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50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

A special 10th anniversary edition of Roy Peter Clark's bestselling guide to writing, featuring five bonus tools.

Ten years ago, Roy Peter Clark, America's most influential writing teacher, whittled down almost thirty years of experience in journalism, writing, and teaching into a series of fifty short essays on different aspects of writing. In the past decade, Writing Tools has become a classic guidebook for novices and experts alike and remains one of the best loved books on writing available.

Organized into four sections, "Nuts and Bolts," "Special Effects," "Blueprints for Stories," and "Useful Habits," Writing Tools is infused with more than 200 examples from journalism and literature. This new edition includes five brand new, never-before-shared tools.

Accessible, entertaining, inspiring, and above all, useful for every type of writer, from high school student to novelist, Writing Tools is essential reading.

Writing Tools

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Oklahoma

The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them

Each year thousands of fiction writers, from beginners to bestselling author, benefit from Sol Stein's sold-out workshops, featured appearances at writers' conferences, software for writers, on-line columns, and his popular first book for writers, Stein on Writing. Stein practices what he teaches: He is the author of nine novels, including the million-copy bestseller The Magician, as well as editor of such major writers as James Baldwin, Jack Higgins, Elia Kazan, Budd Schulberg, W. H. Auden, and Jacques Barzun, and the teacher and editor of several current bestselling authors. What sets Stein apart is his practical approach. He provides specific techniques that speed writers to successful publication.

How to Grow a Novel is not just a book, but an invaluable workshop in print. It includes details and examples from Stein's editorial work with a #1 bestselling novelist as well as talented newcomers. Stein takes the reader backstage in the development of memorable characters and fascinating plots. The chapter on dialogue overflows with solutions for short-story writers, novelists, screenwriters, and playwrights. Stein shows what readers are looking for-- and what they avoid-- in the experience of reading fiction. The book offers guidelines-- and warnings-- of special value for nonfiction writers who want to move into fiction. Stein points to the little, often overlooked things that damage the writer's authority without the writer knowing it. And this book, like no other writing book, takes the reader behind the scenes of the publishing business as it affects writers of every level of experience, revealing the hard truths that are kept behind shut doors.

How to Grow a Novel

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Illinois

Notes on Craft for Young Writers

This classic guide, from the renowned novelist and professor, has helped transform generations of aspiring writers into masterful writers--and will continue to do so for many years to come.  
 
John Gardner was almost as famous as a teacher of creative writing as he was for his own works. In this practical, instructive handbook, based on the courses and seminars that he gave, he explains, simply and cogently, the principles and techniques of good writing. Gardner's lessons, exemplified with detailed excerpts from classic works of literature, sweep across a complete range of topics--from the nature of aesthetics to the shape of a refined sentence. Written with passion, precision, and a deep respect for the art of writing, Gardner's book serves by turns as a critic, mentor, and friend. Anyone who has ever thought of taking the step from reader to writer should begin here.

The Art of Fiction

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Take your fiction to the next level! Maybe you're a first-time novelist looking for practical guidance. Maybe you've already been published, but your latest effort is stuck in mid-list limbo. Whatever the case may be, author and literary agent Donald Maass can show you how to take your prose to the next level and write a breakout novel - one that rises out of obscurity and hits the best-seller lists. Maass details the elements that all breakout novels share - regardless of genre - then shows you writing techniques that can make your own books stand out and succeed in a crowded marketplace. You'll learn to: • establish a powerful and sweeping sense of time and place • weave subplots into the main action for a complex, engrossing story • create larger-than-life characters that step right off the page • explore universal themes that will interest a broad audience of readers • sustain a high degree of narrative tension from start to finish • develop an inspired premise that sets your novel apart from the competition Then, using examples from the recent works of several best-selling authors - including novelist Anne Perry - Maass illustrates methods for upping the ante in every aspect of your novel writing. You'll capture the eye of an agent, generate publisher interest and lay the foundation for a promising career.

Writing the Breakout Novel

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Book is in like new condition, no flaws except a little bump on the lower right of the front cover ( see photo ).

"This unique and concise compendium presents the most confused and misused words in the language today - words misused by careless speakers and writers everywhere. It defines, discerns, and distinguishes the finer points of sense and meaning."

Minnesota

The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate

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Maryland

50 Essential Strategies for Everh Writer

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Georgia

A classic practical guide and manual which tells the aspiring writer everything about writing a publishable first novel.

Writing a Novel

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Writing advice tends to be full of 'rules' and 'tips' which are either too broad to be helpful or outright wrong. Aimed at specific, applicable, and practical discussions, from writing fight scenes to first-person narration to hard and soft worldbuilding, Volume IIis a 'must have'.

On Writing

    Fight Scenes
    Handling Pacing
    Mentor Characters
    Positive Arcs and Redemption Arcs
    Power Escalation in a Magic System
    Flashbacks and Backstory
    Civil Wars
    First-person Narration
    Dark Lords


On Worldbuilding

    Fantasy and Alien Races
    World Histories
    Monarchies
    Place Names
    Class, Wealth, and Power
    How Class Systems are Maintained
    How Class Systems Collapse
    Cities and Towns
    Hard versus Soft Worldbuilding #paperback #fictionwriting #writers #writingtips #writingtools #adjectives #write #writing

Roy Peter Clark

Writing Tools

Sol Stein

How to Grow a Novel

John Gardner; John Gardner

The Art of Fiction

Donald Maass

Writing the Breakout Novel

Eugene Ehrlich

The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate

Roy Peter Clark

Writing Tools

J. Braine

Writing a Novel

Timothy Hickson

On Writing and Worldbuilding