Writer's Digest Guide to Good Writing

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.

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

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