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Start to Write: Break Free from Rules, Overcome Your Fear, and Start Writing Today
Step-by-Step Guides for Growing Writers, #2
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
You want to write.
Maybe you leave story ideas on post-it notes all over the house (or your office, or your car, or stuck to your neighbor’s dog). You frantically whisper notes into your phone while you wait in line at the DMV. You might even schedule a four-hour block of time, set yourself...
Sustainable Creativity
How to Enjoy a Committed, Long-term Relationship with your Muse
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
We generally associate creativity with spasms of brilliance even though waiting for inspiration is like waiting for lightning to strike—it happens, but it’s rarely predictable or repeatable.
Committed, long-term relationships don’t simply happen: more than just hard work, it takes discipline...
by Rachelle Ayala
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Romance Writers, do you want to:
Keep your name in front of your readers with more releases and titles?
Learn why you should write shorter in order to write quicker?
Meet and exceed your yearly writing goals?
Participate in multi-author boxed sets for increased visibility and profit?
Claim your fair...
This Is Not a Writing Manual
Notes for the Young Writer in the Real World
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Real-world writing advice, minus all the lectures.
You're an aspiring writer. Maybe you've just discovered your love of words and dream of being a novelist someday. Maybe you've been filling notebooks with science-fiction stories since middle school. Maybe you're contemplating a liberal arts degree,...
True to Life
Fifty Steps to Help You Write Your Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2014
In fifty informative and inspiring steps, Beth Kaplan shows you how to write your story by putting on your writer's hat, then your editor's hat, then digging down to bring out the vital details of the story, and finally living the writing life. Steps include:
Read Like a Writer
Unleash the "I" Word
Claim Your Truth
Write from Scars, Not Wounds
Enter the Marketplace
by Michael Dolan
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2011
Hey, lighten up! And help your customers and co-workers have a little fun too. There's nothing like Funny Business available anywhere (that's why we wrote it). Find out how to put humor in your writing – and get away with it! Memos, letters, social media – make it all a little funnier.Here's...
Writers on Writing: Volume 1
Writers on Writing, #1
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
Learn the craft of writing from those who know it best.
This is Writers On Writing – An Author’s Guide, where your favorite authors share their secrets in the ultimate guide to becoming – and being – an author.
In this first volume you’ll find in-depth essays from authors...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel, 2nd Edition
Make Your Dream of Writing a Novel Come True
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
A completely updated guide for first-time novelists.
Completely revised to include new interviews with best-selling authors; more detailed information on writing genre fiction from paranormal romance to cozy mysteries; and everything a writer needs to know about self-publishing and eBooks to...
Beginner's Guide to Writing and Self-Publishing Romance eBooks
New Romance Writer Series
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Are You Missing Out on the Indie Publishing Revolution? Tell us a love story! Writing Romance Novels in the 21st Century!
This book is a simple beginner’s guide for YOU to get started immediately writing and publishing your first (or next) romance ebook. I want to make the process simpler for you...
Looking Back, Moving On
Memoir as Prologue (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2003
It takes courage and perseverance to revisit the days and nights of our lives and write down what we find to make a record of our lives. Looking Back, Moving On provides the guide to begin the adventure and helps us through the pleasures and pitfalls, the joys and the sorrows that may be encountered....
Clear and Simple as the Truth
Writing Classic Prose - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
For more than a decade, Clear and Simple as the Truth has guided readers to consider style not as an elegant accessory of effective prose but as its very heart. Francis-Noël Thomas and Mark Turner present writing as an intellectual activity, not a passive application of verbal skills. In classic...
How We Made Our First Million on Kindle
The Shelfless Book
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
We sold 347 eBooks in January of 2011. In just six months, by July 2011, we were selling 65,000 eBooks a month. From that modest beginning, by 2011s end, we had sold over 400,000 eBooks. This book will give you the details on how we did that and built a seven-figure indie publishing house in just...
One Continuous Mistake
Four Noble Truths for Writers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Based on the Zen philosophy that we learn more from our failures than from our successes, One Continuous Mistake teaches a refreshing new method for writing as spiritual practice.
In this unique guide for writers of all levels, Gail Sher—a poet who is also a widely respected teacher of creative...
by Peter Elbow
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 1998
In Writing Without Teachers, well-known advocate of innovative teaching methods Peter Elbow outlines a practical program for learning how to write. His approach is especially helpful to people who get "stuck" or blocked in their writing, and is equally useful for writing fiction, poetry,...