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  • Surviving the Writing Life

    How to Write for Money without Going Crazy

    by Deren Hansen ...
    Series Book 1 - Dunlith Hill Writing Guides
    Like real life, the writing life is filled with contradictions and perplexities. The world of commercial publishing is counter-intuitive and writers dive in weighed down with misconceptions, delusions, and unrealistic expectations.Perhaps because most of us write in some form every day we believe we can—and should—write a book. We also assume writing is the hard part and once our manuscript is ... Read more

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  • The Artisan Way Collection

    Comprising the Dunlith Hill Writing Guides to Surviving the Writing Life, Professional Relationships, Sustainable Creativity, and Artisan Publishing

    by Deren Hansen ...
    Series Book 1 - Dunlith Hill Writing Collections
    Being a professional writer involves more than mastering the craft of writing and the art of storytelling. There are the constant challenges of managing your own expectations as a writer, dealing with other people in the industry, maintaining your creativity, and running what is, in truth, a small business.This collection includes four Dunlith Hill Writing Guides:Surviving the Writing Life: How to ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Masterful Writing Collection

    Comprising the Dunlith Hill Writing Guides to Story Theory, Verisimilitude, and Character and Archetype

    by Deren Hansen ...
    Series Book 2 - Dunlith Hill Writing Collections
    In order to master the craft of writing and the art of storytelling you must internalize the rhythms of the human experience and the ways we share that experience. There are deep and consistent patterns in the ways we tell stories, weave narrative illusions, and develop fascinating characters.This collection includes three Dunlith Hill Writing Guides:Story Theory: How to Write Like J.R.R. Tolkien ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Professional Relationships

    How to Deal with the Characters you can’t Re-write

    by Deren Hansen ...
    Series Book 2 - Dunlith Hill Writing Guides
    For good or ill, once money enters the picture you become a professional writer: even if you’ve never received a penny for your words, as soon as you try to sell them—to agents, editors, or the public—the nature of many of your social relationships changes. People will no longer care about you; they’ll only care about what you and your writing can do for them.This guide looks at all the people who ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sustainable Creativity

    How to Enjoy a Committed, Long-term Relationship with your Muse

    by Deren Hansen ...
    Series Book 3 - Dunlith Hill Writing Guides
    We generally associate creativity with spasms of brilliance even though waiting for inspiration is like waiting for lightning to strike—it happens, but it’s rarely predictable or repeatable.Committed, long-term relationships don’t simply happen: more than just hard work, it takes discipline and wisdom to keep a romance alive. The same is true for creativity.This book is about the discipline and ... Read more

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  • Artisan Publishing

    Why to Choose the Road Less Traveled

    by Deren Hansen ...
    Series Book 7 - Dunlith Hill Writing Guides
    Electronic publishing has upset the equilibrium enjoyed by the publishing industry for the last half-century. While some celebrate the overthrow of the gate-keeping elite and the democratization of publishing, others lament the end of literary culture.Beneath the enthusiasm and the angst, a new market has opened as commercial publishers abandon mid-list books in favor of blockbusters. Thanks to ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Character and Archetype

    How to Make Readers Fall in Love with your Imaginary Friends

    by Deren Hansen ...
    Series Book 6 - Dunlith Hill Writing Guides
    One inescapable fact about our species is that we’re social animals: people are at the center of our universe. We have a long history of trying to understand the natural world by personifying its aspects. That’s why believable characters make or break our stories.A novel, however, is not a portrait. What readers really want is to see how interesting characters act and transform themselves over the ... Read more

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  • Verisimilitude

    How Illusions, Confidence Games, and Skillful Lying can Improve Your Fiction

    by Deren Hansen ...
    Series Book 5 - Dunlith Hill Writing Guides
    In terms of objective reality, a work of fiction is an elaborate lie. No writer thinks of themselves as a liar simply because they write fiction, but that’s the fact of the matter. And no other writing guide will admit to teaching you to be a better writer by showing you how to be a better liar—at least in a narrative sense.A good lie rings true. Verisimilitude, or the appearance of truth, is ... Read more

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  • Story Theory

    How to Write Like J.R.R. Tolkien in Three Easy Steps

    by Deren Hansen ...
    Series Book 4 - Dunlith Hill Writing Guides
    We all know how to tell stories just like we all know our native language, having heard both since we were born. People, however, who study their native language discover there’s much they misunderstood or simply didn’t know. The same is true of story when we look at it more carefully.With topics that include the theory of story as model, the fractal key to narrative complexity, and the art of the ... Read more

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