E-book Category: E-Business, For Authors
E-book Title: Toolbox for Writers
Author: Mary Duffy
Book Description: Write "No-Doze" prose with our 120-Page Writing Guide.
Ten lessons not found in Bookstores, college or university libraries
In our age of Print-on-Demand, you could publish your book in a few days! You can do it by writing with confidence--how?
If your writing lacks Absolutes, Apositives, Zeugmas, Power Sentence Openers ... read on! While most writing guides teach you to write well, our guide will teach you to write effective and elegant "No-Doze" prose.
Imagine being able to write essays and stories--romances and novels--in no time. Yes, you can! Just follow our ebook: Ten writing lessons drawn from the masters of writing and literature...at your fingertips.
We all have the urge to create, the innate desire to express ourselves and to create beauty. Do it by writing a book, yes, by writing your own book! Want to write a mystery book? Do it!
Writing a novel--me? You'll ask. Yes, it takes grit, passion, imgination and zest, but we'll supply the writing advice and you the rest. If you yearn to write a novel and be acclaimed...Do it.
Our easy-to-read writing manual gets results. With the writing advice you'll find in our book, you'll be successful. Say "goodbye" to the fear of rejection. Take a determined--but inexperienced--writer struggling to depict a scene in which a character is pondering suicide: Overwhelmed by the horrifying thought, she sank in the sofa. See what adding a few words can do to the above sentence: Overwhelmed by the horrifying thought, teeth clenched, the box cutter tightly gripped in her hand, she sank in the sofa, tears coursing down her cheeks.
This is Benefit # 1. A simple example of how our book will make your writing crisp and alive. You'll benefit from many techniques; all of such power that will make your prose sizzle. No more anemic, feeble writing that causes you insecurity and anxiety.
I will explain to you why you should almost never begin your sentences with either a noun or a pronoun, and I will give you all the exciting alternatives that will make your prose sizzle. Benefit # 2. We will unleash for you the power of "Sentence Openers." Poe, Mailer, Updike, Danielle Steel, Stephen King, Garcia Marquez, Haruki Murakami, William Safire, Woody Allen, and other master-writers use them. Our guide will show how, when, and what to use for openers. After you read our writing manual, you'll see what's missing in your own writing: you can dissect your frog but you can't make it hop; you need our writing advice and our writing strategies. Consider your purchase a small investment in a savings bond that will yield lifetime dividends, gains, and steady income. We've spent countless hours in just about every bookstore in NYC, and nowhere have we seen a book similar to ours. Nor have we seen its contents on college and university shelves. Our Writing Book is unique and original in its approach.
In less than 15 minutes you'll be able to put our strategies to work. Our Table of Contents shows what you're going to be sinking your teeth into to learn the writing craft: - Part I Grammatical and Syntactical Tools (10)
- Chapter 1 Absolute Phrases Make Your Writing Crackle (11)
- Chapter 2 Appositives Make Your Writing Crisp and Clear (18)
- Chapter 3 Sentence Openers Make You or Break You (23)
- Chapter 4 Eliminates Sameness by Using Action Verbs, Reversals or Inversion (53)
- Appendix A to Part I - Phrases in the House of Language (59)
- Appendix b to part i - Clauses in the House of Language (62)
- Part II Rhetorical Tools (66)
- Chapter 5 Rhetoric: Zeugma, Oxymoron, and Parallelism (67)
- Chapter 6 Alliteration: a Pinch not a Dollop (75)
- Chapter 7 Oppositions, Correlative Conjunctions, and Pairs (79)
- Part III Fiction Tools (91)
- Chapter 8 From Light to Life sentences (91)
- Chapter 9 Romancing the Novel or Novelizing the Romance? (102)
- CHAPTER 10 INDIRECT FREE SPEECH (IFS) GET INSIDE THE HEAD OF CHARACTERS (104)
- Epilogue: not just writing, but writing con brio (114)
- Glossary (117)
- Index (126)
ALL GRAMMATICAL AND RHETORICAL TERMS ARE FULLY EXPLAINED Put on your dark glasses...YOUR future is bright!
Whether you think the Platonic Muse inspires a writer or whether writing is a function of hard work--as Edgar Allan Poe used to say--you'll write many books!
No, our book isn't about spelling, punctuation, grammar rules, or usage. Nor is it about chapter-end exercises, or answering clever questions. No drills. No memorization. It is a craft-manual about WRITING! We'll show you how to make your sentences canter, gallop, and race, dragging along an involved, craving reader.
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