★Practical Techniques: Systematically impart the core skills for crafting compelling plots, creating realistic dialogues, and developing multi-dimensional characters.
★Master's Insights: The essence of a best-selling author's twenty years of writing experience, revealing the deep secrets of narrative art.
★Writer's Bible: Empowering literature enthusiasts to break through creative bottlenecks and create unforgettable literary classics.

Are you a meticulous planner who follows a blueprint or a spontaneous creator who lets your intuition guide you? Do you struggle with stiff dialogue and a disorganized structure? Can your characters come alive on the page? Can you consistently build suspense and set the right tone? And how do you skillfully wrap up the plot?

Vanessa Montfort, the author of bestsellers such as "The Woman Who Brought Flowers" and "The Nameless Woman," offers this practical guide for writers eager to enhance their fiction-writing skills. With the dual expertise of a narrative master and a playwright, she shares her unique techniques for crafting solid plots, vivid dialogue, and believable characters.

"I will follow in the footsteps of the literary giants who led me to become a writer and offer my professional insights from two decades of writing and publishing," Montfort concludes. This guide, which combines classic wisdom with personal experience, will be your key to the literary Hall of Fame. Whether you aspire to the depth of thought of Milan Kundera，the stream-of-consciousness style of Virginia Woolf， or the narrative magic of Stephen King， this book is an indispensable companion for your creative journey.

Vanessa Montfort
She has published the novels El ingrediente secreto (The Secret Ingredient) (XI Ateneo Joven de Sevilla Award, 2006); Mitología de Nueva York (Mythology of New York) (XI Ateneo de Sevilla Award, 2010); La leyenda de la isla sin voz (The Legend of the Island Without a Voice) (City of Zaragoza International Award for Historical Novels. Plaza y Janés, 2014), and Mujeres que compran flores (Plaza y Janés, 2016), with 29 editions in Spain and whose rights have been sold to more than 15 countries; El sueño de la crisálida (Plaza y Janés, 2019) and La mujer sin nombre (Plaza y Janés, 2020), in which she revives the writer María Lejárraga. This novel, like the play that preceded it, Firmado Lejárraga, had a huge impact on critics, culminating in her participation in the TVE documentary María Lejárraga: a las mujeres de España (María Lejárraga: To the Women of Spain) directed by Laura Hojman, nominated for the Goya Awards, 2022. Her plays have been translated into a dozen languages. Highlights include Flashback, La cortesía de los ciegos, and Tierra de tiza, for the Royal Court Theatre in London; the free adaptation of La Regenta (Teatros del Canal, 2012); El galgo (Teatro Anfitrione in Rome); and Sirena negra, adapted for film by Elio Quiroga (Sitges Festival, 2015); El hogar del monstruo (CDN, 2016, also as director), and Firmado Lejárraga (CDN, 2019, finalist for the 2020 Max Awards for Best Playwright). In 2022, she will premiere three new texts: El síndrome del copiloto (author and director, Teatros del Canal, Madrid), Saúl, a medium-length radio play for the BBC as part of the series One five seven years (directed by Nicolas Jackson), finalist for the BBC awards, and La Toffana (Teatro La Abadía Madrid, 2022). As a producer, she founded BEMYBABY FILMS in 2016 alongside director Miguel Ángel Lamata, with whom she produced the feature film Nuestros Amantes (Our Lovers, 2016) and the documentary Heroes, Silencio y Rock & Roll (Heroes, Silence and Rock & Roll, premiered on Netflix, nominated for a Goya Award for Best Documentary).