Language Arts category: 28677 books
by Bobby Everett Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
I recently read that over 80% of people in the U. S. want to write a book but most of them don’t do it. I was one of those, but I finally decided to sit down and write, publish, and market my first e-book. I want to share my successes and my mistakes with you to encourage you to get started and...
The Playwright's Process
Learning the Craft from Today's Leading Dramatists
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Here is the first and only manual for playwrights ever designed to draw directly from the wisdom of leading contemporary dramatists. Interwoven with hundreds of quotations from the author's own in-depth interview series at the Dramatists Guild, in New York City, The Playwright's Process offers a fresh...
Masterclass: Writing Plays
How to create realistic and compelling drama and get your work performed
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Writing Plays is the invaluable and comprehensive guide to anyone who wants to write plays and get them performed.
It covers the basics of the theatre, creating and working with characters, writing realistic speech and dialogue, constructing compelling plots and creating a great ending. There...
by Jane Hertenstein
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Many of us are looking to write memories—either in the form of literary memoir or simply to record family history. This how-to book looks at memoir in small, bite-size pieces, helping the writer to isolate or freeze-frame a moment and then distill it onto paper.Jane Hertenstein is the author...
by Peter Kurth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson by Peter Kurth (197,000 words, 83 illustrations)
Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961) was America’s first internationally famous female foreign correspondent. Born outside of Buffalo, New York, she graduated from Syracuse University in 1914 and honed...
by Alan Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
A fiction writer's resource for creating realistic, convincing fight scenes.Author and martial arts instructor, Alan Baxter, presents a short, ~12,000 word, ebook describing all the things a writer needs to consider when writing fight scenes. Baxter's experience from decades as a...
How To Write Dialogue That Sparkles: The Key To Writing Better Novels & Screenplays
How To Write, #4
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2014
Dialogue cannot be dull, otherwise your novel or screenplay will fail
The secrets to writing a bestseller start with knowing how to write dazzling dialogue. Let editor, author, publisher and critic, Jim Driver show you how dialogue writing should (and can) be fun and easy.
Among the...
Writing for TV and Radio
A Writers' and Artists' Companion
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This essential companion offers invaluable insights and solid, practical guidance to those keen to write for TV and radio.
PART 1 explores the nature of the media. It looks at the history of writing drama and comedy for radio and TV through a consideration of its key elements and some of the...
by Suzanne Romaine
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, Suzanne Romaine's main concern is to show how language and discourse play key roles in understanding and communicating gender and culture. In addition to linguistics--which provides the starting point and central focus of the book--she draws on the fields of anthropology,...
by Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Just how did a dialect spoken by a handful of shepherds in Northern Spain become the world's second most spoken language, the official language of twenty-one countries on two continents, and the unofficial second language of the United States? Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow, the husband-and-wife...
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,...
Writing What You Know
How to Turn Personal Experiences into Publishable Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
It's easy for people to write about their feelings in a journal. It's more difficult, however, to convert personal experiences into stories worthy of publication-fiction, non-fiction, or poetry. Filled with engaging exercises, Write from Life guides writers in identifying story-worthy material and...
The Stuff of Fiction
Advice on Craft
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
In this book, prizewinning novelist and popular creative writing instructor Douglas Bauer (The Book of Famous Iowans) shares the secrets of his trade. Talent, as Bauer acknowledges, is the most crucial element for a writer and cannot be taught. But without a regular habit of work, and a perseverance...
Write Yourself
Creative Writing and Personal Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Write Yourself is the ideal introduction to how to facilitate groups and individuals in finding inspiration for their creative personal writing voices. This book explains how and why writing is such an illuminative, healing, and cathartic process, and provides many practical exercises that encourage...