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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Ultimate Fiction Thesaurus - Complete!

The Ultimate Fiction Thesaurus - Complete!

Stone, Sam

Paperback

Grammar & Style

ISBN10: 1481217402
ISBN13: 9781481217408
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 12 2012
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The #1 selling thesaurus on Kindle is now available as a handy desk reference! There are a thousand ways to say something and at least a few hundred to express it well. This is not simply another thesaurus but 2 complete writing lessons which aim to shave a year off of your creative development. This is a bold objective but as you go over these devices, in this brief but powerful tutorial, it will train you to think like a novelist. Let's see how this works: First we start with a character description: Bill has grey hair. This is a fine description, and certainly direct, but let's flex our muscles a little more: Bill's hair is salted with grey. Bill's hair is frosted with age. Bill's hair is threaded with silver. Now try these concept words on your own: peppered, streaked, flecked, weeded You can immediately see the limitations of a traditional thesaurus; they are helpful at supplying literal equivalents, such as charcoal for grey, but frequently miss the finer nuances of language. Beyond the inspirational support most books offer, I can assure you that two things, and only two, are guaranteed to improve your writing. These are reading and the act of writing itself. This is a small but unique 'literary thesaurus' that bridges the gap of reading by taking common descriptive devices and words and places them into usable categories that will serve as a ready toolbox for your own writing. This tutorial is ideal for beginning and intermediate fiction writers.

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