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Magazine Writing That Sells By Don McKinney
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Title
- Magazine Writing That Sells
- ISBN
- 9780898796421
- Publication Year
- 1995
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Magazine Writing That Sells
- Item Height
- 236mm
- Publisher
- F&W Publications INC International Concepts
- Item Width
- 160mm
- Item Weight
- 500 g
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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You're about to embark on an article-writing adventure. In this book, Don McKinney - editor, freelance writer, instructor - helps you work toward a higher quality of writing, to better your chances of placing articles with a higher quality of magazine. You'll begin with the idea. Article ideas are everywhere - but often buried, like mountains under molehills. McKinney helps you unearth yours and advises you in matching it to a magazine. And he shows you how to sell your article - before writing it - by creating a query letter sure to catch an editor by the imagination and intellect. Once you've got the nod, you'll talk to people and dig up information. Keeping the interview on track; the tape-or-notebook question; probing sensitive areas - McKinney helps you make these conversations count. He also ushers you into the library and to reference publications that will put you on the trail to facts you need. And he gives you an overview of computer databases and what's available on-line and on CD-ROM. Talk about saving time. And then, ready with the fruits of your research, armed with supporting comments, it's time to write. This book helps you by taking you into the very core of good wordsmithing. You'll learn about: . Leads - the four basic functions your opening should serve, and four general categories of effective leads. You'll see how to grab your reader and yank him into your story. And how others, including E.B. White, Dave Barry and Frank DeFord, have done that. Endings - how to close your piece so that it rings in the reader's mind. You'll analyze ten types of finishes that McKinney identifies. Listen to the resonance in the samples of work by Shana Alexander, Saul Pett, JohnMcPhee, Rex Reed and others. Structure - how to pound and knead and shape the agglomeration of information you've collected into a well-told tale. You'll learn about four types of article structure. And you'll see how, once you've got your story's elements in their proper places, to sn
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Publisher
F&W Publications INC International Concepts
ISBN-13
9780898796421
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Book Title
Magazine Writing That Sells
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
1995
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
236mm
Item Width
160mm
Item Weight
500 g
Additional Product Features
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United States
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Unit 4
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Berkshire
RG30 1DZ
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