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Essential reading for budding writers.
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The Guardian's 2008 'How to Write' supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screenwriting, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range of leading professionals, including Catherine Tate on writing memorable comedy characters, Robert Harris on penning bestelling fiction and Michael Rosen on constructing stories that will appeal to young people.
This book draws together the material from those supplements and includes a full directory of useful addresses, from publishers and agents to professional societies and providers of bursaries. Whether you're looking to polish up your writing skills or you want to ensure that your manuscript finds its way into the right hands, How to Write will prove essential reading.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Sharp and concise. Just the book to improve your writing style even if you are not doing it profesionally. Well worth the meagre price.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
If you are serious, write today. Write tomorrow. write the next day. Make it part of your life.
13 Jan 2010
Format:Paperback
If you are serious, write today. Write tomorrow. write the next day. Make it part of your life.
One of the reviewers was not happy because this book is mainly a style guide for the Guardian. It was in fact one of the reasons that I wanted to read it.
Our language is all over the shop now and we cannot rely on the BBC to give us any pointers as to what we are supposed to be saying and doing with it.
The advantages of this book is that all the articles are quite short and to the point. It is broken down into How to write, a guide to good style and writer's directory that is how to approach publishers etc. The A-Z of style terms takes from page 218 to 315.
I am not a pedant where language is concerned but we now don't know where we are so the style guide is handy. All I want is some sort of consistency as to what we are supposed to be saying and reading. The style guide gives you plenty to think about.
Although we are reading and writing a lot more than we used to with blogs, texting etc all we are doing is copying other people's bad examples.
Under a I always thought it was an hotel but it seems I am wrong it it a hotel
Actors are now both male and female unless it is best actress.
My pet peeve is ahead of which they say avoid and use before or in advance of.
Basically this word is unnecessary basically. Some I have never understood begs the question which people think means raises the question.
A lot of the rules are about journalism but the problem is that the pubic think these are the real terms so newspapers use out of date expression even in my area of knowledge the law, so they talk about death duties, plaintiffs, access and custody which have all disappeared. No wonder the public are confused. I get clever individuals who think they know the law but are using all the wrong expressions and it makes them look stupid and uninformed, not clever.
They have a duty to get these things right particularly if you are reading the Guardian.
This is one of the many books on how to write and there is plenty to learn but as the quote at the beginning says the best way is to just keep doing it and thinking about it on a daily basis
If you haven't read about it this is as good as any particularly, the style guide.
One of the reviewers was not happy because this book is mainly a style guide for the Guardian. It was in fact one of the reasons that I wanted to read it.
Our language is all over the shop now and we cannot rely on the BBC to give us any pointers as to what we are supposed to be saying and doing with it.
The advantages of this book is that all the articles are quite short and to the point. It is broken down into How to write, a guide to good style and writer's directory that is how to approach publishers etc. The A-Z of style terms takes from page 218 to 315.
I am not a pedant where language is concerned but we now don't know where we are so the style guide is handy. All I want is some sort of consistency as to what we are supposed to be saying and reading. The style guide gives you plenty to think about.
Although we are reading and writing a lot more than we used to with blogs, texting etc all we are doing is copying other people's bad examples.
Under a I always thought it was an hotel but it seems I am wrong it it a hotel
Actors are now both male and female unless it is best actress.
My pet peeve is ahead of which they say avoid and use before or in advance of.
Basically this word is unnecessary basically. Some I have never understood begs the question which people think means raises the question.
A lot of the rules are about journalism but the problem is that the pubic think these are the real terms so newspapers use out of date expression even in my area of knowledge the law, so they talk about death duties, plaintiffs, access and custody which have all disappeared. No wonder the public are confused. I get clever individuals who think they know the law but are using all the wrong expressions and it makes them look stupid and uninformed, not clever.
They have a duty to get these things right particularly if you are reading the Guardian.
This is one of the many books on how to write and there is plenty to learn but as the quote at the beginning says the best way is to just keep doing it and thinking about it on a daily basis
If you haven't read about it this is as good as any particularly, the style guide.
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We all have a decent novel - or at least short story - inside us, and this book covers a range of writing styles and formats, so will I am sure prove a vital resource. Also some useful tips on grammar, so you won't boldly lunge into writing without checking your grammar, and, punctuation, *
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