{"id":3261,"date":"2015-07-30T07:28:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T14:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/?p=3261"},"modified":"2015-07-30T07:28:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T14:28:36","slug":"recommended-for-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2015\/07\/30\/recommended-for-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended for Writers: The Elements of Writing by Charles Euchner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Elements-of-Writing-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3263 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Elements-of-Writing-cover-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"Elements of Writing-cover\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Charles Euchner has several versions of his book out, but it&#8217;s worth overcoming any confusion this may cause to get your hands on a copy. When I bought the book it was called The Big Book of Writing, and in other editions\u00a0it seems to have been called The Writing Code. Now, glancing at <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1Sgg2A1\" target=\"_blank\">his page on Amazon<\/a>, I see it&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1G5Uei2\" target=\"_blank\">The Elements of Writing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s now broken up the book into component parts to sell as separate ebooks, which means that if you only want to focus on one aspect of writing at a time, you can do so. For instance, you might check out his book\/section on characters:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1dFo2uV\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3262 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Euchner-characters-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Euchner-characters\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, frankly, his entire series is so good, that I recommend you buy the whole kit&#8217;n&#8217;kaboodle, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1G5Uei2\" target=\"_blank\">The Elements of Writing<\/a>. Don&#8217;t skip his\u00a0advice on sentences and paragraphs, even if you fancy you can already turn out a good phrase. It&#8217;s excellent advice to hone your prose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1GFmDA5\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3269\" src=\"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Euchner-Sentences-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Euchner-Sentences\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From those bare bones, he truly does address nearly every aspect of writing, imparting juicy bits of wisdom at every stage.<\/p>\n<p>Check out\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1G5Uei2\" target=\"_blank\">The Elements of Writing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Euchner has several versions of his book out, but it&#8217;s worth overcoming any confusion this may cause to get your hands on a copy. When I bought the book it was called The Big Book of Writing, and in other editions\u00a0it seems to have been called The Writing Code. Now, glancing at his page [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[570,572,575,576,577,579,580,582],"tags":[616,696,726],"class_list":["post-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-word-diet","category-world-into-word","category-write-tips","category-writers-block","category-writing","category-writing-advice","category-writing-craft","category-writing-novels","tag-charles-euchner","tag-recommended-for-writers","tag-writing-craft-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}