WRITERs DIGEST Magazine August 1976 MacKinlay Kantor Winfred Van Atta

Description: 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: August 1976; Vol. 56, No. 8 CONDITION: Standard sized magazine, Approx 8½" 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: MacKinlay Kantor, Going strong at 72. Cover Photo by Marcia Corbino. Advice to a Young Writer, by Winfred Van Atta. You know Freddy. He is young, rebellious, restless for the real world, wrestling with the demands of writing. He wants advice. And Van Atta, who remembers his own private wars, replies with the uncommon sense drawn from a lifetime of struggle and struggle with writing. MacKinlay Kantor Is Resting on His Laurels. Halt!, by Marcia Corbino. If he would just hang up his Dictaphone, fold his hands in his lap, and act his age, MacKinlay Kantor might be the dean of American novelists. But no: Kantor, 72, writes on. Women's Fiction Today: It's a Fast Track, by Eileen Jensen. Loosen the corset, gentle writers -- from the Big O in Cosmo to the tomato juice-belting heroine in Good Housekeeping, the field has but one parameter: emotional impact. Leading With Your Best, by Brian Vachon. It better be good. It better be . dynamite. Quote leads rarely do; dictionary leads, never. But a lead with verve, . tension, vitality will enchant editor Vachon, not to mention readers. For writers who still can't get started, William Slattery is on hand to commiserate in Beginning at the Beginning (page 25). Reviewing the Arts for Extra Money, by John P. Hayes. Who would be crazy enough to pay you to watch a play or to curl up with a book? Editors. The Markets. Harper's Weekly, the homey periodical popular with writers, has a new editor -- and a new look. WD also has a special report on fiction markets by Paula Sandhage (page 38) this issue. (Fiction is dying, of course. That's why we have to run this article in two parts.). How to Give Your Story a Face Lift, by Helene Schellenberg. If it's worth writing, it's worth rewriting, cosmetically if not completely. Here are some tips on how to cut the clutter; how to raise the curtain; and how to put your hero/ine through hell, high water and proms without dates. Elsewhere:. The Writing Life. Market Update. Pictures. Letters. Writers' Conferences. Contests & Awards. Nonfiction. Cartooning. Poetry. ______ 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.

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