Wordcrafting: The Craft of Writing Fiction and Nonfiction

By Kat Smith

Learn the basics of writing both fiction and nonfiction. Authors Kat Smith and Ann Fields combined have writen 8 books and will walk aspiring authors through the process of crafting your book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kat Smith
• Release date: Jun 17, 2011
• ISBN: 9780971502482

Kat Smith

Katherine “Kat” Smith is formerly a co-host of a four year, syndicated morning radio program with ABC Radio Networks, Inc. Her Wednesday one hour show, A Woman’s Point of View, focused on relationships.Recently certified as a relationship coach Kat also created and manufactures a communication game for couples. She is native of New Orleans, who learned early that life is not fair, it’s just life. One of twelve siblings from ten fathers, Kat was born to a mother who’s own confusion with love created damaging patterns that she and her sisters repeated in their own relationships. Now she speaks to help women who cannot articulate or communicate their experiences with topics that concentrate on love and life enrichment, clarity of message in both career or personal relationships and recovery.Kat is the author of several books including Romantic Retreats in Texas, Seeds From Mama’s Garden and programs such as Love Perspective and Marketing Your Book & You, that support healthy emotional living along with self/book promotion.

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Wordcrafting

The craft of writing

fiction and nonfiction

By

Ann Fields

&

Katherine Kat Smith

Wordcrafting:

The craft of writing fiction and nonfiction.

Copyright © 2008

by Katherine Kat Smith and Ann Fields

Publisher: TomKat Productions, LLC.

POBox 701478 - Dallas, TX 75370-1478

United States of America

www.tomkatproductions.com

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Writing

Cover design by Kat Smith

Contents

The Basics & Process of Writing Fiction1

By Ann Fields

Learn a process that will set the foundation for successful novel,

short story and screenplay fiction writing, as well as fundamental fiction terms.

The Basics & Process of Writing Nonfiction14

By Katherine Kat Smith

Learn the basic creative techniques of nonfiction writing,

which will narrow the writing focus and develop individual style.

Follow easy formats of conducting productive interviews, of per-

forming research, of presenting facts with evocative detail and

making your writing flow with captivating creativity.

Appendix

The Basics and Process of Writing Fiction

By Ann Fields

The task of filling a blank page with words can be daunting if a methodology or process is not known. There are as many approaches to writing fiction, as there are authors. This section will provide one process or approach that is a hybrid of several methods. You may find this process works for you. You may find you’ll skip some of the steps but embrace others. You may not find it helpful at all. The point is to try it in hopes it will make writing a little less challenging.

I. PREMISE/CONCEPT STATEMENT:

The first step of fiction writing is to know what you’re writing about. Whether you’re writing a novel, screenplay, short story or any other form of fiction, you must have a general idea of the story you want to tell.

A premise or concept statement helps you define what you are writing about. It is a statement that basically tells others