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Revision And Self-Editing (Write Great Fiction) by James Scott Bell

Revision And Self-Editing (Write Great Fiction) James Scott Bell ebook
Page: 272
Format: epub
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
ISBN: 1582975086, 9781582975085

I at last finished reading Revision & Self-Editing yesterday afternoon. He served as the fiction columnist for Writer's Digest, and has written two bestselling craft books in the Writers Digest Series Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure and Revision & Self-Editing. The Write Great Fiction -series has other books, too, and they are: Dialogue, Revision and Self-editing (I SO NEED THIS!!) and Description & Setting. An excess amount of detail or overuse of a particular story element can reduce the reader's interest and cause her to “skip to the good part” or put the book down and never pick it up again. I bought it weeks ago, back before finals It's part of the Write Great Fiction series, and I plan to get all the books. It covers about every prospect of the fiction trade and gives dozens of techniques for improving each. I'll wager that anybody who does take that next step .. But either way, Maass gives you good exercises to test your manuscript with. En tu caso, sugiero la serie Write Great Fiction Series, que incluye los tomos Dialogue; Characters, Emotions & Viewpoint; Description & Setting; Revision & Self-Editing y Plot & Structure (todos se venden por separado). My favorites include: The Writing Life (Dillard), Bird by Bird (Lamott), On Writing (King), The Fire in Fiction (Maass), If You Want To Write (Ueland), Revision and Self Editing (Bell) , On Writing Well (Zinsser). I'd never want to put my fiction out in public without the scrutiny of all those extra eyes--but after so many years of writing, I'm a confident enough self-editor that my manuscripts generally just need tweaking, rather than the kind of major .. Perhaps also, once having self-edited to satisfaction, getting a professional manuscript review if you can afford it, isn't a bad idea. There's a very high rate of turnover in the lower levels of publishing) was a REALLY GOOD editor whose long rejection letters, long revision letters, and talented line edits taught me a LOT about my craft and about self-editing. Figuratio (@figuratio) said on April 13, 2013. Self-editing is considerably different than being in a creative mode, so send your muse to vacation in Tahiti; it's time for your inner editor to pick up the red pencil and get to work. Self-editing is a very important component in fiction writing. I always like to keep checklist for everything I do – from character building to story elements to scene elements and revision checklist. This is in many ways a perfect companion to Bell's classic Plot & Structure. Spend some time 6 responses to Tips on self-editing fiction books. You can read and nod your head and say, “Yeah, that's a great idea,” or you can take the next step and actually apply what he's advising to your own writing.