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by Robert Masello
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2005
The 101 Rules You Need to Know
*but no one has ever told you
You already have a million writing books. You know the principles, the lectures, the "expert" techniques. And you've discovered that sometimes tried-and-true just equals tired.
In Robert's Rules of Writing, successful...
Write Starts
Prompts, Quotes, and Exercises to Jumpstart Your Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
Even dedicated and experienced writers need what author and writing coach Hal Zina Bennett provides: a fresh, fun, surefire place to start. In this handy resource, practiced and aspiring writers alike will find inspiration and initiative in the form of prompts for brief writing exercises, story prompts...
by Kim Brittingham
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
If you want to put your life story down in words, where do you start? Exactly what story are you hoping to tell? How are you going to fill hundreds of pages? How do you plan it out? Memoirist, blogger, and writing teacher Kim Brittingham shares her insight into getting started with your writing and...
by Becca Puglisi, Angela Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
The bestselling Emotion Thesaurus, often hailed as “the gold standard for writers” and credited with transforming how writers craft emotion, has now been expanded to include 55 new entries!
One of the biggest struggles for writers is how to convey emotion to readers in a unique and compelling...
Writing Active Hooks Book 1: Action, Emotion, Surprise and More
Writing Active Hooks, #1
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Many writers have heard of hooks, and have heard we should use them in our manuscripts as a tool to engage readers and keep them engaged, but what we’re not told is how to identify what a hook is or where to use them to maximize them other than in that key opening line.
In this book we’ll look...
Create A Character Clinic
Holly Lisle's Writing Clinics, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
How do you invent great story people?
Readers fall in love with good characters,
while writers wreck their characters in countless ways.
Skip the wreckage. Learn to create characters your readers will love, and that you'll have fun writing.
Use this simple, step-by-step system...
by Jessica Bell
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Have you been told there's a little too much telling in your novel? Want to remedy it? Then this is the book for you!
In Show & Tell in a Nutshell: Demonstrated Transitions from Telling to Showing you will find sixteen real scenes depicting a variety of situations, emotions, and characteristics...
Master Lists for Writers
Thesauruses, Plots, Character Traits, Names, and More
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Get inspired...stay inspired. Write faster...write more! MASTER LISTS FOR WRITERS makes “show, don’t tell” much easier and helps you figure out your story more quickly. In this book, you’ll find: • lists of phrases for describing facial expressions, body language,...
by Dianna Love, Mary Buckham
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Written by a New York Times bestseller Dianna Love and USA Today bestseller Mary Buckham, Break Into Fiction® is a workshop-in-a-book and the one resource all writers need to master the art of fiction.
Getting a book published is hard enough, but what about building a loyal reader base? ...
Gotta Read It!
Five Simple Steps to a Fiction Pitch that Sells
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Blurbs, product descriptions, query letters… no matter what you call them, they’re a chore to write. And yet the success of any novel can depend on its pitch. What’s an author to do? In this short, instructive ebook, Libbie Hawker takes the pain out of pitch-writing and shares the secrets...
How to Write a Novel
47 Rules for Writing a Stupendously Awesome Novel That You Will Love Forever
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013
The most important thing to know about writing a novel is this: You can do it. And if you've already written one, you can write an even better one. Author and former literary agent Nathan Bransford shares his secrets for creating killer plots, fleshing out your first ideas, crafting compelling characters,...
The Plot Skeleton
a practical, bare boned approach that works for children's books, short stories, novels, screenplays, and storytellers
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
If you were sitting in a room with twenty other people, at first glance you might think they are quite different. After all, people come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. But if you were to put on x-ray glasses and look at those same people's skeletons, unless one of them had an abnormality, they...
by Roz Morris
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
'A perfect primer on character creation' - Mars Dorian
'Great foundational tool' - KM Weiland, speculative fiction author and writing coach
'Nail Your Novel is on my shortlist of indispensable writing books' - Lisa Cron, author of Wired For Story
How do you create characters who...
by H. C. Bunner
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
The good ship sped on her way across the calm Atlantic. It was an outward passage, according to the little charts which the company had charily distributed, but most of the passengers were homeward bound, after a summer of rest and recreation, and they were counting the days before they might hope...