Writing Skills category: 1537 books
How To Write Dialogue That Sparkles: The Key To Writing Better Novels & Screenplays
How To Write, #4
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2014
Dialogue cannot be dull, otherwise your novel or screenplay will fail
The secrets to writing a bestseller start with knowing how to write dazzling dialogue. Let editor, author, publisher and critic, Jim Driver show you how dialogue writing should (and can) be fun and easy.
Among the...
Heinlein's Rules
Five Simple Business Rules for Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
With more than a hundred published novels and more than seventeen million copies of his books in print, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith follows five simple business rules for writing fiction. And now, he shares how those rules helped shape his successful career.
In this WMG Writer’s...
by Bill Stenson
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Finally, Memoir Writing For Smart People, a book that tells you all you need to know in order to publish your own personal or corporate Memoir. Written by Bill Stenson, a writer, a teacher of writing and manager of Canadian Memoirs. Bill guides people in the writing of their Memoirs, but this book...
by Victoria Mixon
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Mixon's most popular posts on her award-winning writing blog, A. Victoria Mixon, Editor are now available for the first time in her new book, Secret Advice for Writers.Mixon's blog is a Top 10 Blog for Writers, Top 20 Blog for Writers, and Writer's Digest 101 Best Websites for...
Writing Life Stories
How To Make Memories Into Memoirs, Ideas Into Essays And Life Into Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays, and Life into Literature
From drawing a map of a remembered neighborhood to signing a form releasing yourself to take risks in your work, Roorbach offers innovative techniques that will trigger ideas for all writers.
Writing Life...
by Dan Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
This unpretentious little guide through the perils of writing fiction follows the process through four stages: gathering the raw material, planning, rough draft writing, and revision.
Novelist Dan Brown shares not only his own experience but also the thoughts of many classic masters of fiction.
Teachers...
by Simon Rose
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
The Working Writer’s Guide examines the professional life of those who have chosen to pursue writing as a career. People often believe that either that all published authors earn millions or that it’s impossible to make a living as a writer. It’s certainly possible to make a living based on...
Writing Your Legacy
The Step-by-Step Guide to Crafting Your Life Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Craft a meaningful life story!
A written legacy of your life--one that encompasses experiences, lessons learned, failures and triumphs--is a gift your family and friends will cherish for years to come. Writing this story may seem daunting, but it doesn't have to be. Writing Your Legacy is a...
The Secrets of Story
Innovative Tools for Perfecting Your Fiction and Captivating Readers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
You've just boarded a plane. You've loaded your phone with your favorite podcasts, but before you can pop in your earbuds, disaster strikes: The guy in the next seat starts telling you all about something crazy that happened to him--in great detail. This is the unwelcome storyteller, trying to convince...
The Six Senses in a Nutshell
Demonstrated Transitions from Bleak to Bold Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Revised 2019 Edition
Have readers told you that they can’t seem “get into” your novel? That could be because it lacks the sensory information required to effectively hook your readers’ attention. Would you like to remedy this? Then this is the book for you.
In The Six Senses...
The Writer's Diet
A Guide to Fit Prose
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Do your sentences sag? Could your paragraphs use a pick-me-up? If so, The Writer’s Diet is for you! It’s a short, sharp introduction to great writing that will help you energize your prose and boost your verbal fitness.
Helen Sword dispenses with excessive explanations and overwrought analysis....
Risk in Academic Writing
Postgraduate Students, their Teachers and the Making of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This book brings together a variety of voices – students and teachers, journal editors and authors, writers from the global north and south – to interrogate the notion of risk as it applies to the production of academic writing. Risk-taking is viewed as a productive force in teaching, learning...
by EJ Divitt
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Do you want to write but don't know where to start? Are you looking to break free of writer's block? This book is for you.With a unique writing prompt for every day of the year--including leap day--this book provides hundreds of chances to stretch your creativity and write more.Get in touch with your inner author and get those creative muscles flexing with these prompts.
by Dirk Dupon
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Attention all aspiring work from home freelance writers, looking to build a rewarding career...
This book is written for people who are dreaming of setting up and running their own home based writing business, be it part time or full time.
- Do you want to write quality articles and/or...