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The Language of Fiction (Paperback)
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The Language of Fiction (Paperback)
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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 pronouns 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-not-to) examples: The grammatical "mistakes" of
Charles Dickens; ambiguous pronoun usage by Nathaniel Hawthorne;
the minefield of paragraph fragments found in one of today's most
successful authors
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