Robert's Rules of Writing

Name: Robert's Rules of Writing
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ISBN: 9781582973265

ISBN-10: 1582973261

ISBN-13: 9781582973265

Edition: 2005

Authors: Robert Masello

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With fourteen books and writing credits including New York, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Harper's Bazaar, and more, author Robert Masello knows how to get published. In Robert's Rules of Writing, he shares:*101 pithy writing lessons that help writers improve their work, save time, and increase productivity*Fresh, irreverent advice on the writing life, from "Be a Tease" to "Skip the Starbucks" to "Strip Down to Your Briefs"*Entertaining, useful instruction for all fiction writers, journalists, screenwriters, nonfiction writers, business people, and studentsNo matter how many writing books they already own, readers will welcome this novel approach to the writing life.

Book details

List price: $14.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: F&W Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/22/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Robert Masello is the author of three novels & ten nonfiction books, including "A Friend in the Business". He has taught writing classes at the Columbia University School of Journalism & UCLA Extension. He is currently executive story editor for the Aaron Spelling television series "Charmed".



Burn your journal


Get a pen pal


Throw out your thesaurus


Zip the lip


Call out the thought police


Don't overinflate the balloon


Skip the Starbucks


Take the prozac


Lose the muse


Get rolling


Let the well refill


Tell, don't show


Play God


Stop reading


Wave good-bye


Write what you read


Make 'em worry


Memo yourself


Get right, or get close


Know the territory


Set yourself down


Pick your poison


Bring out da noise


Map that route


Wing it


Don't look back


Let it marinate


Overcome your separation anxiety


Call "action!"


Pile it on


Reduce clutter


Say it again, Sam


Show what you know


Get dramatic


Flaw your hero


Perfect your villain


Skip the truth


Strip down to your briefs


Go subliminal


Cook up a story


Let them lead the way


Make an entrance


Do double duty


Be a tease


Keep the faith


Go for broke


Lay down the law


Keep your promises


Hit your marks


Don't push your luck


Take walk around the block


Lose your form


Set an alarm clock


Fall in love


Get rejected


Buy the smoking jacket


Keep your day job


Pick a personage


Ham it up


Know no shame


Pass the scuttlebutt


Go inside


De-claim! De-claim!


Take the long way


Show no mercy


Doubt everyone


Find your ideal


Kill the passion


Grumble and fuss


Engage the enemy


Mix it up


Graph it


Join up


Stake your claim


Get in style


Change your spots


Tone it up


Make 'em laugh!


Befriend your editor


Choose your words


Choose their words, too


Beware of easy inspiration


Add a dash of metaphor


Rid yourself of writing words


Convert yourself


Punctuate that thought


Build the perfect reader


Pass the scalpel


Gather ye moonbeams!


Lose your perspective


Take up whittling


Save every scrap


Engage in no false advertising


Keep your prose clean


Protect your inspiration


Magnetize yourself


Spill your secrets


Don't tense up


Call it quits


Grant yourself a title


Love words


Break the rules