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The Mindful Writer
Noble Truths of the Writing Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Going beyond the typical "how to write" book, The Mindful Writer illuminates the creative process: where writing and creativity originate, how mindfulness plays into work, how to cultivate good writing habits, how to grow as a writer and a person, and what it means to live a life dedicated to the...
The Great Spring
Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
From beloved writing teacher and author of the best-selling Writing Down the Bones: a treasury of personal stories reflecting a life filled with journeys—inner and outer—zigzagging around the world and home again.
Here, Natalie Goldberg, "a writer both energized and enlightened"...
Now Write! Mysteries
Suspense, Crime, Thriller, and Other Mystery Fiction Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
The essential handbook for writers of whodunits, techno- thrillers, cozies, and everything in between-featuring never-before- published personal writing exercises from some of today's bestselling and award-winning mystery writers.
Now Write! Mysteries, the fourth volume in the acclaimed Now...
by K.M. Weiland
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
2 Bestselling Guides Packed With Tips to Help You Brainstorm and Plan Your Best Story
From Award-Winning and Internationally Published Writing Mentor K.M. Weiland
With over 300 pages of step-by-step guidance, these two individual books have helped thousands of authors write better books.
Can...
Writing Subtext
How to craft subtext that develops characters, boosts suspense, and reinforces theme
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
Subtext is one of the most elusive and powerful elements of craft. Literally meaning what lies beneath the text, it is an undercurrent, a hidden agenda, a vibe, a reinforcement of theme—and it exists in what is implied but not explicitly spelled out. It has impact because what you don’t say is...
Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy
Advice and Confessions on Writing, Love, and Cannibals
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy,
I have a hot crush on the em dash. What does my need to stuff—while simultaneously fracturing—my sentences—with the meandering, the explanatory, the discursive, the perhaps not-entirely-necessary—say about me?
—Cheryl Strayed
Have you ever wished there...
Dinosaur Discovery
Brush Up on Your Writing Skills
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 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,...
A Story That Matters
A Gratifying Approach to Writing About Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
No matter who you are, your story is a part of something big—the fabric of history and the human experience. Once written and shared, your story will change someone. And that someone is most likely you. A Story that Matters offers an accessible and simplified way to get your stories written. Each...
Writing Screenplays That Sell, New Twentieth Anniversary Edition
The Complete Guide to Turning Story Concepts into Movie and Television Deals
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
For more than twenty years, Writing Screenplays That Sell has been hailed as the most complete guide available on the art, craft, and business of writing for movies and television. Now fully revised and updated to reflect the latest trends and scripts, Hollywood story expert and script consultant...
Crafting Novels & Short Stories
The Complete Guide to Writing Great Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Learn How to Create Stories That Captivate Agents, Editors, and Readers Alike!
Inside you'll find the tools you need to build strong characters, keep your plots moving, master the art of dialogue, choose the right point of view, and more.
This comprehensive book on the art of novel and short...
by Les Edgerton
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
You know a great literary "voice" when you hear it: David Sedaris' humorous cynicism. Elmore Leonard's weary, smart-mouthed dialogue. Nick Hornby's simple yet imaginative descriptions. It's the kind of writing you should aspire to, right?
Well...not quite. Each of these authors found...
Writing Active Hooks Book 1: Action, Emotion, Surprise and More
Writing Active Hooks, #1
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Many writers have heard of hooks, and have heard we should use them in our manuscripts as a tool to engage readers and keep them engaged, but what we’re not told is how to identify what a hook is or where to use them to maximize them other than in that key opening line.
In this book we’ll look...
by James Scott Bell
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
It's the best time on Earth to be a writer.
More writers are making money today than at any other time in history. For centuries few have been able to support themselves from the quill or the keyboard alone.
Not anymore. With the rise of ebooks and indie publishing there are now more...
Writing From Life
How to turn your personal experience into profitable prose
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
This book will show you how your own personal experiences can provide you with an endless supply of ideas for your writing - whether fiction or non-fiction. You will learn how to write about what you know - and you certainly know a lot. The good news is that the older you are, and the older you get,...