Composition category: 2309 books
Words without Walls
Writers on Addiction, Violence, and Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Writing programs in prisons and rehabilitation centers have proven time and again to be transformative and empowering for people in need. Halfway houses, hospitals, and shelters are all fertile ground for healing through the imagination and can often mean the difference for inmates and patients between...
The Everything Guide To Magazine Writing
From Writing Irresistible Queries to Landing Your First Assignment-all You Need to Build a Successful Career
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
by Simon Rose
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
The Working Writer’s Guide examines the professional life of those who have chosen to pursue writing as a career. People often believe that either that all published authors earn millions or that it’s impossible to make a living as a writer. It’s certainly possible to make a living based on...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Memoir
Expert Guidance on Crafting Your Most Meaningful Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Helps readers write memoirs, personal essays, and life stories of every length and type.
by Denis Ledoux
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Your Memoir: Get Started, Keep Going is full of proven ideas and approaches to successfully move you from wanting to write to producing the finished family stories or memoirs you know will be a treasured legacy for your children and grandchildren.
Your Memoir: Get Started will provide motivation...
Bang The Keys
Four Steps to a Lifelong Writing Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Attention aspiring and working writers alike!
Finish your work in four easy steps with this explosion of inspiration.
How can aspiring writers-whether aiming for a short story, novel, or play-gain the confidence they need to follow through on their creative visions The answer can be...
Journey of Memoir
The Three Stages of Memoir Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
In Journey of Memoir you will find lessons on how to write a great scene; information on the difference between freewriting and outlining, and why you need both; timeline and turning point exercises to help create structure; and much more. This unique workbook gives you the tools you need to begin, develop, and complete your memoir.
The Art of Nonfiction
A Guide for Writers and Readers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
A remarkable series of lectures on the art of creating effective nonfiction by one of the 20th century's most profound writers and thinkers--now available for the first time in print.
Culled from sixteen informal lectures Ayn Rand delivered to a select audience in the late 1960s, this remarkable...
by Longinus
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
The word “style” has become a weariness to think upon; so much is said, so much is printed about the art of expression, about methods, tricks, and turns; so many people, without any long experience, set up to be judges of style, on the strength of having admired two or three modern and often rather...
Four Seasons of Creative Writing
1,000 Prompts to Stop Writer's Block
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Have You Ever Had Writer's Block? Do Want a Book That Could Keep It Away for Good?
Writing prompts are questions and hypothetical situations that are able to cure writer's block instantly. This book gives you exactly one thousand idea-generating prompts that focus on the coldest, warmest,...
How I Found the Write Path
A Compilation of Letters
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
In this endearing compilation, over sixty authors share letters written to their past selves, candidly sharing what they might not always discuss in public. The hope is that those of you who haven’t published will learn from their experiences. And those of you who have published? Well, you just might realize you’re not alone.
Tapping the Well Within
Writing from Your Source of Effortless Creativity, Deep Wisdom, and Utter Joy
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
How to Write
Advice and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Uniquely fusing practical advice on writing with his own insights into the craft, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes constructs beautiful prose about the issues would-be writers are most afraid to articulate: How do I dare write? Where do I begin? What do I do with this story I have to tell...
Let the Crazy Child Write!
Finding Your Creative Writing Voice
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Twelve lively, in-depth chapters reveal how following our untrained impulses — our creative unconscious or "Crazy Child" — gives an authentic grasp on writing stories, poems, plays, and essays. Let the Crazy Child Write! introduces exercises that explicitly tap this knowledge and also...