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Plan, write and publish your own book... in just two weeks.  Smashing the myth that writing a book is a drawn-out challenge, this practical guide shows you how to achieve a lifetime's goal in as little as fourteen days.  With practical tips on building outlines and fleshing them out, it...

In this book, James A. Inman explores the landscape of the contemporary computers and writing community. Its six chapters engage critical issues, including redefining the community's generally accepted history, connecting its contemporary innovators with its long-standing spirit of innovation, advocating...

*** REVISED & EXPANDED EDITION Does Your Story Beginning Set You Up For Success…or Failure? Beginnings are agonizing to write. So much is at stake. If you start your story in the wrong place, if it’s boring or bogged down by exposition, audiences will abandon...

Every complex product needs to be explained to its users, and technical writers, also known as technical communicators, are the ones who do that job. A growing field, technical writing requires multiple skills, including an understanding of technology, writing ability, and great people skills. Whether...

In this engaging creative writing workbook, novelist and poet Linda Lappin presents a series of insightful exercises to help writers of all genres-literary travel writing, memoir, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction-discover imagery and inspiration in the places they love. Lappin departs from...

This is not a book about writing... This is a book about being a writer. A guide for the self-published writer who wants to be in control of every aspect of the process of creating and publishing fiction or non-fiction. Modern Authors are more than writers... Self-published authors need to...

This book explores the effectiveness of the workshop in the Creative Writing classroom, and looks beyond the question of whether or not the workshop works to address the issue of what an altered pedagogical model might look like. In visualising what else is possible in the workshop space, the sixteen...

Have you ever thought about freelance writing as a way of making some extra money or even turning it into a full-time career or as a stepping stone to writing non-fiction books? If so, Freelance Writing Blueprint is just for you- You’ll learn- How to build your portfolio How to get your first clips...

The Little Black Book of Business Writing is for everyone who writes for business purposes, in the commercial world, the private sector, the trades and the professions. Mark Tredinnick and Geoff Whyte help readers write the kinds of documents that confront them most days at work – letters, emails,...

Taking off from The Creative Writer’s Survival Guide, John McNally’srelentlessly blunt, bracingly cheerful, and immensely helpful map to being a writer, Vivid and Continuousis an equally blunt, cheerful, and helpful map to learning to be a writer. While acknowledging that many fine books cover...

Writing Fiction offers the novice writer engaging and creative activities, making use of insightful, relevant readings from well-known authors to illustrate the techniques presented. This volume makes use of new versions of key chapters from the recent Routledge/Open University textbook Creative...

Do you want to be more creative? Have you dreamed of being a writer? The best place to start is to write. Here are 365 writing prompts to get you started. Do one a day or as many as you like. Go through and do them one by one or flip through and pick and choose. You can start writing today; just click the Buy Now button and get started right away.

With the growth of modern information technology, it is time to re-examine the concept and purpose of writing, and question the long cherished idea that the alphabet stands at the apex of a hierarchy towards which all 'proper' forms of writing must necessarily progress. This beautifully illustrated...

Master the Elements of the Writing Workshop The great paradox of the writing life is that to be a good writer, you must be both interested in the world around you and comfortable working in solitude for hours on end. Fiction Writer's Workshop is designed to help you foster a strong sense of...