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Editing Fiction ~ A Writer's Guide: Morgen Bailey's Creative Writing Workbooks
Oleh Morgen Bailey
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- Mar 8, 2020
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How to polish your novels and short stories – a comprehensive guide including a 170+ tips checklist. In this book we look at: the components of your story; points of view; tenses; the power of three: beginnings, middles, ends; another power of three: characters, settings, plots; conflict and pacing; polishing your writing: 170+ tips for making your writing shine; the layout of your book.
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Editing Fiction ~ A Writer's Guide: Morgen Bailey's Creative Writing Workbooks
Oleh Morgen Bailey
Panjangnya: 280 halaman1 jam
Deskripsi
How to polish your novels and short stories – a comprehensive guide including a 170+ tips checklist. In this book we look at: the components of your story; points of view; tenses; the power of three: beginnings, middles, ends; another power of three: characters, settings, plots; conflict and pacing; polishing your writing: 170+ tips for making your writing shine; the layout of your book.
- Penerbit:
- August Publishing UK
- Dirilis:
- Mar 8, 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781913633134
- Format:
- Buku
Tentang penulis
Morgen Bailey always loved books and writing (and blames reading Stephen King books under the duvet with a torch as a teen for her wearing glasses) but it wasn't until she went to an evening class in 2005 that she considered it as a career.
Now she is the author of 10 books so far, with more on the way...
Morgen’s fiction books include crime, mystery and women's novels, and short story collections.
They are mostly set against a Northamptonshire background, whether there is crime involved, a dog-detective that can talk, or a serial dater on a mission!
Her non-fiction works are aimed at all levels of writers whether beginners or those who want to refresh their skills – Morgen also tutors in person and has several online writing courses available. She runs her own mentor group on Facebook, very much a collaboration, and she invites all authors to join.
Her Writer’s Block Workbooks are a go-to for every author.
Morgen lives and breathes writing. When she's not editing or writing, she's walking her dog, out with friends, at a literary festival (speaking or visiting), or at the cinema (the only time she sits and does nothing).
Find out more about Morgen Bailey, her books, writing guides & courses on her website, www.morgenbailey.com.
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Editing Fiction ~ A Writer's Guide - Morgen Bailey
