Savvy Self-Editing: A Guide for Developing Your Own Editing Process - Couverture souple

Wayman, Antoinette

 
9781418437961: Savvy Self-Editing: A Guide for Developing Your Own Editing Process
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ISBN 10 : 1418437964 ISBN 13 : 9781418437961
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2004

Synopsis

You can't sell if you're not read. Getting read meansbeing ready with polished work.In today's tight, competitivemarkets, writers are expected to submit professional, finished work. Agents andeditors will not read past page three if the writing has spelling, grammar orpunctuation errors, or if the writing is dull, scattered or inflated.Agents and editorswant focused, page-turning, reader-friendly materialThe Savvy Self-Editing Book is a guide for writers to develop their ownediting process to suit their needs and vision. It breaks down the editingprocess into three stages: Content,Sentence, and Copy Editing. Itsconcise format gives writers concreteexamples, charts, and quick and easyediting techniques that make a difference! Here are some quotesBarnaby Conrad, Author of Matador, Director ofthe Santa BarbaraWriters' Conference:"An absolute must book for any beginning writer!"Charles Champlin,former Arts & Film Editor, Los Angeles Times, calls Savvy Self-Editing:"An amazingly compact treasury of priceless advice for any writer." "The Stunk L White of editing."Cork Milner, Author: Write From the Start, The Art of Interviewing; magazine articles for Writers Digest, Los Angeles Times, Playboy and Travel:"There is morefast information in 'Tony Jaymes' book Savvy Self-Editing,¿than any two-inch thick manual'

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Présentation de l'éditeur

You can't sell if you're not read. Getting read meansbeing ready with polished work.In today's tight, competitivemarkets, writers are expected to submit professional, finished work. Agents andeditors will not read past page three if the writing has spelling, grammar orpunctuation errors, or if the writing is dull, scattered or inflated.Agents and editorswant focused, page-turning, reader-friendly materialThe Savvy Self-Editing Book is a guide for writers to develop their ownediting process to suit their needs and vision. It breaks down the editingprocess into three stages: Content,Sentence, and Copy Editing. Itsconcise format gives writers concreteexamples, charts, and quick and easyediting techniques that make a difference! Here are some quotesBarnaby Conrad, Author of Matador, Director ofthe Santa BarbaraWriters' Conference:"An absolute must book for any beginning writer!"Charles Champlin,former Arts & Film Editor, Los Angeles Times, calls Savvy Self-Editing:"An amazingly compact treasury of priceless advice for any writer." "The Stunk L White of editing."Cork Milner, Author: Write From the Start, The Art of Interviewing; magazine articles for Writers Digest, Los Angeles Times, Playboy and Travel:"There is morefast information in 'Tony Jaymes' book Savvy Self-Editing,¿than any two-inch thick manual'

Biographie de l'auteur

Tony Jaymes'Savvy Self-Editing Handbook and Seminar evolved from two years ofwriting her novel and five years of learning how to edit it. It is her practical,hard-earned, coffee-stained manuscript experience condensed and concentrated.Her credits include published short stories, editor of three published books,and author of Savvy Self-Editing. TheSavvy Self-Editing Seminar has been given at writers' conferences andworkshops. Her novel won a Santa Barbara Writers' Conference Fiction Award andwas one of the finalists in the 1990 Hackney Literary Awards.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1418437964
ISBN 13 
9781418437961
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
100
Coordonnées du fabricant
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