ONE
GREAT WAY TO WRITE SHORT STORIES
A
STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH
BEN
NYBERG
WRITER’S DIGEST BOOKS, 1988 – HARDBACK,
FIRST EDITION
SYNOPSIS: Do you feel the impulse to write? to become the master of your own
literary universe? to develop your ability to pack character, mood, and plot
into a few pages of fiction? Then you’ve plucked the right guidebook from the
shelf.
Ben Nyberg’s Primer Method approach is
like no other. Nuts-and-bolts. Step-by-step. He leaves theory to the theorists
and spells out the specifics of how to construct a short story from start to
finish. But if writing by the Primer Method can be likened to building a
structure, the result is anything but bricks and mortar. It’ll be flesh and
blood, because you’ll fashion its framework from your own experience. You’ll
use actual events from your life and shape them to create a world your readers
will find real and compelling. And characters they’ll care about. Nyberg helps
you get into the skins of people in your story – even those who are less
admirable – and let them laugh, cry, sweat and live as they are born on your
page.
You’ll discover distancing and use it to
tell your story as a fly-on-the-wall: all seeing or close-up and immediate. You’ll
see why detail spices writing, and you’ll use it to make your readers see,
scent, taste, and touch. You’ll learn to capture dialogue on paper, even in its
everyday imprecision. You’ll free your imagination to create consequences, strange,
sparkling, startling - and real. And you’ll backtrack to construct the causes
for these effects.
Throughout the book, Nyberg teaches by
example. He uses the work of Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekov and Sally V. Doud
to give you a solid grounding in short story structure; snippets of Hemmingway to
show the power of perspective; and stories by two of the author’s students
using this Primer Method, to demonstrate how the story adds direction and depth
by degrees.
There are many ways to write short
stories. But only Nyberg’s Primer Method guarantees great results in your
writing. Use it. You’ll take justifiable pride in the outcome.
BOOK INFORMATION: Hardback first edition
of Ben Nyberg’s One Way to to Write Great
Short Stories published by F & W Publications, Inc. via their Writer’s
Digest imprint in 1988. The book was purchased in a
library sale, and the flyleaf has library information stamped on it and a
sticker attached. The dust jacket is tatty with some small tears and other
minor damage around the edges, but it is in very good condition otherwise. The cover (which is of red linen with the title and publisher’s logo
embossed in silver on the spine) has minimal wear, the pages are free
of tears, marks or folds, there is no fading or discolouration and the binding
is secure. Don’t miss the chance to pick up a copy of
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