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Successful

Novelist

A Lifetime of Lessons

about Writing and

Publishing

DAVID MORRELL

The

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A version of lesson one, “Why Do You Want To Be a Writer?” was originally published as “The

Ferret Inside Me” in Fiction Writer , October, 1999.

A version of lesson two, “Getting Focused,” was originally published as “‘How Are You This

Morning, David?’ A Better Way to Outline” in Fiction Writer , April, 1999.

A version of lesson seven, “A Matter of Viewpoint,” was originally published as “First Blood ,Third

Person” in Fiction Writer , April, 2000.

A version of lesson eleven, “What Not to Do in Dialogue,” was originally published as “‘He

Said?’ She Asked. Some Thoughts about Dialogue” in Writing Horror , edited by Mort Castle,

published by Writer’s Digest Books, 1997.

A portion of lesson fourteen, “Rambo and the Movies,” was originally published as “The Man

Who Created Rambo” in Playboy , August, 1988.

The “names” section of lesson sixteen, “Questions I’m Often Asked,” was originally published in

Sherrilyn Kenyon’s The Writer’s Digest Character Naming Sourcebook , published by Writer’s Digest

Books, 2005.

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The successful novelist : a lifetime of lessons about writing and publishing / by David Morrell.

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Also by David Morrell

NOVELS

First Blood (1972)

Testament (1975)

Last Reveille (1977)

The Totem (1979)

Blood Oath (1982)

The Brotherhood of the Rose (1984)

The Fraternity of the Stone (1985)

The League of Night and Fog (1987)

The Fifth Profession (1990)

The Covenant of the Flame (1991)

Assumed Identity (1993)

Desperate Measures (1994)

The Totem (Complete and Unaltered) (1994)

Extreme Denial (1996)

Double Image (1998)

Burnt Sienna (2000)

Long Lost (2002)

The Protector (2003)

Creepers (2005)

Scavenger (2007)

NOVELIZATIONS

Rambo (First Blood Part II) (1985)

Rambo III (1988)

SHORT FICTION

The Hundred-Year Christmas (1983)

Black Evening (1999)

Nightscape (2004)

ILLUSTRATED FICTION

Captain America:The End (2007)

NONFICTION

John Barth: An Introduction (1976)

Fireflies: A Father’s Tale of Love and Loss (1988)

American Fiction, American Myth: Essays by Philip Young

edited by David Morrell and Sandra Spanier (2000)

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