501 Writers Useful Phrases

This is a selection of Writers Useful Phrases and designed as a self help book for writers and authors full of subject sentences and one-liners. You can use it as a 'reminder' tool when looking for a phrase or description of a particular moment that simply won't come to you in a head full of words and characters.

It is not a book of instruction and therefore is not there to solve your structural writing issues. However, it is the kind of reference book you may find of great help at one o'clock in the morning when you simply want to get that last word down; finish that last awkward sentence with a smile of satisfaction, before curling up with the reoccurring dream of selling your next million or two.

Maybe you are trying hard to express in only a few effective words how much your character is trying to hold his temper in a conversation that has been gradually gaining heat over a page or two? Well what about this little gem.

200: He felt his patience to be under continual provocation.

It's tight, concise and describes his/her feelings in a manner that brings closure. Within the pages of this little writer's assistant are five hundred more. Not every single one will find a space in your particular writing armory, but if you only use one or two in your next writing project, then the very low price of this book will have been worth it.