Write Tight Say Exactly What You Mean with Precision and Power

Name: Write Tight Say Exactly What You Mean with Precision and Power
Price: 4.92 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781402210518

ISBN-10: 1402210515

ISBN-13: 9781402210518

Edition: N/A

Authors: William Brohaugh

List price: $19.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $15.23

Marketplace

4 new & used from $4.92

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

?These days, most creative-writing courses teach self-indulgence. Write Tight counsels discipline. It is worth more than a university education. Its advice is gold.? -Dean Koontz Foreword by Lawrence Block Not since The Elements of Style has a writing guide had the ability to turn a writer's work around so effectively. Every writer struggles with keeping their prose focused and concise, but surprisingly few books address this essential topic. Write Tight is an informative and utterly readable guide that tackles these issues head-on. William Brohaugh, former editor of Writer's Digest, goes beyond the discussion on redundancy and overwriting to take on evasiveness, affectations, roundabout…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.94" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Foreword


Introduction: A Tight Fit Into Today's World



The Four Levels of Wordiness and How to Tackle Them



Sixteen Types of Wordiness and How to Trim Them



Prewriting Tight



Testing Your Writing for Flab



The Danger Signs of Wordiness



Exercises for Developing Your Awareness of Concision



Reducing the Mental Length of Your Manuscript



Nonverbal Streamlining



How Tight Is Too Tight?



Putting It All Together: Writing Light



Tips for Trimming During Manuscript Revision



Shave and a Haircut and a Few Bits


Bibliography and Sources



A Baedeker of the Redundant


Apologia


Index


About the Author