Bailey
Titles by Morgen Bailey
FICTION
After Jessica — money and a girl gone missing
Hitman Sam — a trainee hitman and love triangle
One for the Road — a hit-and-not-run novel
Oh, Henry — a comic dog-detective*
Henry Short Stories – comic dog-detective shorts*
The Serial Dater — 31 dates in 31 days*
The Serial Dieter — 31 dishes in 31 days*
*published as Rachel Cavanagh
Short Story Collections
Shorts — a collection of short short stories
Flashes — a collection of shorter short stories
NON-FICTION
Morgen Bailey’s Creative Writing Workbooks
Writer’s Block Workbooks
1000+ exercises and 50+ tips per book
Editing Fiction ~ A Writer’s Guide
Morgen’s guide to writing a story then pulling it apart
The 177-tips Checklist
1. Accents, slang etc.
2. Active verbs
3. Adjectives
4. Adverbs
5. Ages
6. Ago vs before vs earlier
7. All and both
8. Among vs amongst
9. And vs then
10. Animals
11. Any more vs anymore
12. Anyway or any way
13. Arms’ length or arms’ length
14. Apostrophes
15. As vs so/then or because/when
16. At all
17. Began to / started to
18. Besides vs beside
19. Body parts and movements
20. Capitalisation
21. Chapters
22. Characters’ names
23. Characters speaking
24. Characters thinking
25. Chronology
26. Clichés
27. Collapsed to the ground
28. Colons
29. Colours (colors)
30. Commas after ‘transitional’ phrases
31. Commas between adjectives
32. Commas in dialogue
33. Commas in general sentences
34. Commas – timing
35. Commas with conjunctions
36. Conjunctions
37. Context
38. Continual verbs
39. Contractions
40. Copyright
41. Crumbles or crumples
42. Cut and dry or Cut and dried?
43. Dash vs hyphen
44. Description vs dialogue
45. Dialogue: punctuation
46. Dialogue: tags
47. Dialogue – er, um, and well
48. Direct vs indirect action
49. Door vs doorway
50. Each other’s or each others’
51. Easily-confused words
52. Educate your reader
53. Effect vs affect
54. Ellipses
55. Endings
56. Every word has to count
57. Excess words
58. Exclamation marks and capital letters
59. Exclamation marks or question marks
60. Exposition
61. Faint vs feint
62. Farther vs Further
63. Feet vs Foot
64. Five senses
65. Fonts
66. Full stop (period) spacing
67. Genders
68. Genres
69. Glance quickly / briefly
70. Grammar
71. Hand in hand
72. Hankies vs tissues
73. Headed to
74. Hear vs here
75. He he she she
76. Historical writing
77. To home or to hone
78. Humour
79. Hyphen
80. Impact
81. In a flash
82. In front
83. In his / her tracks
84. Inverted commas vs speech marks
85. ised vs ized
86. Italics
87. Its vs it’s
88. Just
89. Killing your darlings
90. Language
91. Last and past
92. Later
93. Less is more
94. Lie vs lay
95. Little did he know
96. Lose or loose
97. May be vs maybe
98. May or might
99. Middle age vs middle-aged
100. Mr and Mrs or Mr. and Mrs.
101. Mum or mum, Dad or dad
102. Negatives
103. Night time, nighttime, or night-time
104. Normally, most of the time, usually
105. Nouns – collective
106. Now
107. Numbers
108. of the
109. OK okay?
110. Once and once more
111. On his / her face
112. On his / her heel
113. On the spot
114. Page breaks
115. Paragraphs
116. Parent’s or parents’
117. Past vs passed
118. PC or not PC
119. Poetry – alliteration and rhythm
120. Points of view
121. Pronouns
122. Questions
123. Read aloud
124. Read other people’s books
125. Repetition
126. Research
127. Round vs around
128. Said or asked
129. Said she vs she said
130. Scriptwriting
131. Seats – into or onto
132. Sentence construction – beginnings
133. Sentence construction – endings
134. Sentence lengths
135. Set up vs set-up
136. Shouted out
137. Showing not telling
138. Side to side or side-to-side
139. Sir
140. Sometime vs some time
141. Span vs spun
142. Spell and grammar check
143. Split infinitives
144. Stared vs starred
145. Stationary vs stationery
146. Still
147. Stories vs storeys
148. Swearing
149. Synopsise your novel
150. Take out the detail
151. Their, there, and they’re
152. This vs that
153. Three is a magic number
154. Timing – tenses
155. Timing – products
156. Titles
157. Today, tonight, tomorrow
158. to that
159. Tough, through, though, thought
160. Toward vs towards
161. Twenty-four seven or 24/7
162. UK vs US
163. Up and down
164. Verbs
165. Versions and backup
166. Voice
167. Wander vs wonder
168. Was vs were (subjunctive)
169. Way too many ways
170. Who vs whom
171. Who’s vs whose
172. Word choice
173. Word count
174. Words that mean the same
175. Wordy phrases
176. Why use four words when one will do
177. Zzz...
THESE INCLUDE MANY of the ‘errors’ I have found in my clients’ novels over the years so wanted to share them with you to help you with your writing ongoing.
Introduction
Hello. I’m Morgen Bailey , a freelance editor, writing-related blogger, former writing group chair, and creative writing tutor for Northamptonshire County Council’s Adult Learning sector covering the whole county of Northamptonshire, England, teaching 19 to 99-year-olds... and beyond!
I have been helping authors refine their novels, short stories, poetry, scripts, and non-fiction since 2008 and have worked with independent and traditionally published writers at every stage of their career.
I shall be guiding you through some of the processes needed to take your (primarily) novel or short story from first to final draft so that it’s good enough to submit to a competition, agent, or publisher.
I also write novels and short stories so I am also experienced to help you as a writer, not just as an editor. I know the sweat and tears (and sometimes blood!) that it takes to get the words from your brain onto paper or the screen.
This guide, I’m hoping, will help you thereafter.
In this book we will be looking at:
- the components of your story
- points of view
- tenses
- the power of three: beginnings, middles, ends
- another power of three: characters, settings, plots
- conflict and pacing
- polishing your writing – 177 tips for making your writing shine
- the layout of your book
- and finally (a summary checklist)...
This book is suitable for...
- Writers of any age and experience;
- Writers of novels and short stories (predominantly – it will help scriptwriters and poets too);
- Writers looking to have their writing taken seriously!
So do join me on this journey to make your writing get noticed.
Before I leave you to go through this guide, I’m going to set you a challenge...
An editing book should be perfect, shouldn’t it? Should you find any mistakes, do let me know (my details below) and I’ll reward you with a free e-book of any of my books (see https://morgenbailey.com) or, if you prefer, a free online course. You can choose from the options on https://morgenbailey.com/mentor).
I hope this book is useful to you. I’d love to hear how you get on.
Morgen
morgen@morgenbailey.com
www.morgenbailey.com
How to Polish your Novels and Short Stories
You’ve just finished your first draft, or your on your umpteenth draft, having worked hard for months on your manuscript and you’ve had a friend or family member to go through it, give you feedback and then – when you’ve made the amendments you’ve agreed with – it is your ‘baby’ after all – it’s ready to go. But is it?
I’m very honest with my clients about their writing (I say
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