{"product_id":"the-jane-austen-writers-club-inspiration-and-advice-from-the-world-s-best-loved-novelist","title":"The Jane Austen Writers’ Club: Inspiration and Advice from the World’s Best-loved Novelist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA spirited and useful guide for writers with tips and tricks from Jane Austen, whose novels stand the test of time, by her great great great great grand niece.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePretty much anything anyone needs to know about writing can be learned from Jane Austen. While creative writing manuals tend to use examples from twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Jane Austen Writers' Club\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the first to look at the methods and devices used by the world’s most beloved novelist. Austen was a creator of immortal characters and a pioneer in her use of language and point of view; her advice continues to be relevant two centuries after her death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere Rebecca Smith examines the major aspects of writing fiction--plotting, characterization, openings and endings, dialogue, settings, and writing methods--sharing the advice Austen gave in letters to her aspiring novelist nieces and nephew, and providing many and varied exercises for writers to try, using examples from Austen’s work.\u003cbr\u003eExercises include:\u003cbr\u003e*Show your character doing the thing he or she most loves doing. In the opening scene of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePersuasion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Sir Walter Elliot looks himself up in the Baronetage, which is the Regency equivalent of Googling oneself. That single scene gives us a clear understanding of the kind of man he is and sets up the plot.\u003cbr\u003e* Use Jane Austen’s first attempts at stories to get yourself started. Write a very short story inspired by \"The Beautifull Cassandra,\" a work of eighteenth-century flash fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Jane Austen Writers' Club\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a fresh primer on writing that features utterly timeless advice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"(Author), Paul Turner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52048065167681,"sku":null,"price":1500.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/3087\/9041\/files\/48_57a1dc08-b427-4281-86ca-2bbe890332ed.webp?v=1785758106","url":"https:\/\/www.bookemporium.pk\/products\/the-jane-austen-writers-club-inspiration-and-advice-from-the-world-s-best-loved-novelist","provider":"The Book Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}