Writing category: 7965 books
by J.M. Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2013
Last year, I published a book of writing prompts to help jumpstart muses and get the creative juices flowing. Many of the prompts that didn’t make the cut in that book were salacious, to say the least. As an erotica writer, I sometimes like to think outside my own boundaries and try to tackle the...
Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught?
Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy (10th anniversary edition)
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Revised and updated throughout, this 10th-anniversary edition of Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught? is a significantly expanded guide to key issues and practices in creative writing teaching today.
Challenging the myths of creative writing teaching, experienced and up-and-coming teachers...
The Art of Slow Writing
Reflections on Time, Craft, and Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
In a series of conversational observations and meditations on the writing process, The Art of Slow Writing examines the benefits of writing slowly. DeSalvo advises her readers to explore their creative process on deeper levels by getting to know themselves and their stories more fully over a longer...
Environmental and Nature Writing
A Writer's Guide and Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Offering guidance on writing poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, Environmental and Nature Writing is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing about the environment in a wide range of genres. With discussion questions and writing prompts throughout, Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writers'...
Writing & Selling Short Stories & Personal Essays
The Essential Guide to Getting Your Work Published
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Write It Short, Sell It Now
Short stories and personal essays have never been hotter--or more crucial for a successful writing career. Earning bylines in magazines and literary journals is a terrific way to get noticed and earn future opportunities in both short- and long-form writing.
Writing...
Writing Routes
A Resource Handbook of Therapeutic Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
The use of creative writing as a route to personal or professional development is a powerful therapeutic tool, yet often the most difficult part is knowing how and where to begin. The experiences of others, and the strategies and approaches they have used in their own writing, can provide tried-and-tested...
by K. Collins
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Statistics shows that 81% of people want to write their own book someday. Sadly, not everybody was able to fulfill that lifelong dream. Are you one of them? Do you want to write a book but don't know where to start? Have you been trying to get serious about writing your book, but can't seem to make...
Writing against the Curriculum
Anti-Disciplinarity in the Writing and Cultural Studies Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Writing against the Curriculum responds to the growing popularity of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID) programs in universities and colleges across the United States. Many of these schools employ both an "Introduction to Writing" course and a subsequent...
Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing
Threshold Concepts to Guide the Literary Writing Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
The creative writing workshop has existed since the early part of the 20th century, but does it adequately serve the students who come to it today? While the workshop is often thought of as a form of student-centered pedagogy, it turns out that workshop conversations serve to marginalize a range of...
Everyone Can Write
Essays toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2000
With Writing without Teachers (OUP 1975) and Writing with Power (OUP 1995) Peter Elbow revolutionized the teaching of writing. His process method--and its now commonplace "free writing" techniques--liberated generations of students and teachers from the emphasis on formal principles of grammar that...
The Power of Writing
Dartmouth '66 in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
At the 1966 Dartmouth Seminar, scholars gathered to debate the direction of English Studies in the academy. This debate had far-reaching effects and arguably forever changed writing instruction in the United States. To commemorate the 45th anniversary of this gathering, Dartmouth College hosted an...
by Frances Booth
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
This is an essential handbook for every writer, covering the barriers and blocks writers face throughout their writing journey.
If you’ve hit a block, it will help you get productive, recapture the joy of writing and get your story out to the world.
If you’ve always wanted to write...
by John Scalzi
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
There are books which claim to teach you how to write. This book is about the writing life: The business of writing. The day-to-day existence of a professional writer. The ways writers interact with other writers. The things writers do to help themselves out -- and the things they do to trip themselves...
by Joseph Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
*This Writing Life: A Writer Writes On!* is the third of Joseph Sutton’s books on writing. This is not your run-of-the-mill writing book. It’s different because Sutton, a writer of almost 50 years, is a staunch cheerleader for beginning and unknown writers. He believes that any writer who takes...