I just found that The Times newspaper has an online Style and Usage Guide. This is a great tool when you are writing and need a quick check. If you write on a laptop, as I do, then it is often far more convenient to go to a website than go find a book on […]
I’ve just been through the exercise of helping a friend with the last stages of her book. In this case it was:
Planning test readers (it is a non-fiction book)
Updating her CV
Writing a good initial approach to publishers
Getting a good book synopsis together
Determining which publishers to approach and in what order
Making a start on a website […]
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
By Stephen King
Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, 2000
(Hardcover by Scribner, 2000)
ISBN-13 978-0-7434-5596-1
ISBN-10 0-7434-5596-7
Whatever you may think of Stephen King’s writing, there is no denying his huge presence over at least the US and really the English-speaking world’s writing. This book as an interesting as its author.
Writing a book is a very substantial task. If you are going to get it done you will need discipline and defined targets.
The Elements of Style
By William Strunk and E.B. White
Allyn and Bacon, Fourth Edition, 2000
ISBN 0-205-30902-X
Yes, Strunk and White is a must read. It is not the most exciting but the advice is solid, the writing excellent.
The First Five Pages:
A Writer’s Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
By Noah Lukeman
A Fireside Book, Published by Simon & Schuster, 2000
ISBN 978-0-684-85743-5
ISBN 0-684-85743-X
Noah Lukeman is a New York literary agent. He has represented many best selling and award winning authors and has been in a position to read a massive number of manuscripts; […]
Writing well is a combination of art and craft. Art because it is highly creative and expressive, craft because there are underlying processes and principles that you need to work with to be effective. These are true for both fiction and non-fiction, and even the technical writing that I have spent so long doing.
Getting non-fiction published in magazines is not too difficult, if you approach it correctly.