SEE BELOW for MORE MAGAZINES' Exclusive, detailed, guaranteed content description!* With all the great features of the day, this makes a great birthday gift, or anniversary present! Careful packaging, Fast shipping, and EVERYTHING is 100% GUARANTEED. TITLE: Writer's Digest Magazine ["America's Leading Writer's Magazine" -- See FULL contents below!] ISSUE DATE: February 1988; Vol. 68, No. 2 CONDITION: Standard sized magazine, Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo) IN THIS ISSUE: [Use 'Control F' to search this page. MORE MAGAZINES' exclusive detailed content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date. ] This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 COVER: How to Smash Writer's Block! FEATURES: 12 WAYS TO SMASH WRITER'S BLOCK BY MARSHALL COOK Can't get started? The words are jammed up inside your head? You're beginning to fear you'll never write again? Here are a writer's dozen of exercises to get the words flowing inside, to stretch the creative muscles, to get you off to a running start, no matter what kind of material you're writing. JOY IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING: AN INTERVIEW WITH TOM ROBBINS, PART I BY BILL STRICKLAND Lessons in lunacy and imagery from the author of Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume and other novels, in the first installment of our two-part interview. SETTING A GOOD EXAMPLE BY LORENE HANLEY DUQUIN Examples are versatile nonfiction tools that make articles clearer, livelier, more accessible and more credible. Here's how to find and write examples (and we throw in some examples of examples for good measure). OF POETIC INVERSION BEWARE BY DONNA DICKEY GUYER You wouldn't say "Up the stairs came I" in normal conversation, would you? But you might in poetry, because it's poetic, right? Wrong. Such word inversion--placing words in unusual sentence positions--is lazy writing. But correctable. CHRONICLE: WHAT RHYMES WITH "SINCERELY YOURS"? BY MOLLEE KRUGER Says the light verse writer to her correspondents: "Keep those cards and letters rhyming!". COLUMNS: POETRY "Ballad of the Ballade," by Judson Jerome. NONFICTION "The Taxing Life of a Writer," by Art Spikol. SCRIPTS "Action! Lots of Action!", by J. Michael Straczynski. FICTION "The Writing of Random Walk," by Lawrence Block. DEPARTMENTS. LETTERS. THE WRITING LIFE. TIP SHEET Serious strategies for selling your humor. THE MARKETS Getting down to business magazines. INSIDE BOOKS. COMING UP. ______ Use 'Control F' to search this page. * NOTE: OUR content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date. This description Edward D. Peyton, MORE MAGAZINES. Any un-authorized use is strictly prohibited. This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Careful packaging, Fast shipping, and EVERYTHING is 100% GUARANTEED.