Aileen Armitage, Isaac Asimov, Tracy Chevalier, Charles
Dickens, George MacDonald Fraser, Stephen King, Elmore Leonard, Gabriel García
Márquez, J.B. Priestley, Annie Proulx, Georges
Simenon, Mickey Spillane, Jim Thompson, J.R.R. Tolkein, Anthony Trollope, Mark
Twain, Mary Webb, H.G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, Jacqueline Winspear.
Why? They haven’t written westerns!
Writers should read as well as write. That’s a given.
Naturally, they should be familiar with their preferred
genre. But to expand knowledge of fiction writing, to learn, always learn, it’s
essential to read outside the genre as well.
Almost all published authors can provide insights into the
handling of emotion, conflict and atmosphere; they can show how scenes come
alive, how description draws the reader into the fictional world. Some of their
personal stories can inspire, such as Aileen Armitage’s and Asimov’s, while
others will show writers that the pitfalls faced are not new, they’ve been
encountered and overcome before.
As several reviews stipulate, Write a western in 30 Days – with plenty of bullet points isn’t
simply about writing a western. It’s a very useful guide about writing genre fiction.
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