Composition category: 2309 books
Writing into the Dark
How to Write a Novel without an Outline
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
With more than a hundred published novels and more than seventeen million copies of his books in print, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith knows how to outline. And he knows how to write a novel without an outline.
In this WMG Writer’s Guide, Dean takes you step-by-step through...
by Lawrence Block
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Characters refusing to talk? Plot plodding along? Where do good ideas come from anyway? In this wonderfully practical volume, two-time Edgar Award-winning novelist Lawrence Block takes an inside look at writing as a craft and as a career.
From studying the market, to mastering self-discipline...
by Brenda Miller, Suzanne Paola
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Five stars for Tell It Slant ... An enlightening, comprehensive, and very satisfying text on writing and shaping creative nonfiction."
--Sheila Bender, editor and publisher of writingitreal.com and author of Writing and Publishing Personal Essays
When the poet Emily Dickinson wrote, "Tell...
Ten Tips for Topping the Romance Charts
How To Get Your Own Happy Ever After
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Romance author Serenity Woods and best selling author Mark Dawson provide ten short tips to help the eager beginner interested in turning their hobby of writing romance stories into a way to earn a living.
It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences
A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
In this wickedly humorous manual, language columnist June Casagrande uses grammar and syntax to show exactly what makes some sentences great—and other sentences suck.
Great writing isn’t born, it’s built—sentence by sentence. But too many writers—and writing guides—overlook this...
Now Write!
Fiction Writing Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2006
A collection of personal writing exercises and commentary from some of today's best novelists, short story writers, and writing teachers, including Jill McCorkle, Amy Bloom, Robert Olen Butler, Steve Almond, Jayne Anne Phillips, Virgil Suarez, Margot Livesay, and more.
What's the secret behind...
The True Secret of Writing
Connecting Life with Language
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Sit. Walk. Write. These are the barest bones of Natalie Goldberg’s revolutionary writing and life practice, which she presents here in book form for the first time. A whole new slant on writing that she developed since the publication of her classic Writing Down the Bones, True Secret workshops...
The Yahoo! Style Guide: Writing for an Online Audience
Writing for an Online Audience
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Previously published as part of The Yahoo! Style Guide.
WWW may be an acronym for the World Wide Web, but no one could fault you for thinking it stands for wild, wild West. The rapid growth of the Web has meant having to rely on style guides intended for print publishing, but these guides do not address...
Telling True Stories
A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Interested in journalism and creative writing and want to write a book? Read inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists.
The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism....
Spider, Spin Me A Web
A Handbook For Fiction Writers
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The craft of writing is a lot like spinning a web: You take threads and weave them skillfully together, and only you know where this intricate network of twists and turns begin and how it will end. Now, with Lawrence Bloock's expert advice, you can learn this art of entrapping your reader in a maze...
Wired for Story
The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
This guide reveals how writers can utilize cognitive storytelling strategies to craft stories that ignite readers’ brains and captivate them through each plot element.
Imagine knowing what the brain craves from every tale it encounters, what fuels the success of any great story, and what...
by Skip Press
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
This guide is for anyone who has ever thought of screenwriting. Written by someone who has "been there, done that," and lived to tell the tale, it reveals the most popular genres, explains how stories need to be structured for feature films and TV movies, offers the freshest look at workshops and online classes, and disusses how to set up a step-by-step path to success.
Le travail du style littéraire
Du scénario au manuscrit achevé
Language: French
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Rien, mieux que le style, ne désigne un auteur.Le style est son identité, sa marque, son empreinte. Les histoires passent, mais reste le style. Alors, refait-on son style ? Si on ne peut en effet le remplacer totalement par un autre, on peut néanmoins le cultiver, l'améliorer et le faire aimer.Dans...
Making a Literary Life
Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
As Carolyn See says, writing guides are like preachers on Sunday—there may be a lot of them, but you can’t have too many, and there’s always an audience of the faithful. And while Making a Literary Life is ostensibly a book that teaches you how to write, it really teaches you how to make your...