How to Write Short Stories for Magazines and Get Published!: ..and Get Them Published!
Writing short stories is both a science and an art. You need a certain amount of skill but you will increase your chances by studying your market and learning what magazine editors are looking for. It is not always obvious. How to Write Short Stories will take you as a would-be writer through the tricks of the trade by: - helping you discover what the different magazines are looking for and how to think up ideas to suit; - demonstrating how you can write different slants,
Daniel Quinn - If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways
"If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways" is a book by Ishmael author Daniel Quinn. It is presented as a dialog between Quinn and a reader of his books, and is intended to answer the question "How do you do what you do?"
Writing for children is not about writing little stories. It is about writing big stories, shorter. Based on the author's own successful MA course, this short guide to creative writing for children provides guidance on every aspect of the process of writing for children. This book goes far beyond the 'how to' format to help writers learn the finely balanced craft of writing for children. It will be an indispensable handbook for aspiring and practicing children's authors.
For anyone who has ever dreaded the blank page or struggled to find something to write and then agonized over how best to write it, or has simply found writing to be hard work, The Playful Way to Serious Writing breaks down common writing barriers and frees the writer within. Drawing on extensive experience in teaching creative writing and a lifetime of free artistic expression, Roberta Allen, novelist, short story writer, and author of Fast Fiction, has created a unique book of writing exercises packed with hundreds of verbal directives and visual cues.
Write It Right - A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults
The author's main purpose in this book is to teach precision in writing; and of good writing (which, essentially, is clear thinking made visible) precision is the point of capital concern. It is attained by choice of the word that accurately and adequately expresses what the writer has in mind, and by exclusion of that which either denotes or connotes something else. As Quintilian puts it, the writer should so write that his reader not only may, but must, understand.
