Reference : Writing Skills

For nearly one hundred years, The Chicago Manual of Style has been the authoritative reference for writers, editors, and publishers. Now in its fifteenth edition, the Manual has been thoroughly revised and updated. The chapter on indexing presented here has been reorganized, streamlined, and revised for the electronic age. It provides examples and recommendations on style and method for professionals, authors, and others who prepare indexes for published works. more...

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By turns gleefully precise and happily contrarian,. this is a highly opinionated guide to better. communication. In Literally, the Best Language. Book Ever, author Paul Yeager attacks with a. linguistic scalpel the illogical expressions and. misappropriated meanings that are so. commonplace and annoying in everyday. conversation. Identifying hundreds of. common language miscues, Yeager provides. an astute look at the world of words and how. we abuse them every day. For the grammar snobs looking for any port in. a storm of subpar syntax, or the self-confessed. rubes seeking a helping hand, this witty guide can. transform even the least literate into the epitome. of eloquence. more...

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Professional editor and author Lyon offers aspiring novelists the guidance and instruction they need to write and edit well-crafted and compelling stories that will stand out from the competition and attract the attention of agents and publishers. more...

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Take On Hollywood and Make It as a Television Writer. From mediabistro.com, the media industry’s most well-respected source for jobs, professional development, and community, this inside-the-business guide gives you the knowledge and tools you need to infiltrate Hollywood and land a job as a TV writer. more...

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A collection of personal writing exercises and commentary from some of today's best novelists, short story writers, and writing teachers, including Jill McCorkle, Amy Bloom, Robert Olen Butler, Steve Almond, Jayne Anne Phillips, Virgil Suárez, Margot Livesay, and more. What's the secret behind the successful and prolific careers of critically acclaimed novelists and short story writers Amy Bloom, Steve Almond, Jayne Anne Phillips, Alison Lurie, and others? Divine assistance? Otherworldly talent? An unsettlingly close relationship with the Muse? While the rest of us are staring at blank sheets of paper, struggling to come up with a first sentence, these writers are busy polishing off story after story and novel after novel. Despite producing work that may seem effortless, all of them have a simple technique for fending off writer's block: the writing exercise. In Now Write! , Sherry Ellis collects the personal writing exercises of today's best writers and lays bare the secret to their success. - In "The Photograph," Jill McCorkle divulges one of her tactics for handling material that takes plots in a million different directions;. - National Book Award-nominee Amy Bloom offers "Water Buddies," an exercise for writers practicing their craft in workshops;. - Steve Almond, author of My Life in Heavy Metal and Candyfreak , provides a way to avoiding purple prose in "The Five-Second Shortcut to Writing in the Lyric Register";. - and eighty-three more of the country's top writers disclose their strategies for creating memorable prose. Complemented by brief commentary from the authors themselves, the exercises in Now Write! are practical and hands-on. By encouraging writers to shamelessly steal proven techniques that have yielded books which have won National Book Awards, Pulitzers, and Guggenheim grants, Now Write! inspires the aspiring writer to write now . more...

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