Writing Skills category: 1537 books

Empower your writing through craft and community! Writing can be a lonely profession plagued by blind stumbles, writer's block, and despair--but it doesn't have to be. Written by members of the popular Writer Unboxed website, Author in Progress is filled with practical, candid essays to help...

Academic Writing and Publishing will show academics (mainly in the social sciences) how to write and publish research articles. Its aim is to supply examples and brief discussions of recent work in all aspects of the area in short, sharp chapters. It should serve as a handbook for postgraduates and...

Join the New Adult Fiction revolution! From Sylvia Day's Bared to You to Jamie McGuire's Beautiful Disaster, new adult fiction has arrived--and it's hotter than ever. But there's more to this category than its 18-to-26-year-old characters: The success of your story depends on authentically...

REVISED APRIL 2018: Who do you go to for answers to your most pressing writing and publishing questions? It’s an exciting time to dive into publishing. But writing can still be a confusing and even a lonely job. What if you had an experienced published author friend that you could call on at a moment’s...

The definitive choice in how-to get published books, A Writer’s Guide to Getting Published in Magazines covers the topics every aspiring magazine writer must know in order to achieve success, including: Deciding your target audience and what magazines you want to approach; How to do your article...

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? ...

A Step-by-Step, Quick and Easy Guide to Writing a Master's Thesis or DissertationEverything you need to know about the structure of a master's dissertation is contained in this short guide. An outline of the different chapters you'll need to include is provided, and each section is...

Writers flock to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) each November because it provides a procrastination-busting deadline. But only a fraction of the participants meet their goal. Denise Jaden was part of that fraction, writing first drafts of two subsequently published novels in that tight time...

TELL YOUR STORY! Any one can start a book. Finishing it is the goal. Like most goals, it can seem impossible to reach. Especially if you want to deliver a quality product that people will recommend to their friends. All published authors will tell you one thing—there is no one way to the...

Whether you are composing a Web page on the Internet or agonizing over an annual budget report, these books are the key to clarity, accuracy, and economy in any writing task. Explores the essentials of solid, point-based paragraphs, with chapters on unifying each paragraph around one point,...

Want to get published and paid for your writing? Let Writer's Market 2019 guide you through the process with thousands of publishing opportunities for writers, including listings for book publishers, consumer and trade magazines, contests and awards, and literary agents--as well as new playwriting...

Do you envy prolific writers who seem to pump out multiple novels per year while you struggle to finish one or two? Are you already fairly prolific and want to become more so? Are you a pantser who suffers from writer's block and finds plotting abhorrent? Or are you a...

The Mega Prompt Book is a book for all writers of every genre. It includes over 600 writing prompts and the articles "40 Ways to Beat Writers Block" and "7 Obstacles to Writing and How to Overcome Them."