Make Your Words Work

by Gary Provost

Overview

Gary Provost practices what he preaches in Make Your Words Work. He helps you learn to write well by, among other things, writing well himself. His warm, witty, entertaining instruction teams with solid examples as well as exercises. Get the good word now. This is the writing course to help you make your work more powerful, more readable, more salable.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781952979934
Publisher:	Crossroad Press
Publication date:	06/24/2020
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.73(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1	Some Questions Answered	1
Chapter 2	Style	9
	Coffee Break	40
Chapter 3	Grammar	43
Chapter 4	Music	53
	Coffee Break	66
Chapter 5	Pace	69
Chapter 6	Description	99
	Coffee Break	118
Chapter 7	Voices	123
Chapter 8	Characterization	161
Chapter 9	Viewpoint	185
Chapter 10	Unity	207
Chapter 11	Time	227
Chapter 12	Subtlety	233
Chapter 13	Tension	243
	Coffee Break	253
Chapter 14	Originality	255
Chapter 15	Credibility	261
	Coffee Break	272
Chapter 16	Form	275
Chapter 17	Rewriting	285
	Index	295

Editorial Reviews

Techniques for writing both fiction and nonfiction. Includes exercises. No bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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