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Subject: Phrases related to writing
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: psteinx-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 22 Aug 2005 08:33 PDT
Expires: 21 Sep 2005 08:33 PDT
Question ID: 558724
I'm trying to brainstorm for phrases related to the process of Writing
- phrases that key off of words like 'Writer', 'Author', 'Word',
'Book', 'Storybook', 'Tales', etc.  I'll use these words as possible
names for a game I'm working on and/or subelements within the game.

Two examples:
Writer's Block
Author, Author

They should be pretty short - no more than 4 words, but 2 word phrases
are the best.  Come up with 20 more to answer the question, please.

Thanks, 
Phil
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Subject: Re: Phrases related to writing
Answered By: tutuzdad-ga on 22 Aug 2005 08:51 PDT
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
Dear psteinx-ga;

Thank you for allowing me to answer your interesting question. Here?s
a list of many pertinent words that far exceeds the 20 you had hoped
for. If you also need the definitions you can go here:

A WRITER?S GLOSSARY
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art3115.asp


Advance 

Advertorial

All Rights or WorkforHire

Backlist

Bio 

Byline 

C.V. or curriculum vitae 

CC or Contributor's copy 

Chapbook 

Clips 

Cover Letter 

Copy

DF  (abbreviation for ?dark fiction? or ?dark fantasy?).

Distributor 

Dummy 

Editing Service 

Electronic Rights 

Electronic Submission 

Experimental Fiction 

First Rights or First American Serial Rights 

Fanzine 

Flash Fiction 

Formulaic Fiction 

Galleys  

Genre/Category 

GL or Guidelines 



About the Author 

Agent 

Anthology 

Assignment 

Attachments 

Biography 

Blank Verse 

Boilerplate 

Business size envelope 

Category fiction 

Clean copy 

Column inch 

Commercial novels 

Copyediting 

Copyright 

Creative Nonfiction 

Derivative work 

Desktop publishing 

Eclectic 

Editor 

Ezine 

Fair use 

Feature 

Filler 

First person point of view 

Flat Fee 

Frontlist 

Ghost writer

Gothic novel 

Hardcover  

Kill Fee 

Little/Literary 

Mass Market 

On Spec  

Payment on Acceptance 

Payment on Publication 

Pen Name 

Public Domain 




 


Haiku 

Hardcopy 

Historical Fiction 

Home page 

Hypertext 

Institutional Sales 

Interactive Fiction 

Invasion of Privacy 

Kicker 

Lead Time 

Lede 

List Royalty 

Literary Fiction 

Logline 

Magalog 

Mainstream Fiction 

Manuscript 

Markets 

Market Research 

Mass Market Publishers 

Memoir 

Meter 

Midlist 

Monograph 

Net Price 

Net royalty 

New Age 

Newbie 

Novel 

Novella 

Novelization 

Nut graf 

On Acceptance 

One Time Rights 

On Publication 

Oneshot feature 

Outline 

Overthetransom 

Overview 

Package Sale 

Page rate 

Parallel submission 

Parody 

PB 

Permissions 

Personal Essay 

Photo feature 

Pica 

Plagiarism 

POD 

Point of View 

Potboiler 

POV 

Proof reading 

Proposal 

Prose Poem 

Prospectus 

Query 

Reader  

Reading Fee  

Royalty  

Royalty Publisher  

RT 

SASE 

Second Rights 

SF/F/H (Abbreviation for science fiction/fantasy/horror

Slipstream 

Speculative Humor 

Subgenre 

Simultaneous Submissions  

Slush Pile 

Subsidy/Vanity Publisher  

Synopsis 

Tagline 

Tearsheets 

Trade book  

Unsolicited Manuscript 

Vanity Publisher 

Workforhire 

Short Short 

Short Story 

Side Bar 

Slug line 

Sonnet 

Speculative Fiction 

Stanza 

Submission Guidelines 

Subsidiary Rights 

Trim Size 

YA (Young Adult 13 to 22)

YW (Young Writer between the ages of 12 and 22)


I hope you find that my answer exceeds your expectations. If you have
any questions about my research please post a clarification request
prior to rating the answer. Otherwise I welcome your rating and your
final comments and I look forward to working with you again in the
near future. Thank you for bringing your question to us.

Best regards;
Tutuzdad-ga ? Google Answers Researcher



INFORMATION SOURCES

A WRITER?S GLOSSARY
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art3115.asp


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