Writing With Style: An Editor's Advice for RPG Writers - Softcover

Vallese, Ray

 
9781540545145: Writing With Style: An Editor's Advice for RPG Writers
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1540545148 ISBN 13: 9781540545145
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

A Style Guide with Style

Writing With Style: An Editor’s Advice for RPG Writers presents 45 pages of concise tips on simple ways to make your roleplaying game writing cleaner and clearer. This guide doesn’t show you how to structure adventures, build stat blocks, or create worlds. Instead, Ray Vallese looks at some of the most common and easily fixable grammar and style issues he’s encountered in over twenty years of editing RPGs. Rookie freelancers, industry veterans, and self-publishers alike can benefit from this (mostly) jargon-free guide, which addresses such topics as: • Recasting passive voice into active voice (and when you might not want to) • Dangling participles and other misplaced modifiers • Gender-specific and gender-neutral language • Commonly confused words, empty words, and clichés to avoid • Choice and possibility in player character actions • Final things to check before submitting your manuscript Tighten and polish your text with these quick and easy tips!

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Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1540545148
ISBN 13 
9781540545145
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
44