Coming July 27, 2010 ...
Your story may be brilliant. Your insights may be groundbreaking. Your characters may be so real you can almost touch them. But they're not worth a thing if you can't bring them to life in well-written sentences. It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences is the first book to make the mechanics of the sentence meaningful to writers. Chapters include:
- A Frequently Overstated Case: The Truth About Adverbs
- Size Matters: Short versus Long Sentences
- You Don't Say: Quotation Attribution
- Trimming the Fat: Expressions that Weigh Down Your Sentences
- The Writing Was Ignored by the Reader: Passives
- Movable Objects: Understanding Phrase and Clause Structure
- Antique Desk Suitable for Lady with Thick Legs and Large Drawers: Prepositional Phrases
