Brief Guide for Writers is a practical help for writers who want to move "the ideas swirling about in my head" to a final manuscript that will get published. Packed with dozens of tips and hints, this book gives step-by-step instruction on preparing a manuscript so it will shine and be noticed by editors and publishers. This veteran author offers advice on where to get ideas, how to organize them, and then how to turn ideas into a worthy book or article.
Like having children, the work of writing is front-loaded. The benefits last a lifetime but the work of writing is just that--work. Writers put their thoughts into printed words that educate, inspire, entertain, challenge, and change the world. It is satisfying work.
This little book introduces the work of researching, writing, and rewriting so that a thing of beauty might emerge--this is the romance of writing. We writers start with a cell of an idea and watch it gestate. Then we mentor our manuscript, correcting and nudging it along, and finally send off our full-formed offspring into the world to make a difference.
It is hard work, but enormously gratifying. This book aims to inspire you to stay at the task of raising your manuscript and turning it loose in the world.
Like having children, the work of writing is front-loaded. The benefits last a lifetime but the work of writing is just that--work. Writers put their thoughts into printed words that educate, inspire, entertain, challenge, and change the world. It is satisfying work.
This little book introduces the work of researching, writing, and rewriting so that a thing of beauty might emerge--this is the romance of writing. We writers start with a cell of an idea and watch it gestate. Then we mentor our manuscript, correcting and nudging it along, and finally send off our full-formed offspring into the world to make a difference.
It is hard work, but enormously gratifying. This book aims to inspire you to stay at the task of raising your manuscript and turning it loose in the world.
