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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 )
Write Great Fiction--Dialogue by Gloria Kempton
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-06-11 | Author:Gloria Kempton

8 [ BRAKES OR ACCELERATOR — DIALOGUE AS A MEANS OF PACING ] “Let's see,” the small-town, slow-talking cop said as he stood outside my window. It doesn't matter if ...
( Category: Fiction June 12,2015 )
Killbox (2010) by Aguirre Ann
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Aguirre, Ann [Ann, Aguirre,]

CHAPTER 28 March glares at us, pacing. As the responsible parties, Hit, Dina, and I have been formally reprimanded. Let me just say--I don't much like having him in a ...
( Category: Space Fleet June 12,2015 )
The River at the Centre of the World by Simon Winchester
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-11-27 | Author:Simon Winchester

Today the ferment and the jostle is much the same, though cars crowd among the rickshaws and there are sleek and brilliantined men with shiny suits, cellular phones clamped to ...
( Category: Travel 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 )
Notes from the Hard Shoulder by James May
epub |eng | | Author:James May [James May]

THE RANGE ROVER OF OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTY Today, from the window of my office, I have an uninterrupted view of my 1992 Range Rover Vogue SE. I think it may ...
( Category: Travel 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 )
Fugitives and Refugees by Chuck Palahniuk
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Chuck Palahniuk

Getting Off: How to Knock Off a Piece in Portland “THE JIG’S UP—people are having sex in Portland,” says Teresa Dulce. An advocate for Portland’s sex workers and the publisher ...
( Category: Portland 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 )
The Lights of Pointe-Noire by Alain Mabanckou
epub |eng | | Author:Alain Mabanckou

Here’s Grand Poupy now. We embrace. Behind him I see a woman whose face is vaguely familiar. I hold out my hand to her tentatively, and my mother’s cousin looks ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction June 11,2015 )

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