Composition category: 2309 books
Make a Scene
Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2007
Write Scenes that Move Your Story Forward
In Make a Scene, author Jordan E. Rosenfeld takes you through the fundamentals of strong scene construction and explains how other essential fiction-writing techniques, such as character, plot, and dramatic tension, must function within the framework of individual...
by Nancy Kress
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2005
Create Complex Characters
How do you create a main character readers won't forget? How do you write a book in multiple-third-person point of view without confusing your readers (or yourself)? How do you plant essential information about a character's past into a story?
Write Great Fiction:...
by Ron Rozelle
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2005
Build a Believable World
How essential is setting to a story? How much description is too much? In what ways do details and setting tie into plot and character development? How can you use setting and description to add depth to your story?
You can find all the answers you need in Write...
by Becca Puglisi, Angela Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Making readers care and feel like they’re part of the story should be the number one goal of all writers. Ironically, many storytellers fail to maximize one of fiction’s most powerful elements to achieve this: the setting. Rather than being a simple backdrop against which events unfold, every...
The Modern Library Writer's Workshop
A Guide to the Craft of Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
“Make [your] characters want something right away—even if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.” —Kurt Vonnegut
“‘The cat sat on the mat’ is not the beginning of a story, but ‘the...
by K.M. Weiland
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Position yourself to live an inspired life and send the dreaded writer’s block packing.
Inspiration is a slippery thing at the best of times. But as a writer, you can’t afford to wait around on Madam Muse’s goodwill. In this encouraging e-book, award-winning author K.M. Weiland shows...
1,000 Character Writing Prompts
Villains, Heroes and Hams for Scripts, Stories and More
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Do You Want To Create Rich, Three-Dimensional Characters? These 1,000 Hand-Picked Ideas Are Just What You Need.
From the author of 1,000 Creative Writing Prompts, this 150,000+ word reference tool can serve writers who need characters and need them now!
If character development is...
Plot Versus Character
A Balanced Approach to Writing Great Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
What's more important to a story: a gripping plot or compelling characters? Literary-minded novelists argue in favor of character-based novels while commercial novelists argue in favor of plot-based stories, but the truth of the matter is this: The best fiction is rich in both.
Enter Plot Versus...
Writing Tools
55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
A special 10th anniversary edition of Roy Peter Clark's bestselling guide to writing, featuring five bonus tools.
Ten years ago, Roy Peter Clark, America's most influential writing teacher, whittled down almost thirty years of experience in journalism, writing, and teaching into a series of...
Crafting The Personal Essay
A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Non-Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
Award winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders once compared the art of essay writing to "the pursuit of mental rabbits"-a rambling through thickets of thought in search of some brief glimmer of fuzzy truth. While some people persist in the belief that essays are stuffy and antiquated, the...
Elements of Fiction Writing - Characters & Viewpoint
Proven advice and timeless techniques for creating compelling characters by an award-winning author
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Vivid and memorable characters aren't born: they have to be made
This book is a set of tools: literary crowbars, chisels, mallets, pliers and tongs. Use them to pry, chip, yank and sift good characters out of the place where they live in your imagination.
Award-winning author Orson Scott...
The Five-Minute Writer
Exercise and inspiration in creative writing in five minutes a day
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
Suitable for writers, this title includes chapters that offers a writing-related discussion, followed by a five-minute exercise. Five minutes a day spent on an exercise is one of the most effective methods there is to expand your potential and develop self-discipline.
by Sara Maitland
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
The Writer's Way is a comprehensive and rewarding introduction to the art of creative writing. Its no-nonsense yet accessible tone and practical contents make it the perfect guide, whether you are a raw beginner of you have started writing and are looking for friendly guidance to help develop your talent....
by James Scott Bell
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Don't let the revision process intimidate you any longer. Discover how to successfully transform your first draft into a polished final draft readers won't be able to forget.
In Write Great Fiction: Revision & Self-Editing, James Scott Bell draws on his experience as a novelist and instructor...