An edition of Don't sabotage your submission
(2008)
Don't sabotage your submission
save your manuscript from turning up D.O.A.
by Chris Roerden
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Fiction, Handbooks, manuals, Technique, Authorship, Marketing, Art d'écrire, Guides, manuels| Edition | Availability |
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Don't sabotage your submission: save your manuscript from turning up D.O.A.
2008, Bella Rosa Books
in English
193352331X 9781933523316
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Table of Contents
Precautions: for long-lasting relief
Not about rules
Judge and jury: screener-outers
what they look for
The plaintiffs: writers
what you hope for
The defendants: agents and publishers
why they want what they want
Corrections facilities: self-editors
how to do what only you can do
Terms of the will: a legacy of techniques-speak
With purpose aforethought: with density and richness for all
Hobbled hook: replace with high-tensile lines that stretch your holding power
Perilous prologue: Beware: may lead to low-tension, post-prologue, backstory ache
Bloody backstory: hide the evidence by slicing, dicing, splicing
Fatal flashback: caution: braking and shifting in reverse risks collision
Toxic transcript: watch those verbatim stories-within-the story
Deceptive dream: make the character wake up before the reader does
Time bomb: prevent whiplash from wacky sequencing
Dastardly description: Revoke the driver's license and come out of the clothes closet
Poisonous predictability: get therapy for cases of arrested development
Disappearing bodies: why introduce what isn't worth mentioning again?
Shifty eyes: danger ahead: slipping and sliding point of view
Unsettling setting: oh, no, not just another pretty place
Insufficient grounds: satisfy the hankering for anchoring
Slow death: end adverbosity, adjectivitis, and other contagious habits
Buried agenda: beware a tension deficit disorder
Dying dialogue: quit pretending its dialogue just because you put it in quotes
Treacherous tags: Snip
like embarrassing price tags worn in public
Mistaken identity: fight confusion profusion
Strangled speech: do you hear what I hear?
Killed by cliché: avoid like the plague
Gestured to death: stamp out illiteracy in body language
Snitch vs. spy: Telling vs. showing: long time no see
Noisy voice: Strengthen weak style
Words & misdemeanors: arrest abuse and insidious mis-uses.
Edition Notes
"Insider information from a career manuscript editor"--Cover
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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