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Special Effects - Short Takes on Stylish Prose (Paperback)
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Special Effects - Short Takes on Stylish Prose (Paperback)
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Special Effects: Short Takes on Stylish Prose tackles the dilemma
dedicated writers have faced for generations: how to make words on
the page as compelling as images on the screen. Perfect for film
buffs and TV enthusiasts who want to improve their writing, this
innovative handbook reveals how cinematics can transform
syntactics. Packed with 40 proven strategies designed to make
serious and scholarly texts "read" as seamlessly and enjoyably as
great movies, and accompanied by nearly 100 writing prompts perfect
for use in college courses, writers' workshops, and workplace
conference rooms, this one-of-a-kind guide shows how to make the
daring leaps action heroes and dauntless authors make routine. What
do James Bond flicks and Dante's Divine Comedy say about the art of
attention-getting beginnings? What does a thorough credit roll have
in common with effective scholarly citation? How can film set
gaffers and film noir writers show us how to "light" our prose? How
are passive verbs like guys on the lam in old black-and-white spy
thrillers? How do Black Panther films and Wonder Woman comics
inspire us to flip our scripts, diversifying the characters, real
and imagined, about whom we write? Special Effects addresses
writing's most persistent craft questions by boldly going where no
prose style guide has gone before: to a front row seat at the movie
theater.
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