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Marcy Kennedy

Biography

Marcy Kennedy is a speculative fiction writer who believes fantasy is more real than you think. Alongside her own writing, Marcy works as a freelance fiction editor and teaches classes on the writing craft. You can find her blogging about writing and about the place where real life meets science fiction, fantasy, and myth at www.marcykennedy.com.

Where to find Marcy Kennedy online

Website: http://www.marcykennedy.com
Twitter: @MarcyKennedy
Facebook: Facebook profile
Blog: http://www.marcykennedy.com/blog

Series

Busy Writer's Guides by
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Each book in the Busy Writer’s Guide series is intended to give you enough theory so that you can understand why things work and why they don’t, but also enough examples to see how that theory looks in practice. In addition, they provide tips and exercises to help you take it to the pages of your own story with an editor’s-eye view. They’re meant as an accelerated master’s class in a topic.
How to Write Fiction: Busy Writer's Guides Set 1
Price: $12.99 USD.
Deep Point of View
Price: $4.99 USD.
Description
Price: $4.99 USD.
Dialogue
Price: $4.99 USD.
Grammar for Fiction Writers
Price: $4.99 USD.
How to Write Faster
Price: $0.99 USD.

Books

Fiction Genres by
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 9,420. Language: English. Published: December 1, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Writing skills, Nonfiction » Publishing » Self-publishing
Genre confuses writers, but everyone who buys, sells, or reads our books wants to know what genre we're writing in. This mini book will demystify genre so we can better understanding what we're writing and who might want to read it.
How to Write Fiction: Busy Writer's Guides Set 2 by
Price: $12.99 USD. Words: 84,630. Language: English. Published: November 5, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Writing skills, Nonfiction » Reference » Publishing & books
Three bestselling writing resources in one set! Experienced fiction editor Marcy Kennedy’s has put three of her popular Busy Writer’s Guides together. Dialogue, point of view, and description are foundational skills you need to master to create vivid fiction that balances your character’s internal life with the external story world in a way that keeps readers turning pages.
How to Write Fiction: Busy Writer's Guides Set 1 by
Series: Busy Writer's Guides. Price: $12.99 USD. Words: 68,120. Language: English. Published: August 1, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Writing skills, Nonfiction » Publishing » Self-publishing
Three popular writing craft books are now available together. When you master showing and telling, deep point of view, and internal dialogue, you'll create vivid fiction that engages your reader emotionally. The books in this set put writing craft techniques into plain language alongside examples, so you can see how it all looks in practice, and combines it with practical exercises.
Description by
Series: Busy Writer's Guides. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 29,780. Language: English. Published: June 1, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Writing skills, Nonfiction » Reference » Publishing & books
Description in fiction shouldn’t be boring for the reader or for the writer. Description: A Busy Writer’s Guide will help you take your writing to the next level by exchanging ho-hum description for description that’s compelling and will bring your story to life, regardless of the genre you write.
Deep Point of View by
Series: Busy Writer's Guides. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 32,520. Language: English. Published: February 10, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Writing skills, Nonfiction » Publishing » Self-publishing
Do you want readers to be so caught up in your book that they forget they’re reading? Then you need deep POV. Deep POV places the reader inside of our characters—hearing their thoughts, feeling their emotions, and living the story through them. In Deep Point of View: A Busy Writer's Guide, you'll learn specific, practical things you can do to take your fiction to the next level with deep POV.
Point of View in Fiction by
Series: Busy Writer's Guides. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 34,360. Language: English. Published: September 30, 2015 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Writing skills, Nonfiction » Reference » Publishing & books
Point of view isn’t merely another writing craft technique. Point of view is the foundation upon which all other elements of the writing craft stand—or fall. In Point of View in Fiction, you'll learn how to choose the right POV for your story, how to avoid POV errors, how to choose the right viewpoint character, and much more.
Internal Dialogue: A Busy Writer's Guide by
Series: Busy Writer's Guides. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 28,200. Language: English. Published: July 2, 2015 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Writing skills, Nonfiction » Publishing » Self-publishing
Internal dialogue is one of the most powerful tools in a fiction writer’s arsenal. It’s also one of the least understood and most often mismanaged elements. In Internal Dialogue: A Busy Writer's Guide, you'll learn the difference between internal dialogue and narration, how to format internal dialogue, how to balance it with external action, how to use it to advance your story, and much more.
Twitter for Authors: A Busy Writer's Guide by
Series: Busy Writer's Guides. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 39,300. Language: English. Published: October 13, 2014 . Categories: Nonfiction » Publishing » Self-publishing, Nonfiction » Reference » Publishing & books
Twitter for Authors is about building a successful Twitter platform that’s sustainable for busy people. It contains helpful advice for both Twitter newbies and long-time Twitter users who want to take their platform to the next level.
Grammar for Fiction Writers by &
Series: Busy Writer's Guides. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 22,670. Language: English. Published: August 22, 2014 . Categories: Nonfiction » Publishing » Self-publishing, Nonfiction » Reference » Writing skills
The world of grammar is huge, but fiction writers don’t need to know all the nuances to write well. In fact, some of the rules you were taught in English class will actually hurt your fiction writing, not help it. Grammar for Fiction Writers won’t teach you things you don’t need to know. It’s all about the grammar that’s relevant to you as you write your novels and short stories.
Showing and Telling in Fiction by
Series: Busy Writer's Guides. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 15,840. Language: English. Published: March 19, 2014 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Writing skills, Nonfiction » Publishing » Self-publishing
Showing and Telling in Fiction will help you clearly understand the difference between showing and telling, provide you with guidelines for when to show AND when to tell, and give you practical editing tools for spotting and fixing telling in your writing.
Frozen: Two Suspenseful Short Stories by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 6,970. Language: English. Published: January 7, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
"A Purple Elephant" and "The Replacements" are award-winning psychological suspense short stories.
Dialogue by
Series: Busy Writer's Guides. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 22,950. Language: English. Published: December 1, 2013 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Publishing & books, Nonfiction » Reference » Writing skills
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In Dialogue: A Busy Writer's Guide, you'll learn techniques and tricks for making your dialogue shine, as well as practical editorial steps you can take to polish your dialogue.
How to Write Faster by
Series: Busy Writer's Guides. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 6,420. Language: English. Published: October 28, 2013 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Writing skills, Nonfiction » Reference » Publishing & books
(4.00 from 1 review)
In How to Write Faster: A Busy Writer’s Guide you’ll learn eight techniques that can help you double your word count in a way that’s sustainable and doesn’t sacrifice the quality of your writing in favor of quantity.
Strong Female Characters by
Series: Busy Writer's Guides. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 4,490. Language: American English. Published: September 16, 2013 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Writing skills, Nonfiction » Reference » Publishing & books
Strong Female Characters helps writers define a strong female character, learn how to keep her likeable, handle characters who don't match gender stereotypes, and analyze how history should influence the way we write female characters. This book is part of the Busy Writer's Guides series.

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