and it winds like a golden thread across all the books and courses.
But it gets lost in the ever-spreading panoply of detail that the creative writing industry relies on to keep its wheels turning.
This book pulls out that thread, polishes it and reveals the way it penetrates storytelling.
It will be invaluable to anyone creating fictional worlds - but most particularly to novelists, who are most in danger of forgetting it. Or not noticing it in the first place.
Tim Lott knows he can't teach anyone to write a novel (that's one of the lies propagated by the novel-writing industry).
But he can teach someone how to build a firm platform on which they can stand in order to explore whether they have the talent, will and determination that writing a novel takes.
At the heart of writing - at the apex of storytelling - there is only one principle, and it winds like a golden thread across all the books and courses.
But it gets lost in the ever-spreading panoply of detail that the creative writing industry relies on to keep its wheels turning.
This book pulls out that thread, polishes it and reveals the way it penetrates storytelling.
It will be invaluable to anyone creating fictional worlds - but most particularly to novelists, who are most in danger of forgetting it. Or not noticing it in the first place.
Tim Lott knows he can't teach anyone to write a novel (that's one of the lies propagated by the novel-writing industry).
But he can teach someone how to build a firm platform on which they can stand in order to explore whether they have the talent, will and determination that writing a novel takes.