The Perfect Word: The Fine Line Writing Course - Paperback

by Kate Gould (Author)

Based on Kate Gould's experience as an editor, teacher, and critic, The Perfect Word is designed for writers of all levels and experience - from beginners and burgeoning talent to experienced and published writers. Combining technical instruction; insights into the methods of working writers; forty exercises to stretch your imagination and practice your skills; and advice on where to find inspiration from the mundane to the monumental, it is both an enjoyable and challenging read. Dip into it if you're in need of a jolt out of a writing rut or follow the structured lessons through each component of good writing. From your first venture out with a notebook, through the dangers of clichés, ellipses, and overwriting, to a lesson on how best to present your finished manuscript to a publisher or agent, this book provides a complete writing course.

Author Biography

Kate Gould is a Beethoven groupie and rats, flowers, and reading enthusiast. She has a BA in Journalism from Napier University and MA in Gender, Literature, and Modernity from Warwick University. She has worked as an editor, book critic, columnist, managing editor of an editorial consultancy, agent and publishing submissions assistant, reader for The Scotsman and Orange Short Story Prize, hotel critic, magazine editor, English language teacher, university course coordinator, and research assistant to Shere Hite and Germaine Greer. She is now Chief Editorial Consultant at The Fine Line and author of The Pocketbook of Prompts: 52 Ideas for a Story and The Perfect Word: The Fine Line Writing Course. Her book on flashers, Exposing Phallacy, is to be published by Zero Books.