Immediate Fiction: A Complete Writing Course

The Only Writing Book You'll Ever Need

From the legendary creator of the Writer's Loft in Chicago, comes a writing course for those who want to see results now. Immediate Fiction covers the entire process of writing including manuscript preparation, time management, finding an idea, getting words on the page, staying unblocked, and submitting to agents and publishers.

With insightful tips and advice, Jerry Cleaver helps writers manage doubts, fears, blocks, and panic all while helping to develop their writing in minutes a day. A practical and accessible resource, this book has everything the aspiring writer needs to write and sell novels, short stories, screenplays, and stage plays.

• Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide from New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School
• Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories
• The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
• Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity
• Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
• Understanding Show, Don't Tell: And Really Getting It
• Becoming a Writer
• The Idea: The Seven Elements of a Viable Story for Screen, Stage or Fiction
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
• The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface