Writing Skills category: 1537 books
by Laura du Pre
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Want to get into freelance writing? It's a great career, but if you jump in without doing your homework first it could give you headaches. New writers make the same mistakes without realizing it, and the costs to their careers quickly adds up. Inside this short guide, you'll learn how to...
by Morgen Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Over a thousand sentence starts, three per day, with writing tips at the end of each week to motivate and inspire, providing kick-starts to avoid the dreaded ‘writer’s block’. Useful for any writer at any level, whether they have 10 minutes or 10 hours, to start a new project. Also an ideal...
by Walter Mosley
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
No more excuses. "Let the lawn get shaggy and the paint peel from the walls," bestselling novelist Walter Mosley advises. Anyone can write a novel now, and in this essential book of tips, practical advice, and wisdom, Walter Mosley promises that the writer-in-waiting can finish it in one...
Rock Your Revisions
A Simple System for Revising Your Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Do you feel overwhelmed trying to revise your novel?
Faced with a hot mess of rough draft, maybe you feel confused, unsure of what to fix -- or rather, what to fix first!
Editing fiction takes a slightly different mindset than writing the first rough pass of a novel. There are a lot...
Rock Your Plot
A Simple System for Plotting Your Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Are you stuck trying to write a novel?
Have you tried writing several stories, only to stall out in the middle and move on to a new project?
Do you like the idea of plot outlines, but have difficulty figuring out what happens next, or what should happen where?
Or are...
by K.M. Weiland
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Want to take your writing to the next level? Discover the “secrets” of story structure other authors are overlooking!
If you’ve read all the books on story structure and concluded there has to be more to it than just three acts and a couple of plot points, then you’re absolutely right!...
Digital Paper
A Manual for Research and Writing with Library and Internet Materials
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Today’s researchers have access to more information than ever before. Yet the new material is both overwhelming in quantity and variable in quality. How can scholars survive these twin problems and produce groundbreaking research using the physical and electronic resources available in the modern...
by Emerson Kathy Lynn
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The core of the book is Emerson's personal take on writing and selling historical mysteries but it also includes contributions from over forty other historical mystery writers practical advice anecdotes and suggestions for research and input from assorted editors booksellers and reviewers. For both...
by J Lenni Dorner
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
This valuable reference guide is useful in revealing a simplified way to create settings that feel like characters by using an organized sketch sheet. This practical approach will help focus your writing. The challenge of making a setting into a character is easily conquered with this informative...
Marco Polo Didn't Go There
Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Marco Polo Didn’t Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age.” For the past ten years, Rolf Potts has taken his keen postmodern travel sensibility into the far fringes of five continents for such prestigious publications...
Create Your Writer Platform
The Key to Building an Audience, Selling More Books, and Finding Success as an Author
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Creating a platform isn't just beneficial--it's essential!
In today's world of blogging, websites, Twitter feeds, and Facebook updates, building a writer platform from the ground up can seem a daunting task. Never fear--author and editor Chuck Sambuchino provides expert, practical advice for increasing...
Unlock Your Creativity
A 21-day Sensory Workout for Writers
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
"Unlock Your Creativity: a 21-day sensory workout for writers" is the first book in the series co-authored by Sue Johnson and Val Andrews. Unlock Your Creativity begins with exercises to help the reader identify their creative aspirations. It then takes them on a 21-day journey through the senses, showing...
The Promise of Failure
One Writer's Perspective on Not Succeeding
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
The Promise of Failure is part memoir of the writing life, part advice book, and part craft book; sometimes funny, sometimes wrenching, but always honest. McNally uses his own life as a blueprint for the writer’s daily struggles as well as the existential ones, tackling subjects such as when to...
by Kelly Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
For centuries runes have been used as divination tools. However, they were once used as an alphabet for writing. From this juxtaposition of the mystical and practical comes a creative way to overcome writer’s block. Stuck on a scene in your novel? Need to give your characters more dimension? Or...