Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction

by Jeff VanderMeer, Ryan Burke, Tanya Eby

2013 · 384 pages

rhetoric
study and teaching
imagery (psychology)
english language
originality in literature
imagination

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About this book

"This all-new definitive guide to writing imaginative fiction takes a completely novel approach and fully exploits the visual nature of fantasy through original drawings, maps, renderings, and exercises to create a spectacularly beautiful and inspiring object. Employing an accessible, example-rich approach, Wonderbook energizes and motivates while also providing practical, nuts-and-bolts information needed to improve as a writer. Aimed at aspiring and intermediate-level writers, Wonderbook includes helpful sidebars and essays from some of the biggest names in fantasy today, such as George R. R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, Catherynne M. Valente, and Karen Joy Fowler, to name a few"--

Quotes by Jeff VanderMeer

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An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture.
A fresh river in a beautiful meadow Imagined in his mind The good Painter, who would some day paint it
It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?