1001 Tips for Writers Author:William A. Gordon This quotation book offers the best advice about writing and getting published today. The book includes: * Advice on how to get commercially published * What you need to consider if you are thinking of self-publishing * The inspirational success stories of writers who succeeded after struggling for years * The habits that separate professional w... more »riters from the amateurs, and * Why you might be better off working at McDonald's, and much, much more. The editor, William A. Gordon, has been collecting tips and quips from a wide variety of books, magazines, newspapers, trade journals, and symposia for over 30 years. Many of the tips are from the literary greats (Twain, Hemingway, Wilde, Lebowitz, and more) while others are from working writers and editors. Other subjects covered include creating controversy, overcoming writer's block, writing history, writing humor, writing fiction, newswriting, perseverance, success and failure, screenwriting, writing for television, what makes a bestseller, and writers' attitudes toward money. In the introduction, Gordon writes: "This book should give writers, especially aspiring writers, a better head start."« less