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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Scribner Classics)
Stephen King - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, Stephen King's critically lauded, classic bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work."Long live the King" hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen... |
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Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
Roy Peter Clark - Little, Brown and Company; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of America s most influential writing teachers offers a toolbox from which writers of all kinds can draw practical inspiration. Writing is a craft you can learn, says Roy Peter Clark. You need tools, not rules. His book distills decades of experience into tools that will help any writer... |
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How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times
Roy Peter Clark - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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America's most influential writing teacher offers an engaging and practical guide to effective short-form writing.In HOW TO WRITE SHORT, Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed-from... |
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How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
Stanley Fish - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style Adam Haslett, Financial Times A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language. Slate Like a long periodic sentence, this book rumbles along, gathers steam,... |
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One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe
Molly McQuade - Sarabande Books; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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"Readers will find that the words profiled here have a new trace of meaning, warmth, and a time-worn glow."—John Morse, publisher of Merriam-Webster, Inc.In One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe, Molly McQuade asks the question all writers love to answer:... |
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How Not to Write: The Essential Misrules of Grammar
William Safire - Norton & Company
Format: Book
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These fifty humorous misrules of grammar will open the eyes of writers of all levels to fine style.How Not to Write is a wickedly witty book about grammar, usage, and style. William Safire, the author of the New York Times Magazine column "On Language," homes in on the "essential... |
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Ultimate Reading List
Shelley Mosley - Alpha
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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"Great reads for busy people." This is a guide to help busy people find great reads in fiction and non-fiction. Filled with recommendations of popular, entertaining reading, this book covers mystery and suspense, romance, womenas fiction and chick lit, westerns, science fiction,... |
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2015 Writer's Market: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published
Robert Lee Brewer - Writer's Digest Books; ninety-fourth Edition edition
Format: Book
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The most trusted guide to getting published!Want to get published and paid for your writing? Let the 2015 Writer's Market guide you through the process with thousands of publishing opportunities for writers, including listings for book publishers, consumer and trade magazines, contests... |
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Garner's Modern American Usage
Bryan A Garner - Oxford University Press
Format: Book
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Since first appearing in 1998, Garner's Modern American Usage has established itself as the preeminent guide to the effective use of the English language. Brimming with witty, erudite essays on troublesome words and phrases, this book authoritatively shows how to avoid the countless... |
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The Thinker's Thesaurus: Sophisticated Alternatives to Common Words
Peter E. Meltzer - Marion Street Press, Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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Writers looking for more than elementary synonyms found in a standard thesaurus will find exceptional and thoughtful alternatives in this advanced thesaurus. Neither weird nor arcane, each listed synonym is carefully chosen, defined by a "clarifier," and used in an example from... |
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Wretched Writing: A Compendium of Crimes Against the English Language
Kathryn Petras - Perigee Trade
Format: Paperback
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Wretched writing is the lowest of the low; it is a felonious assault on the English language. Exuberantly excessive, it is a sin committed often by amateurs and all-too-frequently by gifted writers having an off day. In short, it’s very bad writing. Truly bad. Appallingly bad. It’s... |
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Writing the Fiction Series: The Complete Guide for Novels and Novellas
Karen S. Wiesner - Writer's Digest Books
Format: Paperback
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The definitive guide to crafting a series!From the Hunger Games Trilogy to the Jack Reacher series, from Harry Potter to Harry Dresden, there's no denying that writers--and readers--have caught series fever. But if you're contemplating writing a series, there are plenty of considerations... |
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The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic
Alberto Manguel
Format: Book
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From Atlantis to Xanadu and beyond, this Baedeker of make-believe takes readers on a tour of more than 1,200 realms invented by storytellers from Homer's day to our own. Here you will find Shangri-La and El Dorado; Utopia and Middle Earth; Wonderland and Freedonia. Here too are Jurassic... |
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