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Writing tips from the CIA’s ruthless style manual

2014-07-08 humanitysdarkerside Leave a comment

CIA gives great, and difficult to remember, writing tips.

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Source: Glendalarke.com
The Death of Jonas Wakefield
Pratchett, Terry: Rincewind
Plain Jane
http://www.kylepaints.com/
Artist: Kyle Scott
Cover art by Don Sipley
Cover art by Don Sipley
http://epl.delfi.ee/news/kultuur/raamatukatkend-neil-gaiman-ja-tee-lopus-on-ookean?id=67595986
The Ships of Air - Martha Wells - Polish cover with text
Angela of Troy
An Unexpected Apprentice
Rex Rising
The Christmas Caper by Christopher Bunn
Happy Slumbers
Russian Very Good Jeeves
The House
captain's fury
Academ's Fury 1
Moon Dance
http://simania.co.il/bookimages/covers0/8631.jpg
http://simania.co.il/bookimages/covers0/8631.jpg
Redeeming Stanley 2
Artist: Caitlin Willey
Artist: Caitlin Willey
Twice Dead, German cover, 2013
Shadowbloom - Sullivan brothers
A-Memory-of-Light-cover-670x444
pieces of eight
C & R Crime; New Ed edition (2007-04-26)
http://media.comicbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane-gaiman.jpg
http://media.comicbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane-gaiman.jpg
Confederation
the weight of blood
The Diamond Bearer's Destiny
Dawn Undercover - Japanese cover
lady_of_devices_shelleyadina_cover_500x800
Raventide - TA Miles
Seraphina, 2012
Monstrous regiment
http://conceptartworld.com/?cat=10
http://conceptartworld.com/?cat=10
Alexa's Travels
Long Lankin - Lindsey Barraclough
McDermott, J.M.: Never Knew Another
https://www.coverkicks.com/
https://www.coverkicks.com/
waiting game
http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=HN.608007399206880798&pid=1.7
http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=HN.608007399206880798&pid=1.7
http://www.otherland-berlin.de/tl_files/bilder/content/AUSLESE%20-%20Buecher/us-books/2013/gaiman-ocean.jpg
http://www.otherland-berlin.de/tl_files/bilder/content/AUSLESE%20-%20Buecher/us-books/2013/gaiman-ocean.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519ghDMIzVL.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519ghDMIzVL.jpg
Cover art by Steve Montiglio
Cover art by Steve Montiglio
http://www.lwcurrey.com/pages/books/146428/k-w-jeter/madlands
http://www.lwcurrey.com/pages/books/146428/k-w-jeter/madlands
Artist: Herbert James Draper
Artist: Herbert James Draper
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Cover art: Laura Hollingsworth
Cover art: Laura Hollingsworth
Nocturnal Origins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holme_(TV_series).jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VzyK-pXkL.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VzyK-pXkL.jpg
WolfsHeadWolfsHeart-pb
A Flight of Thieves
Cover art by Nekro
Cover art by Nekro
Asimov, Isaac: Foundation series
The Code of the Woosters - Russian Cover
The Last Swordmage
Death Has a Name
freedomcover2-13
A Space Between 2
Hellstrom's Hive, 1973
http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/63963684820/gto12llll
Tracking the Tempest
Snow Art - Simon Beck
Linkin_Park-Meteora-Frontal
green_rider__cover_art_by_pallanoph-d3j5tne
BridgesCityofDreamsA
http://elisabethcrabtree.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/final-final-cover-23.jpg
http://elisabethcrabtree.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/final-final-cover-23.jpg
http://deborahharkness.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/CoverGermanTranslationofTBOL.jpg
http://deborahharkness.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/CoverGermanTranslationofTBOL.jpg
Plain Jane - 3
wild-magic-UK-hb-500
Staying Dead - Laura Anne Gilman
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Watchtower by Elizabeth A. Lynn - Arrow Books
Demon Isle
Eric
The Hobbit
The Language of Power
Through Wolf's Eyes
on dark shores
A Turn of Curses
Torgs First Death
a diamond
Crossfire
Drinking life
http://readery.co/9786169187301
Book design by Nicole de las Heras
Book design by Nicole de las Heras
Apocalypto
GermanOnceBitten
The wise man's fear marc simonetti
The First Spark, Independent (2016)
Illustrator: Brigitte Sutherlands
Illustrator: Brigitte Sutherlands
Cover_Imperatore.qxp:Layout 1
Madlands - Italian cover
Plague town
Jingo
Cover illustration by Amandine La Barre
http://amandine.labarre.free.fr/vaisseauxduciel.jpg
The Necessity of Man, 2012
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41uOEiGjKoL.jpg
Source: Amazon
Jeeves and Wooster
Isbn: 9788852036545
http://alessandria.bookrepublic.it/api/books/9788852036545/cover
Artemis Fowl Chinese cover
Moon Over Soho - deviant art - delrayspectra
Little Girl Lost
Much Obliged Jeeves
Bajo la Hiedra - Elspeth Cooper
Carnivores of Light and Darkness
Cover art by David Palumbo Cover design by Rebecca Silvers Interior layout and design by Ross E. Lockhart
Cover art by David Palumbo Cover design by Rebecca Silvers Interior layout and design by Ross E. Lockhart
Luis-Royo-Dreams-Ties-of-Power
Shiv Crew
Madlands - French cover
