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Your dream is to write a book, get it published, and then have people read what you have written. It may be a novel or a non-fiction work. But you don’t know where to start. Or doors are slammed in your face every way you turn. Publishing houses ignore you. Agents reject you without comment. You...

Readers pick up nonfiction books to learn something. They pick up novels to feel something: love, fear, joy, grief, elation, frustration, happiness, desperation, anger, despair, determination . . . or all of the above. We write novels to give readers a vicarious emotional experience. They want to...

Have you ever felt overwhelmed of how much information and how many full-length books there are about writing? Have you ever bought several books on writing, thinking they will make you write better and/or faster, but instead you read and read and push away the time your should spend writing?...

Have you ever felt overwhelmed of how much information and how many full-length books there are about writing? Have you ever bought several books on writing, thinking they will make you write better and/or faster, but instead you read and read and push away the time your should spend writing? ...

Every good romance novel begins the same way – with a story idea. Yet compelling story ideas aren’t always easy to come by. Sometimes we all need a little inspiration – a spark that ignites our imaginations and excites the writing muses.S1001 Romance Story Starters" covers myriad genres,...

Want to become more creative?Creativity is essential for writers.In this book we'll aim to increase our creativity to unlock your imagination and build the writing career of your dreams. New writer? This book will help you to avoid the missteps all writers experience when they're...

Learning to write eye-catching tweet-length lede paragraphs (140-characters, 20-25 words) that draw in your readers is the key to writing great news and feature stories. The technique can be applied to print, online or on-air stories. Whether you are a blogger, news writer or novelist -- or someone...

In The Center Will Hold, Pemberton and Kinkead have compiled a major volume of essays on the signal issues of scholarship that have established the writing center field and that the field must successfully address in the coming decade. The new century opens with new institutional, demographic, and...

From Story Idea to Reader is an easily accessible guide to writing fiction. Whether you are brushing up on your writing skills or starting out, this book will take you through the whole process from inspiration to conclusion. No matter if you are looking to submit your work for publication, enter...

Writing Warrior isn’t for all writers. It’s for each artistic scribe who is struggling to create more time, create many masterpieces, and enjoy the meaningful life from a thriving creative career. The mission of this title is to help you invest your time on writing work that you can publish...

To write is a verb. That's an action word. No more procrastination. Almost everybody thinks they have a book in them or dreams of seeing their name on a front cover, but not everyone knows how to go about it. Sharing all she's learned so far, Fiona McIntosh, one of Australia's most successful commercial...

The many books on writing and communicating that claim to be everything to everybody fail simply because they are overwhelmingly complex, full of jargon and useless labels and distinctions such as participial phrase as opposed to gerund phrase, or transitive verb versus intransitive verb. Most of...

Table of Contents Introduction Letter Writing Etiquette Clarity of Communication Keep It Brief (KIB) Tips Before You Send Your Letter Check for Accuracy Proper Spelling aka English as is “Spiked.” Careful about the Titles… Correcting your boss’s Grammar Tone of Your Business Letter I...

Make them take notice when you write. You can write better – whether you are a beginner or the office pro. Learn the universal format for writing anything. Featuring favorite New Yorker cartoons. – This updated edition features a new chapter on Social Media– The fun writing guidebook...