A Fiction Writer?s Guide to Peace
Crafting Nonviolent Heroism
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 26 June 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350473959
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 216x138x18 mm
- Weight 240 g
- Language English 700
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Long description:
Superhero 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. 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, A Fiction Writer's Guide to Peace 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 Trading Places, Selma, Lage Raho Munna Bai, and Frozen and literature ranging from Shakespeare's plays to Dickens' A Christmas Carol to Julia Quinn's Bridgerton novels.
A timely and important expansion to any writer's toolkit, A Fiction Writer's Guide to Peace 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.
Table of Contents:
Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Is There Really an Imbalance?
Is Nonviolent Action Effective?
Are Stories of Nonviolent Heroism Compelling?
What This Book Is
Chapter 2: From Peace Studies to Peace Poetics
Peace Education
Civil Resistance
Case Study: "For the Snake of Power"
Conflict Transformation
Case Study: "Big Rural"
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Character Arcs
Egri's dialectical approach
Writing exercise
