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Grammar Sucks: What to Do to Make Your Writing Much More Better by Joanne Kimes & Gary Robert Muschla
epub |eng | 2007-04-29 | Author:Joanne Kimes & Gary Robert Muschla [Kimes, Joanne & Muschla, Gary Robert]

S LV PA The hikers appeared exhausted. S LV PA PA The puppy is adorable and lovable. You’re doing it again, aren’t you? You’re smacking your- self in the forehead? ...
( Category: Writing Skills June 18,2015 )
Writing Active Hooks Book 1: Action, Emotion, Surprise and More by Mary Buckham
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-03 | Author:Mary Buckham [Buckham, Mary]

FIRST DRAFT (using too many hooks): With a hard thud and the stench of blood and entrails scattered over the yard I watched, not even able to scream, as a ...
( Category: Writing Skills June 17,2015 )
Not Quite What I Was Planning by Larry Smith
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-04-01 | Author:Larry Smith [Rachel Fershleiser; Larry Smith]

—Gretchen Vitamvas Overjoyed I’m not like my sister. —Elizabeth DeLamater Little German girl, big American world. —Lisa Turner Hope my obituary spells “debonair” correctly. —Gregg Easterbrook Just in: boyfriend’s gay. ...
( Category: Writing Skills June 13,2015 )
The Great Typo Hunt by Jeff Deck
epub |eng | 2010-06-12 | Author:Jeff Deck [Deck, Jeff]

Then we stopped. LONLEY? asked the chalkboard. YOU GOT A FRIEND IN BOOZE. Josh was the one who’d pointed out the sign. We peered at the specimen, and I felt ...
( Category: Travel June 13,2015 )
How Not to Write a Novel by Howard Mittelmark
epub |eng | 2011-02-21 | Author:Howard Mittelmark [Mittelmark, Howard]

* * * “Ironically,” We Said, Ironically Ironically, the one day we had set aside to write about irony was the day we had to do our ironing before our ...
( Category: Writing Skills June 12,2015 )
The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself by Susan Bell
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-07-09 | Author:Susan Bell [Bell, Susan]

Avoid rhetoric that sounds lofty and says little. Eliminate verbal filler. iii. Avoid adverbs and adjectives. As you edit, ask yourself how this or that sentence reads without them. 1v. ...
( Category: Editing June 12,2015 )
Characters and Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card
epub |eng | 2011-03-18 | Author:Orson Scott Card [Card, Orson Scott]

VOICES WHO IS TELLING YOUR STORY? You are, of course. You choose what story to tell, which incidents matter, which scenes to show, which events to tell about. It is ...
( Category: Writing Skills June 12,2015 )
Beginnings, Middles and Ends by Nancy Kress
epub |eng | 1999-03-15 | Author:Nancy Kress [Kress, Nancy]

CHAPTER 7 SATISFYING ENDINGS: DELIVERING ON THE PROMISE YOU'VE WRITTEN THE MIDDLE. Starting with the characters, conflict, and (sometimes) symbols you introduced so carefully in your opening, you went on ...
( Category: Writing Skills June 12,2015 )
Writing Fiction (2nd Edition) by Janet Burroway
epub |eng | 2011-03-12 | Author:Janet Burroway [Burroway, Janet]

22.3 Better, since we are dealing with a verbal medium, these questions might be translated: Who speaks? To whom? In what form? At what distance from the action? With what ...
( Category: Fiction June 12,2015 )
Creating Unforgettable Characters by Linda Seger
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-23 | Author:Linda Seger [Seger, Linda]

SUPPORTING CHARACTERS ADD COLOR AND TEXTURE The kind of character you create to fulfill a function in a story is not an arbitrary decision. Once you know who you need, ...
( Category: Playwriting June 12,2015 )
Make That Scene by William Noble
epub |eng | 2011-04-03 | Author:William Noble [Noble, William]

Prelude A sense of place. We discussed it in connection with setting, and we know it as our experiences and memories coming together to form a foundation for who we ...
( Category: Writing Skills June 12,2015 )
How To Do Biography. A Primer by Nigel Hamilton
epub |eng | 2008-05-10 | Author:Nigel Hamilton [Nigel Hamilton]

TEN Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. ...
( Category: Writing Skills June 12,2015 )
Writing Mysteries by Sue Grafton
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-04-22 | Author:Sue Grafton

twenty-one CLUES, RED HERRINGS, AND OTHER PLOT DEVICES P.M. Carlson “But I want you to be the victim. And the person who kills you can be Deirdre Henderson. The repressed ...
( Category: Mystery June 12,2015 )
How to Be a Writer by Barbara Baig
epub |eng | 2010-06-08 | Author:Barbara Baig

CHAPTER 10 The Sherlock Holmes School of Writing You see but you do not observe. — SHERLOCK HOLMES TO DR. WATSON, A Scandal in Bohemia Sherlock Holmes, the famous fictional ...
( Category: Fiction June 9,2015 )
Guide to Writing Your First Novel by Hallie Ephron
epub |eng | 2011-06-08 | Author:Hallie Ephron

If you guessed these are friends or sisters, you're right — they're sisters in law. There's a familiarity between them, a raw honesty and humor that comes from intimate friendship. ...
( Category: Writing Skills June 9,2015 )

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