Write Good or Die freebie manual

[Scott Nicholson]

What do Heather Graham, J.A. Konrath, M.J. Rose, Gayle Lynds, Kevin J. Anderson, Alexandra Sokoloff, Jonathan Maberry and 13 other authors have in common besides selling millions of novels? They share their advice in the writing download "Write Good or Die," available free in multiple formats at Smashwords, http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/13037. Covering art, craft, and business from a variety of perspectives.

(At Amazon, the edition is 99 cents, the lowest possible price allowed, with all proceeds benefiting the non-profit agency Literary Inc.) http://www.amazon.com/Write-Good-or-.../dp/B003H4QZOG

Also free at Scribd at http://www.scribd.com/doc/29948679/Write-Good-or-Die

Scott

[Nate the great]

I just love the idea of a book on writing that displays poor grammar.

Shouldn't that book be titled "Write Well or Die"? Good is an adjective. Or am I being too much of a grammar Nazi?

[dreams]

Originally Posted by Nate the great

I just love the idea of a book on writing that displays poor grammar.

Shouldn't that book be titled "Write Well or Die"? Good is an adjective. Or am I being too much of a grammar Nazi?

Nope! "Write" is not a linking verb needing an adjective.

"Write" is an action verb. You use adverbs after action verbs, so it should be "Write Well or Die".

Maybe the title is to demonstrate common errors?

[lene1949]

Originally Posted by Nate the great

I just love the idea of a book on writing that displays poor grammar.

Shouldn't that book be titled "Write Well or Die"? Good is an adjective. Or am I being too much of a grammar Nazi?

This is funny... When I first came to Australia, I spoke very little English, and looked the words I needed up in the Danish/English dictionary, when I needed to go to an optometrist... and I said to him: 'I don't look so good!'

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Nate the great

I just love the idea of a book on writing that displays poor grammar.

Shouldn't that book be titled "Write Well or Die"? Good is an adjective. Or am I being too much of a grammar Nazi?

...which, to my way of thinking, is all about the humor in the title. If one wants to write well, one needs to read the book; otherwise, one writes only "good," and that's not good enough to get published...

Well....actually.....maybe maybe writing only "good" is good enough for self-published authors.


don

[BookCat]

Although my favourite writing program is "Write or Die", I'm unaware of anyone dying because they didn't write, well, good or appallingly (the writing, not the dying!).

So the ungrammatical title is maybe a little ironic?

[BookCat]

Found a serious typo in the contents page: Chapter 25 is called "How to get a litery agent" !

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by BookCat

Found a serious typo in the contents page: Chapter 25 is called "How to get a litery agent" !

Is there a chapter on Proof-reading?



Don