Composition category: 2309 books
Dinosaur Discovery
Brush Up on Your Writing Skills
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
The ‘Creative Writing Tutor’ scheme provides a lively series of themed booklets that will stimulate your child’s imagination and inspire him or her to write in a more interesting way and to achieve better results. The booklets provide ‘a tutor’ for the child, fun features and stories to read,...
The Creativity Book
A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2000
Whatever you do, says Dr. Eric Maisel, creativity helps you do it better. Creativity encourages the artist to paint more frequently and authentically. It allows a busy executive to see her options more quickly, make changes more fluidly, and become more self-directing and confident.
In this...
Pep Talks for Writers
52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Every writer knows that as rewarding as the creative process is, it can often be a bumpy road. Have hope and keep at it! Designed to kick-start creativity, this handbook from the executive director of National Novel Writing Month gathers a wide range of insights and advice for writers at any stage...
A Writer's Space
Make room to dream, to work, to write
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Eric Maisel provides an original approach to creativity that focuses on having both a mental and physical space in which to create. It gives authors with writer’s block a personal creativity coach to help spark their imagination.
Letters to a Young Writer
Some Practical and Philosophical Advice
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
**From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes a lesson in how to be a writer—and so much more than that.
Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers to constantly push the...
by Dan Price
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
When nomad artist and free spirit Dan Price began jotting down his musings in the form of whimsical drawings and inspired prose, he hardly could have imagined that his self-published journal-zine, the MOONLIGHT CHRONICLES, would earn him a cult following across the country. Now in its twentieth edition,...
How To Write The Million Dollar Story: Complete Step-By-Step Guide To Story Structure & Writing Novels
How To Write, #2
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2014
Do You Know The Simple Secrets To Write A Story That Will Sell Like Crazy? Writing a great story is the aim of every author. Once you've utilised the story-telling secrets contained in Million Dollar Story as part of your creative writing skills, you can do it over and over again – just like...
Midpoint Magic
How to Swing Your Screenplay or Novel in a New Direction and Say Good-Bye to Sagging Story Middles That Put Audiences to Sleep
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Stop Sagging Middles from Derailing Your Story (& Your Writing Career)
The middle of your story.
Nightmare.
And no wonder.
The middle (or Act Two) is just so dang long.
There’s another reason why plotting a novel or screenplay is hard: plot is based on...
by Jule Selbo
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Film Genre for the Screenwriter is a practical study of how classic film genre components can be used in the construction of a screenplay. Based on Jule Selbo’s popular course, this accessible guide includes an examination of the historical origins of specific film genres, how and why these genres...
Finding the Words
Writers on Inspiration, Desire, War, Celebrity, Exile, and Breaking the Rules
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Celebrated writers reveal surprising truths about the joys, challenges, and importance of finding the words, in this special fundraising anthology for PEN Canada.
In Finding the Words, thirty-one well-known writers share deeply personal discoveries and stories that will surprise, delight, and stir...
Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companion
Writing About Everything From Travel to Food to Sex
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companionis an essential guide to writing in a wide range of genres, from travel writing to feminist polemic and writing on nature, history, death, friendship and sexuality.
Part 1 explores the full range of genres and asks the question: what...
You've Got a Book in You
A Stress-Free Guide to Writing the Book of Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Writing a book is fun and easy--yes, FUN AND EASY--but it may not always feel that way. How do you find the time to write? How do you keep momentum? How do you deal with the horror of showing anyone a single sentence of your work-in-progress? The answers remain fun and easy, and author Elizabeth Sims...
A Writer's Book of Days
A Spirited Companion and Lively Muse for the Writing Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
First published a decade ago A Writer's Book of Days has become the ideal writing coach for thousands of writers. Newly revised with new prompts up-to-date Web resources and more useful information than ever this invaluable guide offers something for everyone looking to put pen to paper a treasure...
Writing Alone, Writing Together
A Guide for Writers and Writing Groups
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
The lonely life of a writer need not be. There are ways to break that isolation and find encouragement and support within groups of like-minded people. Sections in Writing Alone, Writing Together include Writing Practice Groups, Creating Writing Prompts, Group Leadership, and even What to Do with...