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Teaching Poetry Writing
A Five-Canon Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
Teaching Poetry Writing: A Five Canon Approach is a comprehensive alternative to the full-class workshop approach to poetry writing instruction. In the five canon approach, peer critique of student poems takes place in online environments, freeing up class time for writing exercises and lessons based...
by Marcy Kennedy, Chris Saylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Not your same old boring grammar guide! This book is fun, fast, and focused on writing amazing fiction.
The world of grammar is huge, but fiction writers don’t need to know all the nuances to write well. In fact, some of the rules you were taught in English class will actually hurt your fiction...
The Imaginative Argument
A Practical Manifesto for Writers - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
More than merely a writing text, The Imaginative Argument offers writers instruction on how to use their imaginations to improve their prose. Cioffi shows writers how they can enliven argument--the organizing rubric of all persuasive writing--by drawing on emotion, soul, and creativity, the wellsprings...
by Sarah Woods
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
In this book, award-winning travel writer Sarah Woods answers the question she is asked several hundred times each year: 'how do I become a freelance travel writer?' She offers practical advice on turning the dream into reality - from getting started to making a decent living. Sarah shares her tips...
Masterclass: Writing Crime Fiction
How to create compelling plots, dramatic characters and nail biting twists in crime and detective fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Do you have an idea for a gripping crime novel?
Would you like to know how to plot your book flawlessly?
Do you want to create beautifully crafted characters and nail biting twists?
This book is designed for anyone who wants to write an unputdownable crime novel. Whatever your subgenre, whether...
by Michael Stover
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
Have you ever wanted to improve your writing skills? Why is it important to write well? It seems like a silly question, but our writings precede us. When applying for a job we must submit a resume’ and sometimes a cover letter. Or how about when sending e-mails to someone we don’t know well or...
The Everything Writing Poetry Book
A Practical Guide To Style, Structure, Form, And Expression
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
'Poetry is what gets lost in translation.' --Robert Frost
Giving voice to ''what gets lost in translation'' is the challenge every poet faces. With The Everything Writing Poetry Book, that challenge just got easier. Featuring examples from works of celebrated poets and instruction on communicating...
The Weekend Novelist Writes a Mystery
From Empty Page to Finished Mystery in Just 52 Weekends--A Dynamic Step-by-Step Program
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Like Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, Sara Paretsky and Thomas Harris, you, too, can learn the trade secrets of quality detective fiction.
It's true. Just one year from now, you can deliver a completed mystery novel to a publisher--by writing only on weekends. Authors Robert J. Ray...
by Lynn McNamee
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Did you write what you meant to write? Is your meaning clear, or will readers misunderstand?
This style guide helps authors to make sure their writing is clear on the sentence level. “Just to Be Clear: Writing What You Mean” covers the following topics:
Dangling Participles
Misused...
Writer to Writer
From Think to Ink
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Bestselling author of Ella Enchanted and fairy-tale master Gail Carson Levine shares her secrets of great writing in this companion to the popular Writing Magic.
Have you ever wanted to captivate readers with a great opening, create spectacular and fantastical creatures, make up an entire country,...
Looking at Peoples Lives
Brush Up on Your Writing Skills
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 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...
by Jaime Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
"A fast, fun, and informative guide on how to create your own world. Now if Jaime would only write a guide on how to rule your creations gently!" - DAVID FARLAND
Every story requires worldbuilding.
What if there was a way to simplify the process of worldbuilding? A system that...
by Susan Palmquist
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Learn how to-
Write a Tagline
Chapter one includes exercises to help you create an eye catching tagline that will sum up your book in just one sentence.
Write a Blurb
Want to pen...
How to Write Fiction
Busy Writer's Guides Set 2
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
Three bestselling writing resources in one set!
Experienced fiction editor Marcy Kennedy’s has put three of her popular Busy Writer’s Guides together. Dialogue, point of view, and description are foundational skills you need to master to create vivid fiction that balances your character’s...