{"product_id":"9781837760176-writing-coach-in-a-box","title":"Writing Coach in a Box","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Alan Anderson\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Cards, 110mm x 165mm, 410g, 60 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublished: Thames \u0026amp; Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat should you look for when you're re-reading a draft? What are the most common mistakes first-time authors make? How can you inject excitement into flat prose? How do you make readers root for your protagonist? What verbs should you avoid, and which must you use? Why should you mix long and short sentences?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This ingenious toolkit answers all these questions and hundreds more. Drawing on years of successful writing and publishing, and careful study of scores of how-to-write manuals and style guides, the \u003ci\u003eWriting Coach\u003c\/i\u003e will challenge, advise, encourage and inspire. And because the cards address universal problems of story and style, they won't just help novelists, but anyone who writes. So whether you want to create better books, blogposts, press releases, memoirs, news stories or screenplays, you'll get the coaching you need.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan Anderson\u003c\/b\u003e is the pen name of the Writing Coach, who works for a major UK publishing house and has written--under various names--books that have been published by HarperCollins, Profile, Laurence King, Carlton, and Red Wheel \u0026amp; Weiser. Anderson has also coached several authors to their first publishing deals, created hundreds of pitches for agents and publishers, and ghostwritten several memoirs and how-to titles. He lives in Brighton, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46085964333275,"sku":"9781837760176","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/8773522e091f45cb8e952ee8195d289a.png?v=1727657944","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781837760176-writing-coach-in-a-box","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}