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Teaching the Reasons Behind the Rules
There are a
lot of “rules” to writing in English, and even if you learn all of them, they
don’t cover every situation. But why try to memorize a bunch of arbitrary rules
anyway? Instead, learn the reasons behind the rules and toss out all those
conflicting references.
In each
weekly blog post at HarveyStanbrough.com, we address another nuts-and-bolts
topic of writing that’s valuable for all skill levels. In addition to our
popular full-length books Writing
Realistic Dialogue & Flash Fiction and Punctuation for Writers, we have several
single-topic ebooks on writing, including Self-Editing for Writers, Creating Realistic Characters, Writing Dialect, Writing Great Beginnings and many
others.
Here’s an
excerpt from The Seven Writerly Sins:
Common Snags in Writing Narrative
Your primary
purpose as a writer is to avoid interrupting your reader. After all, when she's
completely absorbed in reading your novel, why would you want to do anything to
interrupt her? The short answer is, You wouldn't.
But if you
really want to live the whole "struggling, starving writer" experience, unable
to find a market for your work even after you've received rave reviews from your
mom, your good sibling, and that one otherwise eerie uncle who lives alone in
that cabin out past the cemetery, just commit one or more of these seven
writerly sins. This invaluable little book is packed with often humorous looks
at Unnecessary or Excessive Text, Beating the Reader Over the Head, Misplaced
Modifiers, Inanity, Erroneous Facts, The Infamous Gave, and State of Being
Verbs.
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Harvey Stanbrough is an award-winning, National Book Award nominated writer,
editor and writing instructor who was born in New Mexico, seasoned in Texas,
and baked in Arizona. Having attended a 21-year civilian-appreciation course in
the US Marine Corps, he managed to sneak up on a bachelor’s degree at Eastern
New Mexico University in Portales in 1996. In addition to offering everything
you see above, Harvey also runs StoneThread Publishing, a no-fees,
traditional, royalty paying epublisher. Come see what the fuss is all
about!
Carolyn Howard-Johnson edits, consults. and speaks on issues of publishing. Find her The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success (How To Do It Frugally series of book for writers)
. Learn more about her other authors' aids at www.howtodoitfrugally.com/writers_books.htm , where writers will find lists and other helps including Great Little Last-Minute Editing Tips 
on the Resources for Writers page. She blogs on all things publishing (not just editing!) at her Sharing with Writers blog. She tweets writers' resources at www.twitter.com/frugalbookpromo . Please tweet this post to your followers. We all need a little help with editing. (-:
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