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Write from the Heart
Unleashing the Power of Your Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
In his first edition of Write from the Heart, Hal Zina Bennett presented a spiritual approach to writing that showed both beginners and seasoned authors how to overcome blocks, unleash their creative voice, and see their books in print. In this edition, he gives readers an even more interactive experience...
by Roland Merullo
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
During the ten years author Roland Merullo (Breakfast with Buddha) taught at the university level, and during the numerous writing conferences and workshops he has been a part of since then, he has heard volumes of advice about the technical aspects of writing including plot, character, pace, description,...
Advice to the Writer
The Writer's Guide to Plot, Revision, and Autobiography: A Digital Pamphlet: Excerpted from The Modern Library's Writer's Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
From Stephen Koch, former chair of Columbia University’s graduate creative writing program, comes essential and practical advice drawn from The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop.
With nearly thirty years of teaching experience, Stephen Koch has earned a reputation as an astute and benevolent...
Wild Women, Wild Voices
Writing from Your Authentic Wildness
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Write to Celebrate, Heal, and Free the Wild Woman Within In her years as a writing coach, Judy Reeves has found twin urges in women: they yearn to reclaim a true nature that resides below the surface of daily life and to give it voice. The longing to express this wild, authentic nature is what informs...
The Writer's Mentor
A Guide to Putting Passion on Paper
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
In The Writers Mentor, bestselling author, teacher, and writing coach Cathleen Rountree addresses the most common dilemmas of both aspiring and professional writers. Written in a question-and-answer format, this book stands apart from other books on writing by its linking of practical information...
by Viga Boland
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
When Viga Boland, the author of 4 memoirs, was asked by participants to write a "how-to" book on writing memoir, the one thing she didn't want to do is write another textbook style guide. She decided the only way to give her followers what they wanted, was to tell them how she wrote her memoirs...
Stirring the Waters
Writing to Find Your Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
This spiritual self-help book is an friendly guide for readers of all faiths seeking a more satisfying and spiritually rich life.
Whether you're a seasoned writer or just write an occasional journal entry, Stirring the Waters will enrich your life. With a poet's insight and deft touch, author...
Novel Ideas
Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Novel Ideas provides a substantial introduction to the elements of fiction followed by in-depth interviews with successful novelists who speak with candor and insight into the complex process by which a novel is made. This edition includes new and updated interviews as well as writing exercises to...
A Story That Matters
A Gratifying Approach to Writing About Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
No matter who you are, your story is a part of something big—the fabric of history and the human experience. Once written and shared, your story will change someone. And that someone is most likely you. A Story that Matters offers an accessible and simplified way to get your stories written. Each...
FLOAT
Becoming Unstuck for Writers
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
FLOAT • Becoming Unstuck for Writers is a writer's handbook.
The FLOAT Approach to becoming unstuck is an invitation to mindful problem-solving and brainstorming. With more than 80 tools, extensive introductory materials, inspiration from published authors, and multiple indexes for easy reference,...
In Search of the Free Individual
The History of the Russian-Soviet Soul
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
"I love life in its living form, life that’s found on the street, in human conversations, shouts, and moans." So begins this speech delivered in Russian at Cornell University by Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. In poetic language, Alexievich traces the origins of...
How to Write Your Personal or Family History
(If You Don't Do It, Who Will?)
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
This is a practical-and encouraging-how-to book from a long-time teacher of personal and family history writing. Katie Funk Wiebe helps beginning memoir writers get started collecting the stories of their lives. She gives hints for recalling distant memories and tracking down family heirlooms. This...
Writing to Heal the Soul
Transforming Grief and Loss Through Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Susan Zimmermann experienced a devastating loss when her first child, Katherine, developed a neurological disorder that left her unable to walk or talk. Faced with her daughter’s disability, Susan struggled with fear, denial, guilt, bitterness, and despair. She began to heal only through writing....
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Leo Tolstoy's fascinating classic treatise on art is as relevant today as it was over one hundred years ago. Highly-readable, often witty, anyone with an interest in the nature of art and its connection to what it is to be human will find this book a treat.
For the first time, this long out-of-print...