| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
338 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
1920s. Why I Rejected Ten Thousand Manuscripts, March 1921 / W. Adolphe Roberts. How to Plot a Story When You See It, December 1923 / Thomas H. Uzzell. The Author and His Style, January 1924 / Louis Dodge. Poetry and Verse: A Distinction, December 1926-January 1927 / Thomas Kennedy. The "Had Horrors", July 1927 / Laurence D'Orsay. Three Secrets of Successful Fiction Writing, February 1928 (impressions, mingling, sympathy) / J. Everet Courtney -- 1930s. How to Write Mystery Stories, The Writer's 1930 Yearbook / S. S. Van Dine. Write With Simplicity, The Writer's 1931 Yearbook / Albert Payson Terhune. The Working Philosophy of a Playwright (as told to Bernice Breen), April 1931 / Marc Connelly. Creating "Lovable" Characters, March 1938 / James Hilton. Within Quotes, August 1938 (dialogue) / Erle Stanley Gardner. Accent on the Unusual, December 1938 (articles) / Irving Wallace. Down With Modesty, August 1939 (characterization) / Phyllis A. Whitney -- 1940s. Setting the Pace, July 1941 / Arthur Gordon. Plots the Triple-O Way, The Writer's 1945 Yearbook / John Nanovic. What Happened?, March 1945 / Pauline Bloom. The Ten Deadly Sins, August 1946 / David X. Manners. Write It Simply, March 1946 / Eugene M. Fisher. How to Become a Character, The Writer's 1949 Yearbook / Louis L'Amour -- 1950s. Only One "Must", February 1950 / Mildred I. Reid. 1 Brain + 1 Brain + 1 Brain = Viewpoint, July 1951 / Morry Hull. How to Plot a Novel, January 1954 / Patricia McGerr. How to Break Up a Conversation, May 1954 / Allis McKay. Research in Reverse, March 1956 / Richard Deming. An Article Is Like a Sideshow, November 1958 / Helen Doss -- How I Write. Seventy-Five Years of Writing Advice selected by the Editors of Writer's Digest -- 1960s. What Way I Write!, October 1960 / Allen Ginsberg. The Short Story From a Purely Impersonal View, The Writer's 1961 Yearbook / Hallie Burnett. The Importance of Plot in the Novel, December 1965 / Taylor Caldwell. Organizing Your Material, March 1966 / Allan W. Eckert. Themes in the Traditional Novel, May 1966 / Robert C. Meredith and John D. Fitzgerald. Keep It Brief and Blend It In, July 1969 / Don James -- 1970s. Eight Types of How-to Articles and How to Write Them, November 1970 / Hugh C. Sherwood. Sensory Detail in Your Writing, May 1972 / Carl E. Johnson. Ten Rules for Suspense Fiction, February 1973 / Brian Garfield. The Horror Market Writer and the Ten Bears, November 1973 / Stephen King. Take Five: The Most Common Mistakes Among Beginning Freelancers, February 1976 / M. L. Stein. Writing Science Fiction: Think Like an Alien, Write Like an Angel, February 1976 / Gardner Dozois. Where Do You Get Your Ideas?, September 1976 / Lawrence Block. The Poetry of Concrete, October 1976 / Judson Jerome -- 1980s. To Make a Short Story Long . . ., September 1980 / Orson Scott Card. The Seven Beacons of Excellent Writing, April 1984 / Gary Provost. Your Future as a Writer, May 1986 / Isaac Asimov. How to Write Blockbuster Novels, October 1986 / Evan Marshall. Writing About Science, January 1989 / Ben Bova. Eight Ingredients of Powerful Nonfiction, September 1989 / Linton Weeks -- 1990s. Romantic Encounters, October 1991 / Jude Deveraux. The Big Finish, February 1992 / Don McKinney. Truth and the Writer (Young and Old), The Writer's 1961 and 1990 Yearbooks / Harlan Ellison |
| Summary |
Divided into decades from the 1920s to the 1990s, this compilation provides articles written by such authors as James Hilton, Phyllis A. Whitney, Allen Ginsberg, and Stephen King. |
| Subject |
Authorship.
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| Added Author |
Clark, Thomas.
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| Added Title |
Writer's digest (Cincinnati, Ohio)
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| ISBN |
0898796407 |
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