Writing category: 7965 books
by Ian Mitch
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2011
These books are written and designed to help you teach your child to write in three easy steps:
Step 1: First writing
The two books help your child hold their pen or pencil and follow simple lines and shapes preparing them for letter shapes. Age 4 - 6
Step 2: Early writing
The second...
by Elmore Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
"These are the rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story."—Elmore Leonard
For aspiring writers and lovers of the written word, this concise guide breaks down the writing...
1,000 Creative Writing Prompts, Volume 2
More Ideas for Blogs, Scripts, Stories and More
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Have You Ever Experienced Writer's Block? This Collection Of 1,000 Writing Prompts Is Just What You Need!
"This is a superb, very imaginative book that helps people, writers and non-writers, think of ideas," Israel, 5-star review. "A genuine treasure trove. I will never again complain...
by Alexandra Sokoloff
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
A revised and expanded second volume of award-winning author and screenwriter Alexandra Sokoloff's Screenwriting Tricks For Authors workbook, with a special emphasis on writing love.
Screenwriting is a compressed and dynamic storytelling form and the techniques of screenwriting are easily adaptable...
Writing into the Dark
How to Write a Novel without an Outline
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
With more than a hundred published novels and more than seventeen million copies of his books in print, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith knows how to outline. And he knows how to write a novel without an outline.
In this WMG Writer’s Guide, Dean takes you step-by-step through...
by Brenda Miller, Suzanne Paola
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Five stars for Tell It Slant ... An enlightening, comprehensive, and very satisfying text on writing and shaping creative nonfiction."
--Sheila Bender, editor and publisher of writingitreal.com and author of Writing and Publishing Personal Essays
When the poet Emily Dickinson wrote, "Tell...
Naked, Drunk, and Writing
Shed Your Inhibitions and Craft a Compelling Memoir or Personal Essay
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
The material is right there in front of you. You’ve known yourself for, well, a lifetime—and you finally feel ready to share your story with the world. Yet when it actually comes time to put pen to paper, you find that you’re stumped.
Enter Adair Lara: award-winning author, seasoned columnist,...
by James Scott Bell
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Sell more books and build your career by kicking these blunders to the curb!
Ever wonder why some books shoot to the top of the bestseller lists? And others that you think should, don't? It's usually a matter of mistakes that could have been avoided!
#1 bestselling writing coach James...
Now Write!
Fiction Writing Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2006
A collection of personal writing exercises and commentary from some of today's best novelists, short story writers, and writing teachers, including Jill McCorkle, Amy Bloom, Robert Olen Butler, Steve Almond, Jayne Anne Phillips, Virgil Suarez, Margot Livesay, and more.
What's the secret behind...
by Elizabeth Huff
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Writing is hard work and sooner or later all writers need a little help. The Writing Starter Kit: Mini Edition is a great reference book for writers who need a little extra push to get started. Inside you will find 15 ways to beat writers block, 50 writing prompts, 10 writing forms and their lengths, and a basic outline.
Wretched Writing
A Compendium of Crimes Against the English Language
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Wretched writing is the lowest of the low; it is a felonious assault on the English language. Exuberantly excessive, it is a sin committed often by amateurs and all-too-frequently by gifted writers having an off day. In short, it’s very bad writing. Truly bad. Appallingly bad.
It’s also...
by Robert J Bannon
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
HOW TO WRITE A BOOK ABOUT
WEIGHT LOSS
There are weight loss stories all around us. Every month 11,100,000 searches are conducted on Google for the words “weight loss.” Yes, that’s EVERY month and, yes that is over 120 million searches per year. What percentage of those people need...
Writing a Novel in Five Days While Traveling
The Tricks and Techniques of Writing Fiction While Away From Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
One of the most prolific writers in modern fiction writing shows you how he does it.
Author of over one-hundred-and-fifty novels, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith gives an intimate day-to-day, minute-by-minute account of how he wrote a full novel in five days while traveling.
From...
How Dare We! Write
A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
How Dare We! Write: a multicultural creative writing discourse offers a much needed corrective to the usual dry and uninspired creative writing pedagogy. The collection asks us to consider questions, such as "What does it mean to work through resistance from supposed mentors, to face rejection...