Editing category: 186 books
Libro de estilo de El País
Nueva edición actualizada
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Un manual imprescindible para escribir bien.
Un libro de estilo no es una gramática ni un diccionario para el público en general, sino simplemente un código interno de la Redacción. Su propósito consiste en unificar sistemas y formas expresivas, con el fin de dar personalidad al propio...
by Eusebio Ruvalcaba
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 15, 2011
El autor presenta 52 tips, que se concentran en la escritura como un oficio que requiere de una práctica constante. Dicha aplicación es lo que el autor entiende como ejercicio de honestidad. El escritor no nace, sino se hace, y todo aquel que pretenda gozar de las mieles de tan honesto oficio, primero debe aceptar el sufrimiento que conlleva el enfrentamiento con uno mismo.
by Álex Grijelmo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Consejos lingüísticos, profesionales y éticos para escribir en los medios.
Un manual lleno de respuestas que puede salir al paso de cualquier duda.
La transformación del periodismo provocada por los avances digitales, con nuevas necesidades de información y ritmos más acelerados...
by Laura E. Coons
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Dialogue that drones on, clutters the page, or stalls the scene can ruin even the best of novels. Learn to avoid common dialogue pitfalls and dazzle your readers, editors, and agents with snappy scenes and smooth-as-silk transitions between dialogue and narrative. “He Said, She Said” is packed...
From 'Huh?' to 'Hurray!'
Righting Your Creative Writing
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Part textbook and part handbook, From 'Huh?' to 'Hurray!': Righting Your Creative Writing leads creative writers of all levels and all genres through the entire writing process. This accessible guide offers helpful suggestions to prompt and encourage even the most blocked writers to explore and develop...
Fixing Your Setting & Description Problems
Foundations of Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
(This book is part of Revising Your Novel: First Draft to Finished Draft)
Fix the setting and description problems holding your manuscript back!
A strong and well-described setting can draw readers right into your story, but a flat and bare world will make them leave it. Make sure your...
The Fiction Editor, the Novel, and the Novelist
A Book for Writers, Teachers, Publishers, and Anyone Else Devoted to Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
"Lucid, thoughtful…writers and teachers will learn much from it…Belongs wherever Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style finds frequent use."—Booklist
"Writers will actually learn things here."—Los Angeles Times
"Perfect for teachers, critics...
Ditch the Agent
How to find a traditional publisher
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
A writer pens a novel and wants to share it with the world. Where to begin? Submit / query the manuscript cold turkey? Wrong! Begin with DITCH THE AGENT - The Book for Writers. This no-nonsense book was written in response to hundreds of comments and questions from writers who are frustrated...
The Elements of Active Prose
Writing Tips to Make Your Prose Shine
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
‘The Elements of Active Prose’ gives you pithy tips for improving your writing scene by scene, sentence by sentence. If you’ve ever wondered what is meant by the advice to ‘show, don’t tell’ you’ll find the answer here, along with reassurance that such advice is not something that must...
by Martin Naparsteck
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
What makes great writing great writing is not spelling or grammar or syntax, but honesty. Not the careless honesty of our emotions, but the intellectual honesty that results from careful thoughts combined with a firm insistence that we write only true things. The honest writer always seeks to avoid...
Polishing Your Prose
How to Turn First Drafts Into Finished Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
This singular book illustrates how to edit a piece of prose and enhance its clarity of thought and felicity of style. The authors first present ten principles of effective composition, and then scrutinize three extended paragraphs, suggesting with remarkable specificity how to improve them. The volume...
by Marcy Kennedy, Chris Saylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Not your same old boring grammar guide! This book is fun, fast, and focused on writing amazing fiction.
The world of grammar is huge, but fiction writers don’t need to know all the nuances to write well. In fact, some of the rules you were taught in English class will actually hurt your fiction...
by Lynn McNamee
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Did you write what you meant to write? Is your meaning clear, or will readers misunderstand?
This style guide helps authors to make sure their writing is clear on the sentence level. “Just to Be Clear: Writing What You Mean” covers the following topics:
Dangling Participles
Misused...
First 100 Numbers
To Teach Counting & Numbering with Comfort - First 100 Numbers Color Shapes Tough Board Pages & Enchanting Pictures for Fun & Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
First 100 Numbers is a magnificent publishing which is directed towards learning habits of the toddlers and kids to teach them about counting without any sort of trouble. With our most impressive and modern First 100 Numbers Color Shapes, there are many colorful images and shapes involved to captivate...