Description
Book SynopsisWrite It Real reduces the writing process to its essential core, providing prose writers with pragmatic guides directed solely to improving their words where it matters the most, on the page. This book covers every aspect governing the inside process of producing compelling prose. In doing so, it avoids the abstract and "philosophical" theories of so many writing guides, the nonsense that loses the reader in the layered, labyrinthine maze of grammar and technical excess. Valenti's masterful book focuses instead on the time-tested, practical strategies that produce tangibleand sometimes instantresults.
Write It Real will help writers of all abilities, from developing to the selling pro, refine their work into sparkling clarity, and to do it with renewed confidence that comes from fully understanding how writing works from the inside of creativity out to the reader. This guidebook combines the best of a handbook and a "how to" with insights and strategies refined over dec
Table of Contents
Foreword – Preface – Acknowledgments – List of Abbreviations – Getting Ready to Write – Own Your Words – There Is No Such Thing as Writing – Write for the Reader, Not Yourself – First Draft, Rest, and Revision – Writing’s Magic Pill: The Paragraph – Beginning-Middle-Ending – Transitions: Getting from "Here" to "There" – Grammar and Punctuation: Accidence and Analysis – Making Your Case: The Rhetorical Modes of Exposition – The Last Word – Index.
