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In this landmark collection, Patricia Hampl and Elaine Tyler May have gathered fourteen original essays from award-winning memoirists and historians. They are all storytellers, wrestling with a fascinating gray area where memory intersects with history and where the necessities of narrative collide with mundane facts. and whether the record emerges from archival sources or from personal memory, these writers show how to make the leap to telling a...
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You've written a novel. Now what?
The Tidy Guide to Self-Editing Your Novel brings you a no-nonsense approach to revise and polish your book. In this guide, you'll learn how to...Self-edit your novel with a calm, motivated mindsetPolish your story so that it shines above the competitionThe Tidy Guide to Self-Editing Your Novel is a quick 30-minute read that's jam-packed with information essential for writers at any stage in their careers.
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This is a classic reference for writers, editors, and anyone else who needs to work out when to use "which" or "that," when a town can be called a city, and what to do with a gerund. This third edition is being thoroughly updated to increase the Australian content, including increasing coverage of Aboriginal terms, and to reflect the digital age. Written in the fine English tradition of opinionated style advice, this is a worthy successor to Fowler....
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Organized into ten sections with each devoted to a poetic concept, The Practicing Poet begins with "Discovering New Material," "Finding the Best Words," "Making Music," "Working with Sentences and Line Breaks," "Crafting Surprise," and "Achieving Tone." The concepts become progressively more sophisticated, moving on to "Dealing with Feelings," "Transforming Your Poems," and "Rethinking and Revising." The final section, "Publishing Your Book," covers...
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Making a book cover from scratch is not as hard as you think it is. This book will take your fears away and have you making a book cover the same day.
This book was written in a manner to avoid a lot of excess words and it will take you straight to the points of what you need to know to get a quality book cover made EASILY. This is NOT one of those books where it takes ten pages, to fill up space, to tell you what could be said on one page or less....
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Il existe de nombreux dictionnaires, encyclopédies, recueils de citations et de proverbes. La masse de ces derniers atteint quelques dizaines de milliers; la planète en est tapissée. Au-delà de leur Intérêt
documentaire, historique, littéraire ou patrimonial, ils comportent des inconvénients. Et non des moindres est de trop embrasser... Une sélection s'impose donc, pour la commodité de leur usage pratique.
Ce livre est destiné aux amateurs...
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It's the evening before your research paper is due, and you're staring at a big, empty white word document waiting to be filled on your computer screen. The clock is ticking. And you're panicking. Sound familiar? It's a scenario that all college students face, and with it comes stress, dread, pessimism and, of course, writer's block. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, four out of five students are not proficient writers. But...
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Penned by a former writer who had to teach himself the rules of English grammar, A Few Words About Words offers an easy and accessible approach to understanding and using the English language.
In a world dominated by countless print media and social media outlets, written communication is king. Writing "your" when you mean "you're" and "there" when you mean "they're" can make the difference between getting or not getting new business. A missing comma...
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50,000+ words in 30 days-impossible, right?
Or if it is possible, those words must be total crap-right?
And even if there is some semblance of writing talent in the draft, writing that fast means the plot and characters must make no sense... right?
No. Nope. Wrong!
Yes, you can write 50,000 good words on your novel in as little as a month, as long as you prepare yourself.
After helping thousands of authors develop the skills to hit huge word...
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¡Bienvenido a La divina lengua! Estás a punto de comenzar un viaje hacia las zonas más recónditas de tu propia lengua. Desde el Paraíso de la gramática perfecta y las normas de escritura, hasta el Infierno del lenguaje inclusivo y el lunfardo. En el medio, el Purgatorio, el espacio oportuno para sanar nuestras bocas sucias y elegir si ascender a Dios o tirarse de lleno al fuego. Con ingenio y humor, recorreremos las múltiples tensiones de la...
251) Reader Magnets
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“Reader Magnets” are what bring readers to YOU. They're an irresistible force that draws readers into your author platform-the promise of get into great value content and building a valuable connection. That's what it's all about, after all, making meaningful relationships with your audience and having a direct line to your readers.
I started using Reader Magnets a little over six months ago. I didn't even have a term for it back then. Since...
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The truth about English is that it can get pretty boring. Dangling modifiers, gerunds, punctuation marks-it's enough to make you want to drop out of high school. Swearing and sex on the other hand, well, these time-honored pastimes warm the cockles of our hearts. Now, The Elements of F*cking Style drags English grammar out of the ivory tower and into the gutter, injecting a dull subject with a much-needed dose of color.
This book addresses everything...
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Writer and editorial consultant Ron Hogan helps readers develop an ongoing writing practice as an end in and of itself, not a means to publication.
Many people pick up the guitar without eyeing a career as a professional musician, or start painting without caring if they get a gallery. But, with writing the assumption seems to be that the goal must be to get published. Why? Why is it acceptable to attain technical proficiency at "Stairway to Heaven"...
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Freelance writing can be fun, rewarding and even lucrative. Yes. There is money to be made from freelance writing. Longtime journalist, author and freelance writer Mike Reuther reveals some of the ways to get started as a successful freelancer. Learn about writing for publications and businesses. Reuther shares some of his experiences and provides insights into this exciting world. A helpful book for anyone considering doing freelance writing as a...
255) Blueprint for a Book
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How to write a novel in the most efficient way by tackling the hardest part before you start to write, from top book coach Jennie Nash.
Whether you're writing your first novel or your tenth, there is a temptation to pin it to the page before it disappears. It's such a brilliant idea and you can see the whole thing shimmering in your mind, just out of reach. Maybe you do some work on character development and plotting, but you're a racehorse at the...
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Do you dream of writing a novel, but not sure where to start? Have you been working on a book for ages but feel stuck? Despite all your best efforts, do you feel overwhelmed?
The Tidy Guide to Writing a Novel brings you a no-nonsense approach to write your book right the first time. In this guide, you'll learn how to: Plan and organize your story ideas by breaking them out into easy, digestible bites. Use the simple yet mighty Little Ups approach...
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Structure underlies every story, but without a strong foundation, even well-written sentences can fail to result in a marketable manuscript. The Foundation of Plot defines the components of a story arc, details the differences between plot and story, and covers common errors writers make. It also includes exercises which apply concepts to works in progress or new projects.
Drawing on the author's decades of storytelling and teaching experience, this...
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“Editing Canadian English” is a style guide, reference manual, judgment-call coach, and much more. Written by expert editors from across the country, it presents a flexible but systematic approach to creating workable Canadian styles.
This comprehensive update includes valuable information on:
• Canadianization
• inclusivity
• spelling
• compounds and hyphens
• capitalization
• abbreviations
• punctuation
• measurements
• citation
•...
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The goal of book marketing is to stop needing to do it
Learn how to:
• Scope your book into the world's best solution for a certain type of reader
• Test, improve, & iterate your ToC without needing to rewrite anything
• Design a engaging reader experience that makes your book a delight to read
• Discover the hidden analytics of boredom & confusion to identify book-killing problems & make the most of beta readers
• Treat marketing as a temporary...
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Découvrez comment venir à bout du syndrome de la page blanche (pour de bon). Vous en avez assez qu'on vous dise « continuez à écrire et tout rentrera dans l'ordre »? Vous cherchez un moyen d'éliminer pour de bon le blocage qui vous empêche de terminer ce gros projet sur lequel vous travaillez depuis des années? Vous voulez des trucs honnêtes, ultra simples et super pratiques qui vous aideront à cesser de douter de vous-même et à devenir...
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