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"Choice". by Brian Shawver. He currently lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where he teaches at Park University. "Shawver is an inviting, openhearted writer. His book is in no way a fustian treatise.

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Grand themes and complex plots are just the beginning of a great piece of fiction. Mastering the nuts and bolts of grammar and prose mechanics is also an essential part of becoming a literary artist. This indispensable guide, created just for writers of fiction, will show you how to take your writing to the next level by exploring the finer points of language. Funny, readable, and wise, this book explores the tools of the fiction writer's trade, from verb tenses to prouns to commas and beyond. Filled with examples from the best-seller lists of today and yesterday, it will help you consider the hows and whys of language, and how mastery of them can be used to achieve clarity and grace of expression in your own work. Here, you'll find Encouragement and advice to face the big questions: Past or present tense? Comma or semicolon? Italic or roman? Should your dialogue be phonetically rendered, or follow standard rules of grammar? (And where does that pesky quotation mark go, again?) Warning signs of the betrayal of language, and ways to avoid it: Unwitting rhymes, repetition, redundancy, cliche, and the inevitable failure of vocabulary How-to (and how-t-to) examples: The grammatical mistakes of Charles Dickens; ambiguous proun usage by Nathaniel Hawthorne; the minefield of paragraph fragments found in one of today's most successful authors

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University Press of New England
ISBN-10
1611683300
ISBN-13
9781611683301
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152332215

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Brian Shawver
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Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Usage & Writing Guides

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Hanover
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Author Biography
BRIAN SHAWVER is an alumnus of the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is the author of the novels The Cuban Prospect and Aftermath. He currently lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where he teaches at Park University.
Date of Publication
08/01/2013
Imprint
University Press of New England
Country of Publication
United States

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