The Story Grid - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Story Grid write by Shawn Coyne. This book was released on 2015-05-02. The Story Grid available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. WHAT IS THE STORY GRID? The Story Grid is a tool developed by editor Shawn Coyne to analyze stories and provide helpful editorial comments. It's like a CT Scan that takes a photo of the global story and tells the editor or writer what is working, what is not, and what must be done to make what works better and fix what's not. The Story Grid breaks down the component parts of stories to identify the problems. And finding the problems in a story is almost as difficult as the writing of the story itself (maybe even more difficult). The Story Grid is a tool with many applications: 1. It will tell a writer if a Story ?works? or ?doesn't work. 2. It pinpoints story problems but does not emotionally abuse the writer, revealing exactly where a Story (not the person creating the Story'the Story) has failed. 3. It will tell the writer the specific work necessary to fix that Story's problems. 4. It is a tool to re-envision and resuscitate a seemingly irredeemable pile of paper stuck in an attic drawer. 5. It is a tool that can inspire an original creation.
How to Write a Novel
How to Write a Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Write a Novel write by Nathan Bransford. This book was released on 2019-10-15. How to Write a Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Author and former literary agent Nathan Bransford shares his secrets for creating killer plots, fleshing out your first ideas, crafting compelling characters, and staying sane in the process. Read the guide that New York Times bestselling author Ransom Riggs called "The best how-to-write-a-novel book I've read."
Editor-Proof Your Writing
Editor-Proof Your Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Editor-Proof Your Writing write by Don McNair. This book was released on 2013-04-01. Editor-Proof Your Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Veteran editor Don McNair lays out an easy-to-follow and systematic method for clearing up foggy writing--writing that's full of extra, misused, and overused words--in this guide to producing sparkling copy that attracts readers, agents, editors, and sales. McNair explains the common mistakes made by most writers and shows how eliminating unnecessary words strengthens action, shorten sentences, and makes writing crackle with life. Containing 21 simple, straightforward principles, ""Editor-Proof Your Writing"" teaches how to edit weak verb forms, strip away author intrusions, ban redundancies, eliminate foggy phrases, correct passive-voice sentences, slash misused and overused words, and fix other writing mistakes. A superb addition to any writer's toolkit, this book will not only make writing clearer and more grammatical, it will also make it more concise, entertaining, and appealing to publishers.
How to Be Your Own Best Editor
How to Be Your Own Best Editor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Be Your Own Best Editor write by BARRY. TARSHIS. This book was released on 2021-06-24. How to Be Your Own Best Editor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In contrast to most how-to-writing books, How to be Your Own Best Editor focuses on one of the most imposing challenges you need to confront as a writer: editing your own work. With insight, precision, and wit, author Barry Tarshis introduces you to concepts and easy-to-use mental tools that will enable do more than simply spot typos or uncover grammar errors when your reviewing something you've just written. What you'll learn how to do instead once you're read this book is to recognize when your writing, quite apart from its content, isn't delivering that content as clearly, concisely, or as engaging as you would like it to be-and, more important, what to do to make your writing more readable. "How to Be Your Own Best Editor" is the most valuable book of its kind I have read since Strunk and White's The Elements of Style-and is a good deal more fun to read. I will refer to again and again. Eric Burns, former broadcast journalist, whose 16 published works include Broadcast Blues, Joy of Books, the Spirits of America, and Infamous Scribblers
The Subversive Copy Editor
The Subversive Copy Editor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Subversive Copy Editor write by Carol Fisher Saller. This book was released on 2009-08-01. The Subversive Copy Editor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Each year writers and editors submit over three thousand grammar and style questions to the Q&A page at The Chicago Manual of Style Online. Some are arcane, some simply hilarious—and one editor, Carol Fisher Saller, reads every single one of them. All too often she notes a classic author-editor standoff, wherein both parties refuse to compromise on the "rights" and "wrongs" of prose styling: "This author is giving me a fit." "I wish that I could just DEMAND the use of the serial comma at all times." "My author wants his preface to come at the end of the book. This just seems ridiculous to me. I mean, it’s not a post-face." In The Subversive Copy Editor, Saller casts aside this adversarial view and suggests new strategies for keeping the peace. Emphasizing habits of carefulness, transparency, and flexibility, she shows copy editors how to build an environment of trust and cooperation. One chapter takes on the difficult author; another speaks to writers themselves. Throughout, the focus is on serving the reader, even if it means breaking "rules" along the way. Saller’s own foibles and misadventures provide ample material: "I mess up all the time," she confesses. "It’s how I know things." Writers, Saller acknowledges, are only half the challenge, as copy editors can also make trouble for themselves. (Does any other book have an index entry that says "terrorists. See copy editors"?) The book includes helpful sections on e-mail etiquette, work-flow management, prioritizing, and organizing computer files. One chapter even addresses the special concerns of freelance editors. Saller’s emphasis on negotiation and flexibility will surprise many copy editors who have absorbed, along with the dos and don’ts of their stylebooks, an attitude that their way is the right way. In encouraging copy editors to banish their ignorance and disorganization, insecurities and compulsions, the Chicago Q&A presents itself as a kind of alter ego to the comparatively staid Manual of Style. In The Subversive Copy Editor, Saller continues her mission with audacity and good humor.
