Writer's Digest Guide to Good Writing

by Clark, Thomas; Woods, Bruce; Blocksom, Peter; Terez, Angela

• ISBN13: 9781582971384
• ISBN10: 1582971382
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Writers Digest Books

Summary

75 years of solid writing instruction, advice and inspiration fill the pages of this book, culled from Writer's Digest articles. A goldmine of information from experts in the field.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(2)
1920s	3	(30)
Why I Rejected Ten Thousand Manuscripts	4	(5)
W. Adolphe Roberts
How to Plot a Story When You See It	9	(4)
Thomas H. Uzzell
The Author and His Style	13	(3)
Louis Dodge
Poetry and Verse: A Distinction	16	(9)
Thomas Kennedy
The ``Had Horrors''	25	(6)
Laurence D'Orsay
Three Secrets of Successful Fiction Writing	31	(2)
J. Everet Courtney
1930s	33	(33)
How to Write Mystery Stories	34	(4)
S.S. Van Dine
Write With Simplicity	38	(3)
Albert Payson Terhune
The Working Philosophy of a Playwright	41	(3)
Marc Connelly
Bernice Breen
Creating ``Lovable'' Characters	44	(2)
James Hilton
Within Quotes	46	(9)
Erle Stanley Gardner
Accent on the Unusual	55	(5)
Irving Wallace
Down With Modesty	60	(6)
Phyllis A. Whitney
1940s	66	(38)
Setting the Pace	67	(7)
Arthur Gordon
Plots the Triple-O Way	74	(5)
John Nanovic
What Happened?	79	(5)
Pauline Bloom
The Ten Deadly Sins	84	(6)
David X. Manners
Write It Simply	90	(7)
Eugene M. Fisher
How to Become a Character	97	(7)
Louis L'Amour
1950s	104	(36)
Only One ``Must''	105	(4)
Mildred I. Reid
1 Brain + 1 Brain + 1 Brain = Viewpoint	109	(6)
Morry Hull
How to Plot a Novel	115	(8)
Patricia McGerr
How to Break Up a Conversation	123	(5)
Allis McKay
Research in Reverse	128	(6)
Richard Deming
An Article Is Like a Sideshow	134	(6)
Helen Doss
How I Write	140	(29)
Seventy-Five Years of Writing Advice selected by the Editors of Writer's Digest	141	(28)
1960s	169	(37)
What Way I Write!	170	(3)
Allen Ginsberg
The Short Story From a Purely Impersonal View	173	(6)
Hallie Burnett
The Importance of Plot in the Novel	179	(2)
Taylor Caldwell
Organizing Your Material	181	(10)
Allan W. Eckert
Themes in the Traditional Novel	191	(7)
Robert C. Meredith
John D. Fitzgerald
Keep It Brief and Blend It In	198	(8)
Don James
1970s	206	(50)
Eight Types of How-to Articles and How to Write Them	207	(8)
Hugh C. Sherwood
Sensory Detail in Your Writing	215	(5)
Carl E. Johnson
Ten Rules for Suspense Fiction	220	(4)
Brian Garfield
The Horror Market Writer and the Ten Bears	224	(5)
Stephen King
Take Five: The Most Common Mistakes Among Beginning Freelancers	229	(5)
M.L. Stein
Writing Science Fiction: Think Like an Alien, Write Like an Angel	234	(9)
Gardner Dozois
Where Do You Get Your Ideas?	243	(8)
Lawrence Block
The Poetry of Concrete	251	(5)
Judson Jerome
1980s	256	(52)
To Make a Short Story Long...	257	(9)
Orson Scott Card
The Seven Beacons of Excellent Writing	266	(10)
Gary Provost
Your Future as a Writer	276	(7)
Isaac Asimov
How to Write Blockbuster Novels	283	(8)
Evan Marshall
Writing About Science	291	(9)
Ben Bova
Eight Ingredients of Powerful Nonfiction	300	(8)
Linton Weeks
1990s	308	(27)
Romantic Encounters	309	(6)
Jude Deveraux
The Big Finish	315	(8)
Don McKinney
Truth and the Writer (Young and Old)	323	(12)
Harlan Ellison
Index	335