Spunk & BiteToday's writer needs more than just a solid knowledge of usage and composition to write successfully. Bestselling author Arthur Plotnik reveals the secrets to attention-grabbing, unforgettable writing, in this trade paperback edition. Updated with all-new writing exercises, Spunk & Bite will help writers take books, articles, business reports, memos, and even e-mail messages to the next level. |
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... Martin Amis writes of a “Mahabharata of pain;” but to appreciate the image, a reader must be hip to the Mahabharata — a Hindu epic of some hundred thousand couplets. To use or not to use? One takes stock of one's audience, and gives it ...
... Martin Amis writes of a “Mahabharata of pain;” but to appreciate the image, a reader must be hip to the Mahabharata — a Hindu epic of some hundred thousand couplets. To use or not to use? One takes stock of one's audience, and gives it ...
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Contents
FIVE Upgrading Your Colors | |
SIX Joltingly Fresh Adverbs | |
A Sticky Choice | |
We Are the Words | |
ELEVEN Words with Music and Sploosh | |
THIRTEEN Words with Foreign Umami | |
FOURTEEN Dialogue Tags with Oomph | |
A Fun Grammatical | |
SIXTEEN Intensifiers for the Feeble | |
The Glorious Portal | |
The ThreePoint Landing | |
NINETEEN The Joys of HyperHyphenation | |
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