Writing category: 7965 books
The Cup Cake
Brush Up on Your Writing Skills
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
The ‘Creative Writing Tutor’ scheme provides a lively series of themed booklets that will stimulate your child’s imagination and inspire him or her to write in a more interesting way and to achieve better results. The booklets provide ‘a tutor’ for the child, fun features and stories to read,...
by Bryan Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Writer on the Side is a time management, positive thinking, long-term goal creating, personal effectiveness improving, success manual for the author wannabe trapped in a 9 to 5 (or some other exceptionally long time-frame) line of work. Just because you have to pay the bills does not mean that you...
by Richard A. Lanham
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
“A necessary manual for those interested in the perpetuation, and the possibilities, of good English prose.”—Harper’s Magazine
“[Lanham’s] style is notable for its audacity, liveliness, and grace.”—The Times Literary Supplement
“The most applicably provocative book...
The Yahoo! Style Guide: Writing for an Online Audience
Writing for an Online Audience
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Previously published as part of The Yahoo! Style Guide.
WWW may be an acronym for the World Wide Web, but no one could fault you for thinking it stands for wild, wild West. The rapid growth of the Web has meant having to rely on style guides intended for print publishing, but these guides do not address...
Telling True Stories
A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Interested in journalism and creative writing and want to write a book? Read inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists.
The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism....
by Gilda Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
An essential handbook for students and professionals on writing eloquently, accurately, and originally about contemporary art
How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, arts professionals and other aspiring...
On Writing
A Memoir Of The Craft
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2000
Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King’s critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work.
“Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication...
by J.M. Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Writing prompts are a great way to jumpstart your muse and get the creative juices flowing. Sometimes you want to write and don’t really know what to write about, and prompts can help guide you into a new story.
This collection of 366 writing prompts can be used daily throughout the year...
5,000 WRITING PROMPTS
A Master List of Plot Ideas, Creative Exercises, and More
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2019
5,000 Writing Prompts is the must-have resource for novelists, short story writers, screenwriters, poets, creative writing teachers, bloggers, memoir writers, improv actors, and other creators and storytellers.
It includes…
150 plot ideas for each of these genres: fantasy, science...
by Anne Janzer
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Have you ever wondered what makes your favorite nonfiction books so compelling, understandable, or enjoyable to read? Those works connect with you, as a reader.
When you recognize what's happening, you can apply those same methods to your own writing.
Writing To Be Understood is the...
by Catherine Kolecki
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
Tongue-in-cheek title notwithstanding, this book is a powerful entry-level pathway to a successful technical writing career. Let me help you cut through the morass of how-to books. With this simple primer, you'll learn how to assess a process, interview subject matter experts, and convert raw...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Food writing has exploded in the past decade; nowhere else is it as easy and enjoyable to catch the trends, big stories, and upcoming stars than in the annual Best Food Writing collection. From molecular gastronomy to the omnivore's dilemma, from meat-free to wheat-free to everything goes, there's...
For Writers Only
Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
"I see but one rule: to be clear." Stendhal
If only it were as easy for most writers as it was for Stendhal. The truth about the act of writing is much more varied, even violent. In fact, there seem to be as many contradictory admonitions about how to go about doing it as there are writers...
Your Creative Writing Masterclass
featuring Austen, Chekhov, Dickens, Hemingway, Nabokov, Vonnegut, and more than 100 Contemporary and Classic Authors
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." - Anton Chehkov
If you dream of being a writer, why not learn from the best? In Your Creative Writing Masterclass you'll find ideas, techniques and encouragement from the most admired and respected contemporary...