How long does it take to read Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction?
Jeff VanderMeer, Ryan Burke, Tanya Eby, Adam Verner
Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction by Jeff VanderMeer, Ryan Burke, Tanya Eby, Adam Verner takes about 7 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 2 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2013. 384 pages, about 105,600 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"This all-new definitive guide to writing imaginative fiction takes a completely novel approach and fully exploits the visual nature of fantasy through original drawings, maps, renderings, and exercises to create a spectacularly beautiful and inspiring object. Employing an accessible, example-rich approach, Wonderbook energizes and motivates while also providing practical, nuts-and-bolts information needed to improve as a writer. Aimed at aspiring and intermediate-level writers, Wonderbook includes helpful sidebars and essays from some of the biggest names in fantasy today, such as George R. R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, Catherynne M. Valente, and Karen Joy Fowler, to name a few"--
Subjects: Rhetoric, Study and teaching, Imagery (Psychology), Imagination, Aesthetics, Creative writing (Higher education)
