The lively art of writing
Subtitle: understanding forms
By: Lucile Vaughan Payne.
Publisher: Follett Pub. Co.
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: English language -- Composition and exercises.; Report writing.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: label: Chapter 1
title: The Sound of Writing
pagenum: 9; title: Who Listens? How?
pagenum: 10; title: "Hey, I Want to Tell You Something"
pagenum: 13; title: A Closer Look at "Real" Talk
pagenum: 16; title: The Rhythm of Speech
pagenum: 18; title: Listen, Listen, Listen
pagenum: 20; title: The Audience Test
pagenum: 21; label: Chapter 2
title: A Closer Look at Rhythm
pagenum: 24; title: Making Sentences Shorter
pagenum: 24; title: Shorter Paragraphs, Longer Sentences
pagenum: 26; title: The "Suspense" Sentence
pagenum: 28; title: Are You Still Listening?
pagenum: 30; title: The Easy-Does-It Paragraph
pagenum: 31; label: Chapter 3
title: Seeing Things
pagenum: 36; title: Taking Notice
pagenum: 39; title: Making Choices
pagenum: 40; title: The Establishing Shot
pagenum: 41; title: Sample Scenes
pagenum: 45; title: Picture Quality
pagenum: 47; title: Make Your Own Documentary
pagenum: 48; title: Working with a "Film Crew"
pagenum: 50; title: The Shooting Script-and the Secret Trick
pagenum: 51; label: Chapter 4
title: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
pagenum: 54; title: Similes and Metaphors
pagenum: 56; title: Never Again? Well.
pagenum: 59; title: When in Doubt
pagenum: 59; title: What's the Alternative?
pagenum: 60; label: Chapter 5
title: Getting into the Movies
pagenum: 62; title: "Telling" Shots
pagenum: 64; title: Showing by Examples
pagenum: 67; title: Switching On the Soundtrack
pagenum: 69; title: Stepping Up the Action
pagenum: 70; label: Chapter 6
title: Silent Signals
pagenum: 75; title: Full Stops
pagenum: 77; title: Brief Pauses
pagenum: 79; title: Only a Family Resemblance
pagenum: 81; title: Real, Live Talk
pagenum: 81; title: A Matter of Style
pagenum: 86; label: Chapter 7
title: I Remember, I Remember
pagenum: 88; title: The Art of Remembering
pagenum: 89; title: Early Sorrows
pagenum: 92; title: Catching Today
pagenum: 93; label: Chapter 8
title: Well... It Might Have Happened That Way
pagenum: 96; title: What Makes Fictional Characters Seem Real?
pagenum: 101; title: The Writer as Moviemaker: Pictures and Sounds
pagenum: 103; title: Some Secrets of Technique
pagenum: 105; title: Ideas for Stories
pagenum: 111; title: The Whole Story
pagenum: 114; label: Chapter 9
title: Breaking Loose with Language
pagenum: 117; title: The Name of the Game
pagenum: 122; title: Musicians Do It, Why Not You?
pagenum: 123; label: Chapter 10
title: The Riches of Economy
pagenum: 125; title: The Cinquain
pagenum: 125; title: Your Own Cinquain
pagenum: 127; title: The Haiku
pagenum: 129; title: Haiku Subtleties
pagenum: 131; title: The Haiku and the Camera Eye
pagenum: 134; title: In Search of Subjects
pagenum: 135; title: Index
pagenum: 137