Author of more than 50 novels offers practical help on how to build your novel. Covers conception, structure, situation, the springboard scene, building conflict, people and places, the worry factor, scene and sequel as building blocks, and character development. Dwight V. Swain spent a lifetime writing newspaper and magazine articles, pulp fiction, and screenplays. For more than twenty years he taught in the Professional Writing Program at the University of Oklahoma. His popular books, Techniques of the Selling Writer and Creating Characters: How to Build Story People are published by the University of Oklahoma Press.
