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Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 288 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 210x138x24 mm, kaal: 289 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 07-Feb-2008
  • Kirjastus: Little, Brown & Company
  • ISBN-10: 0316014990
  • ISBN-13: 9780316014991
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 288 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 210x138x24 mm, kaal: 289 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 07-Feb-2008
  • Kirjastus: Little, Brown & Company
  • ISBN-10: 0316014990
  • ISBN-13: 9780316014991
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A special 10th anniversary edition of Roy Peter Clark's bestselling guide to writing, featuring five bonus tools.

Ten years ago, Roy Peter Clark, America's most influential writing teacher, whittled down almost thirty years of experience in journalism, writing, and teaching into a series of fifty short essays on different aspects of writing. In the past decade, Writing Tools has become a classic guidebook for novices and experts alike and remains one of the best loved books on writing available.

Organized into four sections, "Nuts and Bolts," "Special Effects," "Blueprints for Stories," and "Useful Habits," Writing Tools is infused with more than 200 examples from journalism and literature. This new edition includes five brand new, never-before-shared tools.

Accessible, entertaining, inspiring, and above all, useful for every type of writer, from high school student to novelist, Writing Tools is essential reading.

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Tools Not Rules': here are 50 essential ones that writers of all kinds can use every day.
Introduction: A Nation of Writers 3(6)
Part One. NUTS AND BOLTS
9(48)
Begin sentences with subjects and verbs.
11(4)
Order words for emphasis.
15(4)
Activate your verbs.
19(4)
Be passive-aggressive.
23(4)
Watch those adverbs.
27(4)
Take it easy on the -ings.
31(5)
Fear not the long sentence.
36(5)
Establish a pattern, then give it a twist.
41(4)
Let punctuation control pace and space.
45(5)
Cut big, then small.
50(7)
Part Two. SPECIAL EFFECTS
57(60)
Prefer the simple over the technical.
59(5)
Give key words their space.
64(4)
Play with words, even in serious stories.
68(4)
Get the name of the dog.
72(4)
Pay attention to names.
76(4)
Seek original images.
80(4)
Riff on the creative language of others.
84(4)
Set the pace with sentence length.
88(5)
Vary the lengths of paragraphs.
93(5)
Choose the number of elements with a purpose in mind.
98(5)
Know when to back off and when to show off.
103(4)
Climb up and down the ladder of abstraction.
107(5)
Tune your voice.
112(5)
Part Three. BLUEPRINTS
117(76)
Work from a plan.
119(5)
Learn the difference between reports and stories.
124(4)
Use dialogue as a form of action.
128(5)
Reveal traits of character.
133(4)
Put odd and interesting things next to each other.
137(5)
Foreshadow dramatic events and powerful conclusions.
142(4)
To generate suspense, use internal cliffhangers.
146(4)
Build your work around a key question.
150(5)
Place gold coins along the path.
155(4)
Repeat, repeat, and repeat.
159(6)
Write from different cinematic angles.
165(4)
Report and write for scenes.
169(5)
Mix narrative modes.
174(5)
In short works, don't waste a syllable.
179(5)
Prefer archetypes to stereotypes.
184(4)
Write toward an ending.
188(5)
Part Four. USEFUL HABITS
193(52)
Draft a mission statement for your work.
195(5)
Turn procrastination into rehearsal.
200(5)
Do your homework well in advance.
205(5)
Read for both form and content.
210(4)
Save string.
214(5)
Break long projects into parts.
219(4)
Take an interest in all crafts that support your work.
223(5)
Recruit your own support group.
228(4)
Limit self-criticism in early drafts.
232(4)
Learn from your critics.
236(4)
Own the tools of your craft.
240(5)
Afterword 245(1)
Acknowledgments 246(3)
Writing Tools Quick List 249(6)
Index 255


Roy Peter Clark is senior scholar at the Poynter Institute, one of the most prestigious schools for journalists in the world. He has taught writing at every level -- from schoolchildren to Pulitzer Prize-winning authors -- for more than forty years.

A writer who teaches and a teacher who writes, he has authored or edited nineteen books on writing and journalism, including The Art of X-Ray Reading, How to Write Short, Writing Tools, The Glamour of Grammar, and Help! for Writers. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he is considered a garage-band legend.