Eugène_Delacroix_-_La_liberté_guidant_le_peuple
Illustrated by Mathia Arkoniel
Illustrated by Mathia Arkoniel
Shadow of the Sun
highkingstomb
Pursuit
Legenden om Hurog
Child of the Ghosts
crucible by jim burns
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91oJNXK%2B4EL.jpg
German edition
Artist: Byron Brown
Artist: Byron Brown
Hardship - Jean Johnson - Gene Mollica
Ros Jackson
Cover illustration by Alan Gutierrez
Cover illustration by Alan Gutierrez
Bitterwood
The Last Swordmage
The Chermasu by Brian Patrick McKinley
Draw One in the Dark
English cover
Chinese edition
Transformation space 1
hawkcover2orange
shadewright
the book of deacon
http://covers.booktopia.com.au/big/9780575079540/bone-song.jpg
http://covers.booktopia.com.au/big/9780575079540/bone-song.jpg
Polícia - Jo Nesbø - Slovak 2
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iTXerlFrL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
Source: amazon.com
Delightfully Twisted Tales Kindle cover
Altdorf
the-republic-of-thieves-by-scott-lynch-new-uk
Oath of Swords
Sourcery
http://lucidflux.deviantart.com/art/The-Ocean-at-the-End-of-the-Lane-462803837
By Laura Ketcham
http://www.colinsmythe.co.uk/discworldpages/discworldnovels/colourofmagic.htm
http://www.colinsmythe.co.uk/discworldpages/discworldnovels/colourofmagic.htm
Strata
The Ships of Air - Martha Wells - French cover with text
Polis - Jo Nesbø - Svensk
Cover artist: Sarah Ann Langton
Cover artist: Sarah Ann Langton
A Triumph of Souls
Polícia - Jo Nesbø - Slovak
bcc18-hour-of-dust-and-ashes
Shaedes-of-Gray
Океан в конце дороги, Нил Гейман
Source: Amazon
Source: Amazon
Into the Valley
A-Forthcoming-Wizard-150841-d4902f8679c2f83a8362
Smite Me
A Wild Hunt
Dark Earth - Jason Halstead 2
Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl by David Barnett - UK edition
Hunting the Five
Rifkind's Challenge - Lynn Abbey
Birth Marked
Blood Brothers
Land of Shadows
The Ships of Air - Martha Wells - Cover with text
Łowcy czarnoksiężników (Polish title); translated by Sylwia Twardo
Łowcy czarnoksiężników (Polish title); translated by Sylwia Twardo
Wild Magic; London, Scholastic Point, 2004
http://www.bookkaholic.com/what-should-i-read-next/the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane-by-neil-gaiman/
Dead Iron, 2011
Infidel - kameron hurley
Nightshifted
RAPTURE - Kameron Hurley
Artist: Matthew Stewart
Artist: Matthew Stewart
the hunt
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Source: Glendalarke.com
We Leave Together - JM McDermott
c3018-mercythompsonbook
Djinnxd
Gaiman, N. (2013). The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
Stories
Assured Destruction - Micheal F Stewart
Illustrated by Marcellus Shane Jackson
Illustrated by Marcellus Shane Jackson
Born of Fire, 2012
World After
http://www.lectur-addicts.fr/uploads/482
http://www.lectur-addicts.fr/uploads/482
House of Mere
http://steniosantos.deviantart.com/art/The-Ocean-at-the-End-of-the-Lane-435034900
By Stênio Santos
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http://www.tor.com/2014/09/24/midway-relics-and-dying-breeds-seanan-mcguire/
Artist: Theo Prins
ShapeshiftedFinal
http://lamilanabonita.com/2015/02/18/el-oceano-al-final-del-camino-de-neil-gaiman/
thief_of_time__terry_pratchett_by_marcsimonetti-d2z6fuv
Cover illustration by Amandine LaBarre
http://amandine.labarre.free.fr/chasseurssorciers.jpg
Cast in sorrow without text
Editing and cover design by Tim C. Taylor Cover images by KireevArt and fotola70
Editing and cover design by Tim C. Taylor Cover images by KireevArt and fotola70
http://julienalday.blogspot.no/2011/10/n193-when-we-were-executioners.html
http://julienalday.blogspot.no/2011/10/n193-when-we-were-executioners.html
Hilda - Snow White Revisited
Goblintown justice
Hemlock
http://ec4.images-amazon.com/images/I/81M8%2BssUJdL.jpg
http://ec4.images-amazon.com/images/I/81M8%2BssUJdL.jpg
24 Bones - Michael F Stewart
Magic-at-the-Gate-5-e1352909080304
Het lied van de aarde, Elspeth Cooper
cdc0e-aaron_spiritsend-tp
Bone Song
7156_TB_Pastworld.indd
Over the Horizon
A soldier's duty
blood harvest
Gaiman, N. (2013). Ocean at the end of the lane.
The Ships of Air - Martha Wells - Cover by Donato Art
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - NKJemisin
The Wizard Hunters - Martha Wells - German Cover
uten navn
The Reapers are the Angels - Alden Bell
Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Lord of The Rings (1954-1955)
http://www.lesedwards.com/Edward-Miller/science-fiction/railsea/16716
Artist: Les Edwards at lesedwards.com
Jacket illustration by Paul Kidby
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/The_front_cover_of_the_book_Raising_Steam_by_Terry_Pratchett.jpg
Illustration by Getty Images; Cover by Jan Biberg
Illustration by Getty Images; Cover by Jan Biberg
Social Psychology - Aronson Wilson Akert
Cover art by Jon Foster
Cover art by Jon Foster
Demonsouled
a hand for each
The Gate of Gods - Martha Wells - French edition
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  1. No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

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