Write and Revise for Publication by Jack Smith
Your first draft is a work of imagination, but that doesn't mean it's a work of art--not yet. With Jack Smith's technical and inspirational guidance, you can turn your initial draft into a compelling story brimming with memorable characters and a page-turning plot. As Jack states inside Write and Revise for Publication, writing is a complex act, one that calls upon all the powers of our creative resources, imagination, and intellect. Top-notch storytelling is not achieved the first time around, nor should it be expected so soon. But it is possible. Through Jack's detailed instruction and precise methods, you will learn the revision techniques and fine-tuning skills needed to create powerful, polished works ready to submit to magazines, agents, and publishers. As inspiring as it is practical...combines great advice, apt examples, and a can-do spirit that will excite and improve any aspiring writer. --Ron Hansen, author of A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure wisdom and truth, but also amazing technical advice. --Virgil Suarez, author of Latin Jazz, The Cutter, Havana Thursdays, and Welcome to he OasisHog to Hog, a satirical novel by Jack Smith, received the George Garrett Fiction Award in 2007 and was published in 2008 by Texas Review Press. Southern Review, North American Review, Texas Review, X-Connect, In Posse Review, and Night Train are among the literary periodicals in which he has published pieces. Ploughshares, Georgia Review, American Book Review, Prairie Schooner, Mid-American Review, Pleiades, the Missouri Review, and Environment magazine have all published his reviews. He's had over a dozen essays published in Novel & Short Story Writer's Market, as well as over a dozen in The Writer magazine. Write and Revise for Publication: A 6-Month Strategy for Creating an Outstanding Novel and Other Works of Fiction, his creative writing book, was published by Writer's Digest Books in 2013.
Killing Me Softly, a nonfiction environmental book he coauthored, was published by Monthly Review Press in 2002. Smith co-edits The Green Hills Literary Lantern, an online literary magazine published by Truman State University, in addition to writing.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781599637020 |
| ISBN 10 | 1599637022 |
| Title | Write and Revise for Publication |
| Author | Jack Smith |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Writer's Digest Books |
| Year published | 2013-08-08 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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