Writer's Digest Guide to Good Writing,9781582971384

Writer's Digest Guide to Good Writing

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ISBN13: 9781582971384
ISBN10: 1582971382
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-08-01
Publisher(s): Writers Digest Books
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Summary

75 years of solid writing instruction, advice and inspiration fill the pages of this book, culled from Writer's Digest articles. A goldmine of information from experts in the field.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(2)
1920s 3(30)
Why I Rejected Ten Thousand Manuscripts
4(5)
W. Adolphe Roberts
How to Plot a Story When You See It
9(4)
Thomas H. Uzzell
The Author and His Style
13(3)
Louis Dodge
Poetry and Verse: A Distinction
16(9)
Thomas Kennedy
The ``Had Horrors''
25(6)
Laurence D'Orsay
Three Secrets of Successful Fiction Writing
31(2)
J. Everet Courtney
1930s 33(33)
How to Write Mystery Stories
34(4)
S.S. Van Dine
Write With Simplicity
38(3)
Albert Payson Terhune
The Working Philosophy of a Playwright
41(3)
Marc Connelly
Bernice Breen
Creating ``Lovable'' Characters
44(2)
James Hilton
Within Quotes
46(9)
Erle Stanley Gardner
Accent on the Unusual
55(5)
Irving Wallace
Down With Modesty
60(6)
Phyllis A. Whitney
1940s 66(38)
Setting the Pace
67(7)
Arthur Gordon
Plots the Triple-O Way
74(5)
John Nanovic
What Happened?
79(5)
Pauline Bloom
The Ten Deadly Sins
84(6)
David X. Manners
Write It Simply
90(7)
Eugene M. Fisher
How to Become a Character
97(7)
Louis L'Amour
1950s 104(36)
Only One ``Must''
105(4)
Mildred I. Reid
1 Brain + 1 Brain + 1 Brain = Viewpoint
109(6)
Morry Hull
How to Plot a Novel
115(8)
Patricia McGerr
How to Break Up a Conversation
123(5)
Allis McKay
Research in Reverse
128(6)
Richard Deming
An Article Is Like a Sideshow
134(6)
Helen Doss
How I Write 140(29)
Seventy-Five Years of Writing Advice selected by the Editors of Writer's Digest
141(28)
1960s 169(37)
What Way I Write!
170(3)
Allen Ginsberg
The Short Story From a Purely Impersonal View
173(6)
Hallie Burnett
The Importance of Plot in the Novel
179(2)
Taylor Caldwell
Organizing Your Material
181(10)
Allan W. Eckert
Themes in the Traditional Novel
191(7)
Robert C. Meredith
John D. Fitzgerald
Keep It Brief and Blend It In
198(8)
Don James
1970s 206(50)
Eight Types of How-to Articles and How to Write Them
207(8)
Hugh C. Sherwood
Sensory Detail in Your Writing
215(5)
Carl E. Johnson
Ten Rules for Suspense Fiction
220(4)
Brian Garfield
The Horror Market Writer and the Ten Bears
224(5)
Stephen King
Take Five: The Most Common Mistakes Among Beginning Freelancers
229(5)
M.L. Stein
Writing Science Fiction: Think Like an Alien, Write Like an Angel
234(9)
Gardner Dozois
Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
243(8)
Lawrence Block
The Poetry of Concrete
251(5)
Judson Jerome
1980s 256(52)
To Make a Short Story Long...
257(9)
Orson Scott Card
The Seven Beacons of Excellent Writing
266(10)
Gary Provost
Your Future as a Writer
276(7)
Isaac Asimov
How to Write Blockbuster Novels
283(8)
Evan Marshall
Writing About Science
291(9)
Ben Bova
Eight Ingredients of Powerful Nonfiction
300(8)
Linton Weeks
1990s 308(27)
Romantic Encounters
309(6)
Jude Deveraux
The Big Finish
315(8)
Don McKinney
Truth and the Writer (Young and Old)
323(12)
Harlan Ellison
Index 335

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