0円 This is a guide to help writers edit their own works. It is often very difficult to find many of your own errors. This guide will provide a systematic approach that if followed diligently will get most of them, prepare for e-publishing and improve style as well. Editors are expensive for self pub...

799円 Just what every writer needs -- a guide to word usage with attitude. (Some will say humor, too, but nearly everyone agrees on "attitude.") WORD WATCH is a compilation of columns written over several years for newsletters for writers' groups. It stemmed from a conversation with a fellow author, wh...

1,650円 Dress your story in its best clothes and get it past the slush pile! Spruce up your manuscript above and beyond what other writers are doing. Dunne With Editing, A Last Look At Your Manuscript gives step-by-step explanations and examples of how to put the finishing touches on your man...

2,010円 "Bell's prose is elegant and wonderfully readable in this artful guide."ーPublishers Weekly The Artful Edit explores the many-faceted and often misunderstoodーor simply overlookedーart of editing. The book brims with examples, quotes, and case studies, including an illuminating discussion of Max ...

425円 Every writer knows the benefits strong dialogue can bring to a storyーa faster pace, greater believability, increased tension, and even humor. But not every writer knows how to achieve it. And, unfortunately, weak dialogue can destroy a story even faster than strong dialogue can improve it. Weak ...

406円 How exactly does an author write a novel? Some will sit in front of the computer and start pounding away. Others will adopt a more methodical approach. Once that masterpiece is finished, how best to get it published? In a series of essays, Writing Tips for Authors answers questions on planning an...

4,695円 Have you ever thought that you might want to write a story but simply couldn't find a way to get started? This book, What's the Story?, just might launch you on the road to writing fiction. It consists of twenty casts of characters - made up of three to seven personages, with each character descr...

4,695円 Part textbook and part handbook, From "Huh?" to "Hurray!": Righting Your Creative Writing leads creative writers of all levels and all genres through the entire writing process. This accessible guide offers helpful suggestions to prompt and encourage even the most blocked writers to explore and d...

1,212円 Don’t Trust Your Spell Check tackles proofreading and copy editing from a different perspective. It shows you why we make mistakes, what mistakes we regularly make, and how to spot mistakes before you print or publish content. It also includes over 25 proofreading tests, designed to develop and ...

1,257円 An invaluable guide to the world of good grammar which breaks down the barriers that prevent so many articulate, intelligent people from communicating effectively. Picking up a book on grammar takes courage, but the learner can take heart from the fact that many of the great writers, including Ch...

993円 Most books written by grammarians contain errors. So do many of those written by others who tell us how to write and how to speak. Those writers sometimes seem not to grasp the ideas, not to understand the grammatical points, that they are writing about; they do not understand as fully as they wo...

425円 You’ve heard the advice “show, don’t tell” until you can’t stand to hear it anymore. Yet fiction writers of all levels still seem to struggle with it. There are three reasons for this. The first is that this isn’t an absolute rule. Telling isn’t always wrong. The second is that we lack a clear wa...