Writing Skills
epub |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Donald Maass [Maass, Donald]

DIFFERENT WAYS OF RELATING A STORY There are many ways to tell a story, many points of view from which to look. What sort of storyteller are you? Are you ...
( Category: Fiction March 6,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-07-08 | Author:Fogarty, Mignon [Fogarty, Mignon]

ELLIPSES: MY THOUGHTS ARE TRAILING OFF . . . The Omission Ellipsis The most common and formal use of ellipses is to indicate an omission. If you’re quoting someone and ...
( Category: Writing Skills March 6,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Fogarty, Mignon [Fogarty, Mignon]

The snail, which happened to be yellow, was named Squiggly. His best friend, Squiggly, went to the store. Commas and Conditional Sentences Conditional sentences have an if clause such as ...
( Category: Writing Skills March 6,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2014-02-26 | Author:Patricia Highsmith [Highsmith, Patricia]

( Category: Fiction March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-08 | Author:Gaughran, David [Gaughran, David]

What Genre Do You Write In? The big reader sites usually don’t feature certain genres (like erotica), and will often warn that one genre or another is probably going to ...
( Category: Writing Skills March 3,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Lamott, Anne [Lamott, Anne]

Broccoli There’s an old Mel Brooks routine, on the flip side of the "2,000-Year-Old Man," where the psychiatrist tells his patient, "Listen to your broccoli, and your broccoli will tell ...
( Category: Writing Skills March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:James N. Frey [Frey, James N.]

iii. the turning point (often a kind of symbolic death and rebirth). the hero goes on the offensive: The gang rapes Hungry Wolf's granddaughter. He gets his granddaughter to safety, ...
( Category: Fiction February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-08-20 | Author:Venolia, Jan [Venolia, Jan]

In general, use lowercase for the words figure, table, and plate and their abbreviations when they appear in text. Capitalize these terms when they appear in captions. Fig. 5—Wages by ...
( Category: Writing Skills February 15,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-21 | Author:Noah Lukeman [Lukeman, Noah]

and this eventually evolved into the modern-day paragraph break, which is, of course, indicated today by only a line break and indentation. The indentation we use today was originally there ...
( Category: Writing Skills February 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-08-08 | Author:Ross, Marilyn [Ross, Marilyn]

Book Birth Announcement (and a not-so-subtle plea for your unabashed support!) HELP … again to re-create the book sales BUZZ. Once again, I am coming to you for HELP … ...
( Category: Writing Skills February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-28 | Author:Swain, Dwight V. [Swain, Dwight V.]

THE PROTAGONIST The protagonist in a story is most often termed the hero or heroine. But that can be deceiving. Actually, the protagonist is the character who has a goal, ...
( Category: Fiction February 15,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-05-14 | Author:Lauther, Howard [Lauther, Howard]

8. What Is the Character's Background? What is there about the character's background that is important for the reader or viewer to know? What purpose will be served by presenting ...
( Category: Fiction February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-17 | Author:Barry, Sam [Barry, Sam]

THE TRANSITION FROM EDITORIAL TO MARKETING AND PUBLICITY The purpose of the lunch is to get acquainted in person, of course, but it is also something we like to call ...
( Category: Writing Skills February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-14 | Author:Ueland, Brenda [Ueland, Brenda]

Microscopic Truthfulness Yes, when you get down to the True Self and speak from that, there is always a metamorphosis in your writing, a transfiguration. Now I will suggest another ...
( Category: Writing Skills February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-17 | Author:Plotnik, Arthur [Plotnik, Arthur]

I went to Carthage, where I found myself in the midst of a hissing cauldron of lust. I had not yet fallen in love, but I was in love with ...
( Category: Fiction February 15,2015 )