{"product_id":"a-fiction-writer-s-guide-to-peace-1","title":"Fiction Writer’s Guide to Peace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSuperhero violence and graphic action sequences are prevalent on the screen and on the page, but this book takes an alternative route with practical guidance, frameworks, and tools for incorporating the principles of peacebuilding and nonviolence into compelling fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e By mapping a path less travelled but just as vital in divisive times, Gabriel Ertsgaard shows writers how they can enact nonviolent heroism in their characters, model civil resistance in their stories, and create worlds around a mythos that champions redemptive nonviolence. With concepts applicable to writing for fiction, drama, the screen, and narrative poetry, \u003ci\u003eA Fiction Writer's Guide to Peace\u003c\/i\u003e deconstructs the necessity for violence in popular works, explores key concepts in peace studies, and helps writers establish their own peace poetics. Focused around the narrative craft techniques of character arcs, campaigns, duels, and worldbuilding, the book features numerous creative writing prompts and examples from key works. These include films such as \u003ci\u003eTrading Places\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSelma\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLage Raho Munna Bai,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFrozen\u003c\/i\u003e and literature ranging from Shakespeare's plays to Dickens' \u003ci\u003eA Christmas Carol\u003c\/i\u003e to Julia Quinn's Bridgerton novels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A timely and important expansion to any writer's toolkit, \u003ci\u003eA Fiction Writer's Guide to Peace\u003c\/i\u003e allows storytellers to understand the complex dynamics of, and the damage caused by, violent perspectives and actions, giving them a way into considering nonviolence as powerful and preferable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54410266050904,"sku":"9781350473959","price":27.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350473959_534c37cf-9c74-4cd1-9450-c7d3b4bc42e3.jpg?v=1770912942","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/a-fiction-writer-s-guide-to-peace-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}