Adult Review – Creating Stories – non fiction
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Book Details:
Book Title
: Creating Stories by Hank Quense
Category: Adult Non-Fiction, 106 pages
Genre: Self Help,
Publisher: Strange Worlds Publishing
Release date: April 1, 2017
Content Rating: G
Do you have a story in you?
Do you know how to write it or how to tell it? Creating Stories has the answers. Hank Quense, the author of more than twenty books, tells you how to do it. He believes that stories come from the melding of three elements: getting ideas, story design and story-telling. Ideas have to come from the author. Creating Stories covers the last two. The book concentrates on developing characters including such rarely discussed requirements such as a dominant reader emotion and the character’s biography. Plots are also covered in depth and a number of graphics are included to illustrate complex points. Another topic discusses subplots and how to utilize them and how to nest them within the main plot. A separate chapter discusses the relationship between the plot and the emotional arcs. Other topics covered are: character arcs, scene design, point-of-view, writing voice.
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My Adult Review of Creating Your Story
Quense, Hank. Creating Stories. NP: Strange Worlds Publishing, 2017.
I have read a number of writing books and even taken a couple of writing courses and I found Hank Quense’s book Creating Stories to be the help I was looking for in those books and courses. I will be referring to this book the next time I sit down to write a story.
The book is divided into four parts – setting & character, plots & scene design, storytelling techniques, and “other stuff.” Quense includes many tips and suggestions for ways to map out a book ahead of time. He also includes suggestions for templates which I’m sure will be of use to me in the future.
High school and college writing instructors may want to consider this book as a textbook. The information in this book could help students become better writers, no matter the genre they are interested in.
Creating Stories could easily be added to a K-12 Christian school non fiction section. High school students interested in writing would benefit from reading this book.
I received a complimentary copy of Creating Stories. This is my honest review.
After Creating Your Story:
Book Title
: Self-Publish a Book in 10 Steps: And Market It by Hank QuenseCategory
: Adult Non-Fiction, 88 pagesGenre: Self Help
Publisher
: Strange Worlds PublishingRelease date: Dec 1, 2021
Content Rating: G
Self-publishing a book is difficult.
This book simplifies it by breaking down a self-publishing and marketing project into 10 steps. This step-by-step process will get your book published and initiate the pre-launch marketing.
Hank Quense has written and self-published over twenty books, both fiction and non-fiction. He is the author of the Author Blueprint Series of books. The Series concentrates on providing valuable guidance on fiction writing, self-publishing and book marketing. Self-publish a Book in 10 Steps is Book 6 in the series.
The book details such vital tasks as developing a compelling book description, building an author platform and getting book reviews to list a few.
Learn the ten-step process that will self-publish and market your book!
Hank Quense has self-published his books for over 12 years. His non-fiction books cover fiction writing (Creating Stories), self-publishing (How to Self-publish and Market a Book, Self-publish a Book in 10 Steps), marketing (Book Marketing Fundamentals) and author business (Business Basics for Authors).
He also lectures on these subjects in schools, libraries and on webinars.
Hank recently started https://hankquense.podia.com/ The site provides solutions to pain points (problems) for fiction writers, self-publishing authors and authors who are trying to market their books.
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