The Art of War for Writers: Fiction Writing Strategies, Tactics, and Exercises

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Drawing inspiration from Sun Tzu's The Art of War, the author offers tactics and exercises on idea generation and development, character building, plotting, drafting, querying and submitting, dealing with rejection, coping with envy and unrealistic expectations and much more. Original.

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