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William Bernhardt

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Painting the Perfect Picture

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How do you create a fictional world that readers will want to visit? How do you paint a picture that springs to life on the page? William Bernhardt explains how to use description and setting to enhance your story without slowing the pace. Bernhardt discusses showing without telling, providing descriptive details that inform character, and integrating visuals and action with stealth description. In his direct, no-nonsense style, Bernhardt explains how to use all five senses to create a fully realized portrait.William Bernhardt is the bestselling author of more than fifty books, including the bestselling Daniel Pike novels. Bernhardt is also o… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-948263-51-1
  • EAN: 9781948263511
  • Produktnummer: 34188099
  • Verlag: William Bernhardt Writing Programs, Inc.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 112 S.
  • Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.3 cm x D0.6 cm 144 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 144

Über den Autor


William Bernhardt is the author of over fifty books, including the bestselling Daniel Pike series, the historical novel Challengers of the Dust, two books of poetry, the Red Sneaker books on fiction writing. In addition, Bernhardt founded the Red Sneaker Writers Center to mentor aspiring writers. The Center hosts an annual writers conference (WriterCon), small-group writing retreats, a newsletter, and a bi-weekly podcast. More than forty of Bernhardt's students have subsequently published with major houses. He is also the owner of Balkan Press, which publishes poetry and fiction as well as the literary journal Conclave. In 2019, Bernhardt received the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Center for the Book. In addition to his novels and poetry, Bernhardt has written plays, a musical (book and score), humor, children stories, biography, and puzzles. He has edited two anthologies (Legal Briefs and Natural Suspect) as fundraisers for The Nature Conservancy and the Children's Legal Defense Fund. OSU named him Oklahoma's Renaissance Man. In his spare time, he has enjoyed surfing, digging for dinosaurs, trekking through the Himalayas, paragliding, scuba diving, caving, zip-lining over the canopy of the Costa Rican rain forest, and jumping out of an airplane at 10,000 feet. In 2013, he became a Jeopardy! champion, winning over $20,000. In 2017, when Bernhardt delivered the keynote address at the San Francisco Writers Conference, chairman Michael Larsen noted that in addition to penning novels, Bernhardt can write a sonnet, play a sonata, plant a garden, try a lawsuit, teach a class, cook a gourmet meal, beat you at Scrabble, and work the New York Times crossword in under five minutes.

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