Authors: Renni Browne, Dave King, Dave King
ISBN-13: 9780060545697, ISBN-10: 0060545690
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: April 2004
Edition: 2nd Revised and Updated Edition
Renni Browne, once senior editor for William Morrow and other publishers, left mainstream publishing to found the Editorial Department in 1980. Founder of the Lost State Writers Conference, and a regular commentator on writers and the writing life on local public radio, she lives in Greeneville, TN.
Hundreds of books have been written on the art of writing. Here at last is a book by two professional editors to teach writers the techniques of the editing trade that turn promising manuscripts into published novels and short stories.
In this completely revised and updated second edition, Renni Browne and Dave King teach you, the writer, how to apply the editing techniques they have developed to your own work. Chapters on dialogue, exposition, point of view, interior monologue, and other techniques take you through the same processes an expert editor would go through to perfect your manuscript. Each point is illustrated with examples, many drawn from the hundreds of books Browne and King have edited.
Introduction to the second edition | 1 | |
1 | Show and tell | 5 |
2 | Characterization and exposition | 23 |
3 | Point of view | 40 |
4 | Proportion | 67 |
5 | Dialogue mechanics | 82 |
6 | See how it sounds | 99 |
7 | Interior monologue | 116 |
8 | Easy beats | 140 |
9 | Breaking up is easy to do | 160 |
10 | Once is usually enough | 175 |
11 | Sophistication | 192 |
12 | Voice | 213 |
App. 1: Answers to exercises | 235 | |
App. 2: Top books for writers | 264 | |
Index | 269 | |
About the authors | 280 |