Word Magic for Writers : Your Source for Powerful Language That Enchants, Convinces, and Wins Readers

Two manuscripts arrive on a busy editor's desk. They are twins in subject matter, theme, and the basic story they tell. Yet one manuscript is quickly rejected. The other makes it all the way through the editor's review process, to publication. . . .

What's the difference between the two manuscripts cited above? It is the one factor that keeps them from being identical twins. Think of it as WORD MAGIC. The first manuscript was well researched, clearly written, solidly structured. However, the writer of the second manuscript knew how to inject the kind of originality, flair, and expressive richness and sharpness into submitted work that made it grab and hold editorial interest all the way to publication.

That author had WORD MAGIC. Now you can have it, too or greatly increase the amount you already have from a single authoritative new source.

Here, finally, is a fascinating book that clearly shows you how to boost the success potential of your writing project, whether an article, speech, story, book, play, or advertising, by elevating, energizing, and charging up the language you use.

From this one source, you'll discover how to craft beginnings that hook the reader, middles that compel him or her to stay on the hook, dialogue and descriptions that sizzle and enchant, and endings that leave the reader eager to read more of your work.

WORD MAGIC will help you accomplish all this through dozens of proven language devices and secrets that successful authors use to lift their writing from the ordinary to the extraordinary.

Cindy Rogers is a teacher, an editor, and the author of three books and more than 100 stories, plays, articles, essays, profiles, and word conundrums. Her most recent book, Word Magic for Writers, is the result of several years of research on the richness and subtleties of the English language. Numerous articles and columns on the use of language and writing have been published in Writer's Digest, Children's Writer, and Magazine Markets for Children's Writers. Ms. Rogers' educational pieces have been published in Good Apple Newspaper, Educational Oasis, Parents of Teenagers and excerpts of her work have been used in testing materials by Harcourt Brace, McGraw Hill, SIRS, and Exploring English.