Articles from Writers and Publishers
How to Apply the Three Acid Tests of Persuasive Writing
By Philip Yaffe
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Book Writing Tips
How can you know that your text will be well received by your readers? Applying the three "acid tests" of good writing will ensure that your text will be clear, concise, and persuasive long before your readers ever lay eyes on it.
Write With Style - Show Don't Tell
By Rosemary Morris
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Book Writing Tips
This article explains the difference between telling a story and showing what happens in the story.
A Field Trip May Be Just What A Novel Needs
By Stacy Juba
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Book Writing Tips
Field trips can expand a writer’s knowledge base and provide opportunities to gather color, atmosphere and on-scene information unavailable in a research book. Even more important, hands-on exposure will show editors you did your homework. Agents and editors trust authors who strive for accuracy and readers like authors who plunge them into a world ripe with authentic details.
Writing A Killer Mystery Series
By Stacy Juba
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Writers can take many steps to improve their chances at series success. Not only does your book need an original concept and characters, it must also reflect qualities expected of all series. It’s not easy, but with careful planning, you can give readers what they crave. Here are 10 tips recommended by established mystery series authors.
Silent Movies, Wyatt Earp and Shakespeare
By Tom Barnes
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Book Writing Tips
Let's Go to the Movies
Wyatt Earp: First defense witness
Writers Notebook: Tips from great artist's
Hollywood Studios, Top Writers and Doc Holliday
By Tom Barnes
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Book Writing Tips
- Universal Studios grand opening and John Ford
- Doc Holliday's Road to Tombstone and Spicer Hearing with Ike Clanton on the stand.
- Writers Notebook: William Faulkner shares his approach to writing a novel.
Silent Movies and The Making of a Masterpiece
By Tom Barnes
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Tombstone 1881 Spicer Hearing. Doc and Wyatt to the cooler.
Hollywood Silents 1914-1929
Writers Notebook: The Making of a Masterpiece