Título: 70 Solutions to Common Writing Mistakes
Autor: Bob Mayer
Sinopse: You'll Love This Book If: You are new to writing fiction or nonfiction You want to sharpen your writing skills You are stuck and looking for a solution Every writer at some point will hit a snag, problem, or rut within their writing, which is why 70 Solutions to Common Writing Mistakes is the perfect resource for you. Filled with more than 100 pages of writing advice, tips, and strategies, you'll find the answers to your problems with the flip of a page. Recommended for fiction or nonfiction writers, its explores common writing mistakes and provides simple solutions to immediately improve the quality of your writing. Bestselling author Bob Mayer divides the book into eight parts: Writing Habits - Starting or finishing writing, misusing writer's groups, forgetting the reader, not breaking rules, letting you ego get in the way, not managing your time, and failing to learn Idea Generation - Thinking of an idea that's different enough and doing enough work prior to writing, including who your target market and audience is Story/Plot Development - Figuring out your hook, setup, showing and telling, flashbacks, and writing emotional scenes Scene & Structure - The difference between incidents and scenes, choosing a point of view, creating conflict, writing dialogue tags, and setting your scenes Characters - Understanding your character's motivations, conflict, creating a weak antagonist, picking wrong character names, and recognizing your characters' needs and flaws Editing & Rewriting - Listening to too much feedback, not moving on, and falling in love with your bad writing Selling Your Work - Failing to use basic formatting, choosing bad titles, writing a bad query letter or synopsis, not knowing your market, paying for an agent to read your work, and taking any deal The Publishing Business - Not learning patience or sharing your knowledge or expertise, not using conferences correctly, not staying up-to-date on the business, getting scammed, not marketing yourself or your book, and giving up on writing Buy 70 Solutions to Common Writing Mistakes and master the basics — no matter what you're writing! In This Book You'll Learn: How to develop good habits, such as starting and finishing in writing Time management techniques to work efficiently Solutions for scene and structure problems, such as bad dialogue.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “70 Solutions to Common Writing Mistakes”, de Bob Mayer, publicado pela editora Writers Digest, em 2007 e com 125 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Writers Digest
Páginas: 125
Ano: 2007
Edição:
Linguagem: inglês
ISBN: 1582976317
ISBN13: 9781582976310
