Writing Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & Horror for Dummies by Dakan, Rick

Description: Rick Dakan and Ryan G. Van Cleave, PhD are professors at the prestigious Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, where they teach such courses as Writing Science Fiction, Writing for Video Games, and Writing for Shared Worlds. Both of them have ended a D&D campaign with a single well-placed fireball. Foreword xvii Introduction 1 Part 1: Getting Started: The Basics of Story 5 Chapter 1: Taking Journeys into the Imagination 7 Chapter 2: Creating Characters 19 Chapter 3: Laying the Foundation -- The Power of Plot 41 Chapter 4: Crafting Many Worlds, Many Media 65 Part 2: Worldbuilding: Journeys to Other Worlds 79 Chapter 5: Building a World Like No Other 81 Chapter 6: Letting Your Research and Imagination Run Wild 93 Chapter 7: Showing the Explosion: Exposition That Thrills! 105 Chapter 8: This Planet Will Eat You: Worlds Are Characters, Too 117 Part 3: Science Fiction: Journeys into the Future 129 Chapter 9: Answering "What If?" 131 Chapter 10: A Spaceship for Every Occasion, an Occasion for Every Spaceship 139 Chapter 11: Encountering Aliens That Audiences Want to Know, Love, and Fear 157 Chapter 12: It's Alive! Or Is It? -- Imagining Robots and Artificial Intelligence 171 Chapter 13: Constructing Planetary Plots and Earth-Changing Stories 185 Part 4: Fantasy: Journeys into the Imagination 197 Chapter 14: Bringing Wonder to Your Story 199 Chapter 15: Worldbuilding on the Shoulders of Giants, Faeries, Dragons, and Hobbits 213 Chapter 16: Conjuring Story Magic 229 Chapter 17: Forming Really Fantastic (and Fantastically Real) Monsters 241 Part 5: Horror: Journeys into Fear 253 Chapter 18: Creating Dread, Fear, and Terror 255 Chapter 19: Fashioning Fearful Plots and Sinister Scenes 271 Chapter 20: Shaping Your Scares -- Menacing Monsters and Human Horrors 287 Chapter 21: Lurking in Every Shadow: Where Horror Resides 305 Part 6: The Journey from Writing to Publication 315 Chapter 22: Revising and Editing Like a Pro 317 Chapter 23: Getting Second Opinions: Editors, Experts, and Sensitivity Readers 331 Chapter 24: The Three Ps: Publication, Pitching, and Promotion 343 Part 7: The Part of Tens 357 Chapter 25: Ten Ways to Jump-Start a Stalled Story 359 Chapter 26: Ten Common Pitfalls in Writing Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror 367 Chapter 27: Ten Popular Story Modes 375 Index 385

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