250 Things You Should Know About Writing

250 Things You Should Know About Writing

â€œChuck Wendig hammers out writing and career advice that's always brave, profane, creative, clever, and honest. And don't forget hilarious. You'll never laugh so hard learning so much." â€“ Matt Forbeck, game designer and author of AMORTALS and VEGAS KNIGHTS (Angry Robot).

â€œYou walk into this book a quivering neophyte crusted with writer fantasies and walk away a seasoned word warrior ready to do battle in the arena we call publishing.â€ â€“ Kristen Lamb, author of ARE YOU THERE BLOG? ITâ€™S ME, WRITER

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250 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WRITING is a booze-soaked, profanity-brined, Zen-lacquered look at the craft and art of writing, one list of â€œ25 Thingsâ€ at a time.

Featured within this book are the essays â€œ25 Things You Should Know Aboutâ€¦â€

â€¦Being A Writer, Writing A Novel, Writing A Screenplay, Writing A F**king Sentence, Storytelling, Character, Plot, Dialogue, Description, Editing/Revising, and finally, Getting Published.

(And yes, thatâ€™s actually 11 lists, which means the book actually has *275* things you should know about writing, but letâ€™s be honest, 250 sounds much cooler. Letâ€™s just go ahead and call that, â€œ25 bonus tips,â€ shall we? Boom. Value added.)

The book features sections such as:

â€œThe Transubstantiation of Trope,â€ â€œWhy Bad Decisions Are A Good Decision,â€ â€œNobody Sees Themselves As A Supporting Character,â€ "I Want To Buy The Semi-Colon A Private Sex Island," and â€œPlot Is Promise.â€

Contained within are things you should know about plot holes, self-publishing versus legacy publishing, "on-the-nose" dialogue, story versus plot, metaphors, copy-editing, killing darlings with a claw hammer, cursing like an undead pirate, and generally being a cranky and irreverent creative type.

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Country USA
Manufacturer Terribleminds
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2011-07-16
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Terribleminds
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2011-07-16
Format	Kindle eBook

250 Things You Should Know About Writing

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