Finish Your Book in Three Drafts

Finish Your Book in Three Drafts
Author: Stuart Horwitz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2016-06-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9780986420429

How do you write a book? Stuart Horwitz helps you do it in three drafts. Three drafts: that's all you need. - The messy draft: which is all about getting it down. - The method draft: which is all about making sense. - The polished draft: which is all about making it good. Finish Your Book in Three Drafts is for outliners who meticulously script every writing session and pantsers who pilot solely by feel. It will help you get past the fear that can land a first draft in the trashcan, and the confusion that can send a second draft into a dizzying tailspin. Because you don't want to be writing the same book for the rest of your life. You can Finish Your Book in Three Drafts provided you approach each draft in the right spirit, and know what action steps to take between drafts. With clarity, honesty, humor, and even videos, Horwitz discusses the best outlook and direction for each of the three drafts so that you can increase your efficiency, satisfaction, and engagement with both your writing process and your final product.

The Roughest Draft

The Roughest Draft
Author: Emily Wibberley
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2022-01-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593201949

One of... Amazon's Best Romances of January Popsugar's Best New Romances of 2022 Buzzfeed, GMA.com, Shondaland, and Bustle's Best of January Oprah Daily’s Most Anticipated Romances of 2022 E! News' Books to Add To Your Reading List in January Bookbub's Most Anticipated Romances of Winter The Nerd Daily’s Swoonworthy 2022 Releases They were cowriting literary darlings until they hit a plot hole that turned their lives upside down. Three years ago, Katrina Freeling and Nathan Van Huysen were the brightest literary stars on the horizon, their cowritten book topping bestseller lists. But on the heels of their greatest success, they ended their partnership on bad terms, for reasons neither would divulge to the public. They haven't spoken since, and never planned to, except they have one final book due on contract. Facing crossroads in their personal and professional lives, they're forced to reunite. The last thing they ever thought they'd do again is hole up in the tiny Florida town where they wrote their previous book, trying to finish a new manuscript quickly and painlessly. Working through the reasons they've hated each other for the past three years isn't easy, especially not while writing a romantic novel. While passion and prose push them closer together in the Florida heat, Katrina and Nathan will learn that relationships, like writing, sometimes take a few rough drafts before they get it right.

2020 NHL Draft Black Book

2020 NHL Draft Black Book
Author: Hockey Prospect
Publisher:
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2020-06-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781999155223

In 2012 our first NHL Draft Black Book raised the standard for NHL Draft Publications. We feel that our 2020 edition of the NHL Draft Black Book is our best work yet. Once again our player profiles this year have draft grades and player ratings. We have ratings for Hockey Sense, Compete, Skill and Skating & a Miscellaneous category which encompasses physical attributes. The ratings are included for all of our 2020 player profiles. We also include the players draft grade and of course, the players ranking. The 2020 NHL Draft Black Book includes profiles for over 320 prospects eligible for the 2020 NHL Draft, plus over 100 profiles for the 2021 NHL Draft and over 50 profiles for the 2022 NHL Draft. Our 2020 NHL Draft Black Book is 590 pages and that includes 135 pages of game reports from our scouts. Our rankings are similar to an NHL team style list. The ranking is for prospects eligible for the 2020 NHL Draft. We also include a Top 32 ranking for the 2021 NHL Draft.

Draft No. 4

Draft No. 4
Author: John McPhee
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0374712395

The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher Draft No. 4 is a master class on the writer’s craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most esteemed writers of recent decades. McPhee offers definitive guidance in the decisions regarding arrangement, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces, and he presents extracts from his work, subjecting them to wry scrutiny. In one essay, he considers the delicate art of getting sources to tell you what they might not otherwise reveal. In another, he discusses how to use flashback to place a bear encounter in a travel narrative while observing that “readers are not supposed to notice the structure. It is meant to be about as visible as someone’s bones.” The result is a vivid depiction of the writing process, from reporting to drafting to revising—and revising, and revising. Draft No. 4 is enriched by multiple diagrams and by personal anecdotes and charming reflections on the life of a writer. McPhee describes his enduring relationships with The New Yorker and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and recalls his early years at Time magazine. Throughout, Draft No. 4 is enlivened by his keen sense of writing as a way of being in the world.

Baseball America's Ultimate Draft Book

Baseball America's Ultimate Draft Book
Author: Allan Simpson
Publisher: Baseball America
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-10-11
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781932391657

Baseball America invented coverage of the baseball draft. So who better than Baseball America to chronicle 50 years of draft history? As the baseball draft grows in prominence and more and more fans connect winning on draft day to winning in the major leagues, the BA draft book takes you through 50 years of great draft stories and the biggest hits and misses in draft history. The Baseball America 50th Anniversary Draft Book combines all the information of a great reference title with all the great stories that make draft history so rich. For every year of the draft, from 1965-2015, you'll get a complete team by team draft list, with who signed and who didn't, who reached the big leagues and who washed out. And the draft lists are more than just lists; they also feature interesting tidbits on people who became prominent baseball or in other sports or other careers altogether. You'll get the story of the most prominent storylines and people for every year of the draft, as well as plenty of charts and photos to take you in-depth on every year. This book will feature lots of information that has never been publicly available before, especially with signing bonuses from the early days of the draft. It goes without saying that anyone who has an interest in the baseball draft will have to have this book, but anyone who loves good stories (longshots that became major league stars, touted phenoms who washed out) will find fun on every page of this book.

