Writing, Research & Publishing Guides
epub |eng | 2009-04-20 | Author:Simon Armitage

Lucy, a fifteen-foot cayman, goes past like a nuclear sub. They say it's safe to take a dip, but tell that to the dog that Lucy dragged from the riverbank ...
( Category: Travel October 1,2022 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-15 | Author:Peter Burden

CHAPTER SIX A FEIKH OF ARABY With his invention of the Fake Shiekh, Mazher Mahmood changed the course of his life irreversibly: the role elevated him from being just another ...
( Category: Journalism October 1,2022 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-02 | Author:Therese Walsh [Walsh, Therese]

How to Get in Your Own Way, Method 17: Believe You’re Entitled to Your Readers’ Time Do you know what a hassle it is to critique a manuscript? By definition, ...
( Category: Writing Skills October 1,2022 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-15 | Author:Adair Lara [Lara, Adair]

Use two hyphens to indicate a dash–like that. Don’t capitalize the names of the seasons. And don’t capitalize directions (north, south, east, west) unless they mean regions. YES: That summer, ...
( Category: Nonfiction October 1,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Darin Jewell

CHAPTER 10 SOCIAL NETWORKING Networking is interacting with others for mutual benefit, which is integral to the sales of your book and your success as a writer. For anyone who ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides October 1,2022 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-17 | Author:Bret Lott [Lott, Bret]

And though he is here writing of fiction, it has been my own discovery as a writer of both fiction and creative nonfiction that the same holds true for both. ...
( Category: Authorship September 30,2022 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-06 | Author:James Daley

RAYMOND CHANDLER (1888–1959) “THE SIMPLE ART OF MURDER” Born in Chicago in 1888, Raymond Chandler moved with his mother to Great Britain in 1895 shortly after his parents’ divorce. It ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 30,2022 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Amy Dunkleberger [Dunkleberger, Amy]

Creating 3-D Characters Here are a few specific elements to consider when creating your unforgettable characters: Looks. Looks can be deceiving … or not. Depending on how characters are being ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 30,2022 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Laura Lee McKay [McKay, Laura Lee]

Showing Versus Telling An advantage of using the quest plot device discussed in Step 2 is that you can “show” rather than “tell” when it comes to describing your characters. ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 30,2022 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Jean Saunders

6 THE CHAIN REACTION Before you break rules, you had better learn them Noel Coward Writing a successful novel where everything reads so smoothly that it seems as if the ...
( Category: Editing September 29,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alison Sherlock [Sherlock, Alison]

31 Monday morning dawned sunny and warm once more. So Lucy slipped on her knee-length shorts and T-shirt, deciding that she might as well dress casually for work as everyone ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction September 28,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nicholas Corder

Bizarre spelling – English knows how to confuse Pronouncing Löwenbräu the German way might look hard, but once you’ve cracked the relationship between German spelling and pronunciation, it makes sense. ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 28,2022 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:James Scott Bell [Scott Bell, James]

The Use and Abuse of Prologues One of the most popular TV shows of the late 1950s to early 1960s was Peter Gunn. The series, starring Craig Stevens as a ...
( Category: Editing September 28,2022 )