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Author: Alfie Thompson
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Publisher: Running Press (June 13, 2006)
Pages: 256 pages
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Rating: 4.3
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Alfie Thompson has given writing workshops from New York to Hawaii. She's earned Write Touch Reader's Awards and climbed as high as on Ingram's most requested author list. She lives with her husband and her dog Molly near Kansas City. What can Hollywood's biggest features teach you about writing?

Camera! Fiction! by Val Daniels and Alfie Thompson. Alfie Thompson's guide to writing novels is a "must have" for any writer's library

Camera! Fiction! by Val Daniels and Alfie Thompson. Alfie Thompson's guide to writing novels is a "must have" for any writer's library. The book goes beyond the dense discourse found in so many writing instruction books and provides a practical "how to" approach that that teaches the reader to watch movies with a writer's eye. Her approach provides an exceptionally fast and effective way for a fiction writer to absorb proven techniques for developing characters, creating interesting plots, building scenes, establishing motivation, strengthening conflict and fixing problems in a story.

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How many times have you watched a popular movie and thought, "I'd like to write something like that," or "Even I can write better dialogue!" Here's your chance to learn how to write a novel...by watching movies like "Speed," "The Sixth Sense," "Clueless," "Die Hard," "While You Were Sleeping," and more! For the first time, a professional writing instructor and movie buff will take you through the steps necessary to craft your own commercial novel using techniques found in your favorite films. What can Hollywood's biggest features teach you about writing? How to watch movies with a writer's eye. Infusing character traits into scenes and plots. Using material goals to show internal motivation. Techniques for making scenes do double duty, including foreshadowing and flashback. What is a credibility gap, and how you should bridge it.Plus: Three 'tricks' for fixing holes in your plot, characters or anything else in your story. Thompson guides you frame by frame through the ins and outs of writing a hit, in a text that is packed with "Quick Tips" and "Quick Fixes." This is an indispensable reference work that will have you polishing your prose--and preparing it for publication--in no time!

Reviews about Lights! Camera! Fiction! (7):

Shou

Alfie Thompson's guide to writing novels is a "must have" for any writer's library. The book goes beyond the dense discourse found in so many writing instruction books and provides a practical "how to" approach that that teaches the reader to watch movies with a writer's eye.

Her approach provides an exceptionally fast and effective way for a fiction writer to absorb proven techniques for developing characters, creating interesting plots, building scenes, establishing motivation, strengthening conflict and fixing problems in a story.

Well organized and easy to read, this book is now my favorite book on writing a novel!

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This is a novel approach to writing...using movies to explain character development, external goals and motivation, internal goals and character development, premise (one of the biggies, that's hard to explain at times), tension, conflict, etc., etc., etc....

If you're a visual learner, this book will explain what hours of workshops fail to do...seeing what Ms. Thompson has done on the page to explain all of the above, seems so simple.

But then all great ideas do seem simple once explained. (Duh!)

I sure wish she would have written this book ten years ago, it would have saved me a lot of time in trying to write a compelling novel.

My red hat off to you...you deserve it!

Ucantia

This is a MUST HAVE BOOK FOR WRITERS of fiction. I dare say, even the best nonfiction can be better if the author is familiar with the techniques in this book.I can tell you with certainty Alfie Thompson's books have helped me write better than any of the writing coaches I've had. Dwight Swain, Jack Bickham, Mel Odom, and others introduced me to techniques, but Alfie helped me incorporate them and polish them. WHY? Because I'm dense, and she explains things in a way that I can understand. I LOVED all of the others - please, don't get me wrong. It's just that Alfie's way was the one that worked best for me.

Bralore

This is one of my absolute favorites. The movies are easy and cheap to find. Each movie example is used to thoroughly focus on a single concept. Even if you understand the fiction basics, the author offers up plenty of nuggets, insights, and tips that are useful. Using movies was just genius, much easier than wading through novel excerpts that have no context around them or the usual dry literary analysis of 19th and early 20th century works. All in all, this was very accessible and fun, and even factoring in the movie-viewing time, I got through the entire book fairly quickly. Highly recommended!

Fearlesssinger

Five stars is not enough for this book. It's in a category of its own because of the quality of the information, and the fact that it is put across so painlessly, using examples from popular films.

The title suggests it's a book about films. It's not, it's about how to write a good novel, but it uses films to show examples of plot characterisation, suspense etc. ( The author has published ten novels as Val Daniels. )

I've read and studied most of the available how-to-write books, and this one is the most enjoyable to read, and provides the most useful teaching. She explains a topic, why it is important, then gives examples of HOW it has been cleverly used in films.

( It would make a great gift for a writer friend but if you don't have it yourself, buy it now. I've gleaned more useful gems from this book than from dozens of writing magazines. )

It covers: Characterisation, External Goals and Motivation, Internal Goals and Character Growth, Premise, Creating Tension, Conflict, Suspending Disbelief.

Then it has three chapters based on using the points already covered : Five Star Plotting, Putting it all Together, Parting Thoughts and Other Useful Stuff.

It includes some forms at the back to help you apply the points, and the book itself is a comfortable read, being printed on white paper with white space on the pages.

The main films used are: the Sandra Bullock film 'While You Were Sleeping', Spider-man, Speed, Clueless, Lethal Weapon, The Sixth Sense, Die Hard, Bridget Jones Diary, Jaws.

If you're thinking well those are not very good films for the sort of book I want to write, be patient. You'll be amazed at how much you will learn about character development from the examples she uses, and you'll also want to watch those films again.

As an example of the quality teaching, 'Premise' has always been a woolly concept for me. I've read about it in other books -James N Frey covers it well, but it somehow has never fully sunk in, and I keep having to go back over it.

She covers premise by coming at it from different angles, explains how other writers have decribed it, and offers examples, so I ended up with a far better understanding of what it is, why it's important, and how to apply it to my writing.

But the main benefit I got from this book is the way it lets you relate one concept to another so I now have a far better understanding of why characterisation / goal / motivation / premise / backstory are there and how they relate to one another.

I would highly recommend James Scott Bell's 'Plot and Structure' as an overall primer book for writing a novel. I would also highly recommend Les Edgerton's 'Hooked' as a second level book, but as a sheer enjoyable read, and a book to painlessly improve overall understanding of the key topics above, especially characterisation, this one is the best.

Vispel

This is a fantastic book for writers and avid movie goers. It breaks down the tools of the trade plus gives excellent tips to improve one's writing. I especially liked the "Quick Fixes" which cut to the chase and gives quick techniques to make your story stronger. Thompson's movie selections are great and they address each aspect of story telling. No writer should be without this book!

Fenrinos

This book is well organized, easy to understand and just chock full of extra tips. A fabulous addition to any writer's Craft shelf.

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