A Book on Writing, Fiction and Memoir

A book on Writing, Writing Fiction

Travel deeply into the untold cosmos of your imagination!

A Unique, Fun and Inexpensive Way to Have a Personalized Course in Fiction Writing.

Learn how to open up and write your short stories and even write a book!

The Art of Fiction Writing is a book on writing that teaches you how to write a book. The Art of Fiction Writing gives you easy-to-use techniques, fiction writing prompts and creative writing tips while opening the doorways to the passion of your imagination.

Whether you are a beginning writer or writing a novel, short story, memoir or creative non-fiction, whether your fiction writing is flowing or you are in the grips of writer's block, The Art of Fiction Writing is a great how-to-book on book writing!

Learn the five basic techniques of fiction writing. They're all you'll ever need!
Learn to identify and defang your Inner Critic so you can write a book!
Find out why risk and passion have more to do with writing a book than finding the perfect word or phrase.
Meet characters living inside you who you never new existed! They can write the book for you!
Find out why a "room of your own" is important.
Learn how to turn fact in fiction -- some great tips on book writing.
Learn to invite the erotic into your writing and find out what erotic really means in terms of your writing.
Explore the powerful technique of interviewing your characters. This helps writing a book a lot easier.

Purpose of this Book: it goes beyond just learning how to write a book...

The processes and exercises in this workbook are designed to get you out of your conscious mind and the tyrannical hold of your Inner Critic, and allow you to fall down the Rabbit Hole into the realms of the creative unconscious—deeper than you have ever gone before. This is a great entry way into the journey of writing a book, a short story or even just opening the creative flow. One of my students put it this way:

"When I reflect on where I started and where I am now, I know that the journey I have taken through working with Emily is the most valuable experience of my adult life. I went into this place where I dared to peel away all or most of my defenses, a little at a time, until what is left is the core of what makes me me. It is alive, it throbs with passion and anger, it can feel sorrow and elation; it lives and breathes because it is me."

~ Linda Rizzotto

The Art of Fiction Writing or How to Fall Down the Rabbit Hole Without Trying

Wonderland as Metaphor for the Creative Writer

Falling down the rabbit hole into Wonderland is a perfect metaphor for the creative journey which can never take place in the “real” or conscious world. Writing, whether it be fiction, poetry or nonfiction, finds its origins in the dark, fertile chaos of the unconscious. If you don’t meet Cheshire cats and Mad Hatters, Tweedledees and Tweedledums, mad queens, dragons, flying monkeys and monsters, or your version of the above, then you have not fallen. This is not to say you have to be writing fantasy or horror to open to your unconscious, but as you will see, the journey for the writer must hold metaphorically a good sprinkling of both.

Explore Emily's Novels

Petersburg

The Swing

The Wing and the Flame

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Ordering

The Art of Fiction Writing, book and tape set. $49.95
Includes the book, 217 pages, and two audio tapes, 90 and 60 minutes that teaches you how to write a book.

A book on Writing, advise on writing a book How to Write a book, Advise and tips on book writing

Testimonials

"Using Emily’s book, The Art of Fiction Writing and the tapes I wrote over 90 pages in 10 days. It was one of the most intense—and fun—writing experiences I’ve ever had!"

~ Valerie Storey, author
"The Essential Guide for New Writers"

"Emily's workbook and tapes are helping me get past the part of my mind that writes rational, predictable, orderly and boring work. The more I use The Art of Fiction Writing, the more I'm discovering scary, exciting, surprising and unpredictable sources of creativity. I feel as if I'm getting a lot of guidance in recognizing and getting past the monsters that guide the gate to truly creative writing."

~Amy Meltzer

“The examples from the author’s own and students’ writings are great fun, sometimes dramatic —wonderfully apt; in sum here is a useful how-to which will also remain a stimulating source for self-renewal.”

~Tom Lewis,

The Westchester Writer

"Emily's peculiar genius is helping fiction writers to find, feed, wrestling and live with their demons or muses. Where do my stories and characters come from, how do they take shape in me, how can I allow and at the same times manage, their release onto the unfriendly, staring page? These are the kinds of questions we tale tellers "work on" at these "work shops." The angel, bright or dark, must be conjured before words can truly attach."

~ Kurt Blankmeyer