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Techniques of the Selling Writer
Dwight V. Swain
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Paperback.
Techniques of the Selling Writer provides solid instruction for people who want to write and sell fiction, not just to talk and study about it. It gives the background, insights, and specific procedures needed by all beginning writers. Here one can learn how to group words into copy that moves, movement into scenes, and scenes into stories; how to develop characters, how to revise and polish, and finally, how to sell the product.
Techniques of the Selling Writer provides solid instruction for people who want to write and sell fiction, not just to talk and study about it. It gives the background, insights, and specific procedures needed by all beginning writers. Here one can learn how to group words into copy that moves, movement into scenes, and scenes into stories; how to develop characters, how to revise and polish, and finally, how to sell the product.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd)
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Oklahoma, United States
ISBN
9780806111919
SKU
V9780806111919
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-42
About Dwight V. Swain
Dwight V. Swain spent a lifetime writing newspaper and magazine articles, pulp fiction, and screenplays. For more than twenty years he taught in the Professional Writing Program at the University of Oklahoma. His popular books, Techniques of the Selling Writer and Creating Characters: How to Build Story People are published by the University of Oklahoma Press.
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