Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction

“Wonder Writing” by Jeff Vandermeer is a vivid and practical guide for anyone who wants to learn how to write fiction, especially in the genres of fantasy, science fiction, or magical realism. The book contains over 300 illustrations, diagrams, and creative exercises that will help you better understand how to create an interesting plot, living characters, coherent fictional worlds, and build the structure of a work. The expanded edition contains new chapters on ecological prose, non-standard text construction, creating comics, and more. Among the special materials are an analysis of the film adaptation of “Destruction” and the ecological module “Terroir of the White Stag”. In the book you will find advice from the stars of modern literature: George R. R. Martin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Neil Gaiman, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karen Joy Fowler, Katarina M. Valente, Neddy Okorafor and others. Wonderbook inspires, explains the complex in simple words and helps you believe in your own ability to tell fascinating stories.