Writing Skills category: 1537 books
Just Publish! Ebook Creation for Indie Authors
Learn How to Write, Design, Format, Upload, and Sell Your Own Book for Low Cost or Free
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
You've Got A Story Inside You. It Should Cost You Nothing to Make it Into a Book. The premise of this short book is that you don't have to buy or pay anything extra in order to get your story written, published, and selling online.
Learn the 3 Parts to eBook Publishing
How to write...
The Emotional Craft of Fiction
How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
Engage Your Readers with Emotion
While writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel. The reader's experience must be an emotional journey of its own, one as involving...
Structuring Your Novel
Essential Keys for Writing an Outstanding Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Is Structure the Hidden Foundation of All Successful Stories?
Why do some stories work and others don’t? The answer is structure. In this new guide from the author of the acclaimed Outlining Your Novel, you will discover the universal underpinnings that guarantee powerful plot and character...
Elements of The Writing Craft
More Than 150 Lessons for Fiction and Nonfiction Writers
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Great narratives are built piece by piece, through myriad small tasks and careful moves. In this landmark book, Robert Olmstead shows how distinguished writers past and present have built their fiction and nonfiction. Through this writer's-eye analysis of more than 150 of literature's most finely...
Make a Scene
Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2007
Write Scenes that Move Your Story Forward
In Make a Scene, author Jordan E. Rosenfeld takes you through the fundamentals of strong scene construction and explains how other essential fiction-writing techniques, such as character, plot, and dramatic tension, must function within the framework of individual...
by Rebecca Hartley-Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
This EBook is a handy creative writing guide including:*A brief history of the seven deadly sins.*A short explanation of character archetypes and how to use them.*A set of useable archetypes to inspire the creation of new characters.
by O'Neil De Noux
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
How to write –
a novel,
a short story,
great opening lines,
characters, conflict, plot,
titles, theme, point of view, person,
setting, dialogue, show – don’t tell,
structural devices, outlines, critiquing,
and the professionals of selling stories and novels.
Pep Talks for Writers
52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Every writer knows that as rewarding as the creative process is, it can often be a bumpy road. Have hope and keep at it! Designed to kick-start creativity, this handbook from the executive director of National Novel Writing Month gathers a wide range of insights and advice for writers at any stage...
FLOAT
Becoming Unstuck for Writers
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
FLOAT • Becoming Unstuck for Writers is a writer's handbook.
The FLOAT Approach to becoming unstuck is an invitation to mindful problem-solving and brainstorming. With more than 80 tools, extensive introductory materials, inspiration from published authors, and multiple indexes for easy reference,...
by Norman Spinrad
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
Norman Spinrad describes the writing of his famous BUG JACK BARRON novel by answering three questions: "how did I come to write Bug Jack Barron? what urged me to do it? how do I hope to continue writing SF while bugging editors?" He goes on to explain the behind-the-scenes that went on with...
The Breakout Novelist
How to Craft Novels That Stand Out and Sell
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
The all-inclusive guide for novel writers
If you're serious about making your fiction vibrant, engaging, and marketable, you've found the right book. The Breakout Novelist gives you the craft and business know-how you need to make your book stand out.
Inside, veteran agent Donald Maass brings...
by Alan Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
A fiction writer's resource for creating realistic, convincing fight scenes.Author and martial arts instructor, Alan Baxter, presents a short, ~12,000 word, ebook describing all the things a writer needs to consider when writing fight scenes. Baxter's experience from decades as a...
Storycraft
The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
From the work of the New Journalists in the 1960s, to the New Yorker essays of John McPhee, Susan Orlean, Atul Gawande, and a host of others, to blockbuster book-length narratives such as Mary Roach’s Stiff or Erik Larson’s Devil in the White City, narrative nonfiction has come into its own. Yet...
by Charles Rossiter
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
For years I’ve carried a little card in my wallet with the rhyme schemes for some of the basic poetic forms. Now, with the e-reader option, it’s much easier to carry around more than just the rhyme scheme. This guide is designed to make it easy for you to have the forms at the ready whenever you...