Writing Skills category: 1537 books

When you need a nudge to get your creative juices flowing, writing prompts are the solution. Whether you are tired of staring at a blank page or are looking for something different to write about, the following 300 prompts will get you going.

All the signs show that the worthy art of letter writing is in decline. One third of 16-year-olds have never written a letter, and in the next ten years it is predicted that first-class mail will drop by 37%. Emails and texts have overtaken the humble pen and paper as the most popular method of communication....

BREAK WRITER’S BLOCK NOW! Break it immediately. Break it forever. This short, clear, direct book will do that for you. Just as it’s done for a great many writers already, from a Pulitzer Prize winner to a novelist with multiple books on The New York Times bestseller...

Would You Like to Learn How To Create and Sell Your First 1000 Copies through Books?   This book begins by sharing an overview to make the beginners understand the world of self-publishing. It is followed by a simple & easy guide which beginners can follow in order to write and publish their...

Vivid and memorable characters aren't born: they have to be made This book is a set of tools: literary crowbars, chisels, mallets, pliers and tongs. Use them to pry, chip, yank and sift good characters out of the place where they live in your imagination. Award-winning author Orson Scott...

The Guide to Effective Report Writing outlines a practical method for professionals in a wide range of disciplines to develop and maintain reports that address the needs of the reader and which are expressed in language easily understood by the reader.

Want to learn how to create convincing characters? Want to understand the key elements of a story? Low Kay Hwa is a Singapore best-selling author, having published eleven novels. His novels have reached the bestsellers lists in both bookstore chains and national newspaper, and also...

Create Your Writer's Life offers a coaching approach to develop a writing practice that actually works. Finally, a resource that allows you to do it your way, and that works.

Murder has rules if you want to profit from your crime! Discrning readers expect you to give them what they want and in return they will buy from you again and again. Don't miss this concise rulebook - including the guide to successful cozy mystery writing.

Have you been told there's a little too much telling in your novel? Want to remedy it? Then this is the book for you! In Show & Tell in a Nutshell: Demonstrated Transitions from Telling to Showing you will find sixteen real scenes depicting a variety of situations, emotions, and characteristics...

The Secrets to Writing Great Comedy will show you how to unlock your inner anarchist and write fantastic comedy, using a combination of practical exercises and creative inspiration. Whatever your preferred genre, from sitcom to sketch show, you will fi nd guidance on everything from wordplay and visual...

As most successful writers will tell you, one of the hardest things about writing is getting started. In this collection of articles, Writer, Musician, Hermit, Pie-Maker and Time-Traveller Colin Garrow explores ways of generating ideas, creating characters and developing stories. Using examples from...

This is the first book in a series called The Handy Little Book for Writers Series.The idea of this first Little Book is to get you started on your novel or any book you may have been wanting to write for that matter. Although this book and the series are slanted towards writing a novel, the methods...

The book shows the writer how to analyse methodically certain types of source material for the purpose of using it as both inspiration and guide in the development of imaginative, insightful and credible short story ideas. This material consists of the saying, the fable, the poem, the fairy tale and...