The Craft, the Skill of Writing
Part Two: The Reference Side
| Gotta have a dictionary. Oxford is a venerable one. What's that mean? Look it up. Can penicillin cure it? Not in your case. Okay, while I'm at it, I'll look up "gotta." Shut up, Steve. | |||
| The Oxford American Desk Dictionary | |||
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Get this one. Not one of those stupid dictionary form ones. Did you know that thesaurus is another word for treasury? Do we care? What's that word, you know, that perfect word to describe you? Loveable? No, let me look it up... Ah, here it is "pismire." You needed a treasury for that? No. | |
| Roget's International Thesaurus | |||
 
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E.B. White is God. God? Okay, god. Strunk and White: Elements of Style |
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| Simply the most complete guide to standard script formats. Where the character name appears on the page. How to use parenthetical and character extensions. Don't know what they are? You'll need to if you want to write for the industry. The rules, the reasons, and examples. Volume one is for motion pictures, Volume two is for television formats. What is the formula for volume? Eleven. That's something I would say. Too late. |
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| All the places to sell your fiction and non fiction prose writing. Well, not all, but most. Okay, some. Suffice it to say, if you want to freelance, you need this book. ("Suffice it to say"? Um... yeah.) It also has tips from agents and publishers and writers on everything from pitching an idea for an article on the eating habits of the tomato worm to how to write a query letter. What do you call it when a group of writers live within the boundaries of four connecting streets? Writer's block? No, Hollywood. | 
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