Rough Draft

Rough Draft
Author: Amy J. Rutenberg
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2019-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501739379

Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy makers' idealized conceptions of Cold War middle-class masculinity directly affected whom they targeted for conscription and also for deferment. Federal officials believed that college educated men could protect the nation from the threat of communism more effectively as civilians than as soldiers. The availability of deferments for this group mushroomed between 1945 and 1965, making it less and less likely that middle-class white men would serve in the Cold War army. Meanwhile, officials used the War on Poverty to target poorer and racialized men for conscription in the hopes that military service would offer them skills they could use in civilian life. As Rutenberg shows, manpower policies between World War II and the Vietnam War had unintended consequences. While some men resisted military service in Vietnam for reasons of political conscience, most did so because manpower polices made it possible. By shielding middle-class breadwinners in the name of national security, policymakers militarized certain civilian roles—a move that, ironically, separated military service from the obligations of masculine citizenship and, ultimately, helped kill the draft in the United States.

Final Draft

Final Draft
Author: Riley Redgate
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2018-06-12
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1683352637

Laila Piedra doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke, and definitely doesn’t sneak into the 21-and-over clubs on the Lower East Side. The only sort of risk Laila enjoys is the peril she writes for the characters in her stories: epic sci-fi worlds full of quests, forbidden love, and robots. Her creative writing teacher has always told her she has a special talent. But three months before graduation, Laila’s number one fan is replaced by Nadiya Nazarenko, a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist who sees nothing at all special about Laila’s writing. A growing obsession with gaining Nazarenko’s approval—and fixing her first-ever failing grade—leads to a series of unexpected adventures. Soon Laila is discovering the psychedelic highs and perilous lows of nightlife, and the beauty of temporary flings and ambiguity. But with her sanity and happiness on the line, Laila must figure out if enduring the unendurable really is the only way to greatness.

Fast-Draft Your Memoir

Fast-Draft Your Memoir
Author: Rachael Herron
Publisher: HGA Publishing
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2018-02-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1940785421

This is your roadmap for completing the memoir you've dreamed about writing. "Rachael Herron resonates with our audience, and not just because she knows her stuff—she does—or because she's hilarious—she is—but because her honesty and earnestness come through in all her messaging." Samantha Sanders, Writer’s Digest Writing memoir is daunting! You’re the expert on your life, naturally, but narrating and organizing your own experiences in the best way can feel impossible. Many writers become frustrated in early drafting stages and quit after a couple of brief attempts. Learn from bestselling memoirist Rachael Herron (who teaches this class at Stanford Continuing Studies) how to fast-draft your memoir while keeping its structure compelling. Learn how to frame your life’s story and give it a natural arc to keep your reader glued to the page. Figure out how to handle those family and friends you’re writing about. Explore what truth means in memoir. Work quickly to quiet the inner critic. Most of all, learn how to get out of your own way to get the words on the page. You can do this! Rachael will show you how. CLICK BUY NOW!

The Last Draft

The Last Draft
Author: Sandra Scofield
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2017-12-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0143131354

The definitive handbook for the novelist who is ready to revise This wise and friendly guide shows writers how to turn first-draft manuscripts into the novels of their dreams. A critic, longtime teacher, and award-winning novelist, Sandra Scofield illustrates how to reread a work of fiction with a view of its subject and vision, and how to take it apart and put it back together again, stronger and deeper. Scofield builds her explanations around helpful concepts like narrative structure, character agency, and core scenes, using models from classic and contemporary writers. The detailed, step-by-step plan laid out in The Last Draft offers invaluable advice to both novice and experienced writers alike. In Scofield, they will find a seasoned, encouraging mentor to steer them through this emotional and intellectual journey.

From Draft to Book

From Draft to Book
Author: Kara Starcher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2022-01-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578357560

Whether your book is still just an idea or you are wrapping up the final touches or are somewhere in between in the writing process, From Draft to Book: A Guide to Self-publishing is just the manual to help you cross the finish line. Read the book from cover to cover or only the sections you need when you need them. With almost 20 years of experience in the industry, Kara Starcher has compiled a comprehensive how-to guide on the step-by-step process of producing a book. The four parts-Writing and Editing, Designing, Printing, and Planning-cover basic information about each specific stage of book production. This easy-to-understand manual discusses ?How to choose an editor?Money and contracts?Elements of page design?DIY cover basics?Final print submission files?Book specs for printing?ISBNs and barcodes?Title setup?Pricing, discounts, and returns?and more. Kara concludes with a three-month, week-by-week plan of practical steps to help you publish your book. Before you know it, you will be holding the final product in your hands and reaping the rewards of your investment. Pick up From Draft to Book and start your self-publishing journey today.