Creative Writing Author:Isabelle Ziegler This is a concise guide for beginning writers, designed to help them cope with the questions and problems that arise in their everyday work. It includes discussion and advice on such subjects as methods of characterization, choice of subject, dialogue, point of view, structure, tone, and style. — "In less than 150 pages the author covers the nove... more »l, novelette, short story, science fiction, play, film, television, article, essay and nonfiction book. In addition, she tells you how to prepare and submit manuscripts, lists markets and reputable agents and concludes with a "literary vocabulary.'...I know of no better guide for the serious, beginning writer."