Writing Skills category: 1537 books
by Lester, Amelia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The UTS Writers Anthology has helped launch many careers, and continues to provide readers with some of the freshest ideas in Australian writing. The creative writing degree at the University of Technology, Sydney, is the oldest in Australia and 2011 marks the Anthologys special 25th edition. Each year...
Glitter in the Blood
A Poet's Manifesto for Better, Braver Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
The definitive guidebook and rebel yell for poets seeking radical growth. You want to write great poems: poems that challenge, inspire and awe; poems that forever alter your audience and yourself. Those poems take imagination, skill and some serious guts. This is not an easy step-by-step up a how-to...
The Truth of Memoir
How to Write about Yourself and Others with Honesty, Emotion, and Integrity
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Baring the Truth in Your Memoir
When you write a memoir or personal essay, you dare to reveal the truths of your experience: about yourself, and about others in your life. How do you expose long-guarded secrets and discuss bad behavior? How do you gracefully portray your family members, friends,...
The Art of Creative Research
A Field Guide for Writers
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
All writers conduct research. For some this means poring over records and combing, archives but for many creative writers research happens in the everyday world—when they scribble an observation on the subway, when they travel to get the feel for a city, or when they strike up a conversation with...
by Bryan Garner
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
With more than a thousand new entries and more than 2,300 word-frequency ratios, the magisterial fourth edition of this book-now renamed Garner's Modern English Usage (GMEU)-reflects usage lexicography at its finest. Garner explains the nuances of grammar and vocabulary with thoroughness, finesse,...
by Jennifer Barraclough
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
How to enjoy the journey to becoming a published author, and cope with challenges such as lack of time for writing, lack of inspiration, negative criticism, and aversion to marketing? Jennifer’s experience as an author of both fiction and non-fiction books, combined with many years of working with...
Story Sensei Characterization worksheet
Create memorable, three-dimensional characters
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Whether your story is plot-driven or character-driven, characterization is important. Your readers identify and/or empathize with your characters, and that’s what keeps them on the edge of their seats, wanting to know what happens next to your characters.
When your reader is apathetic about...
by Adrienne deWolfe
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
How to Write Sensual Love Scenes is the third ebook in the series, The Secrets to Getting Your Romance Novel Published. Written by Adrienne deWolfe, winner of the Best Historical Romance of the Year Award, this ebook describes how to put the sizzle in kiss scenes and love scenes; how to master the...
by Deborah J. Lightfoot
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
For writers in all genres, tips and tricks for (partially) computer-aided editing and for invoking the critical faculties of your logical left brain at just the right time. We’ll use the Find feature to locate predictable problems: “ly” adverbs, overuse of commas, qualifiers that leech the life...
by Elizabeth Huff
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
102 Prompts for Horror Writers is a must-have book for all those interested in writing spooky tales. Besides the writing prompts also included is:
subgenres and descriptions
a list of unusual ways to die
mysterious disappearances
common forensic tests and techniques
reference websites
and more...
by Mary McCray
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2015
If you’re a poet or writer in any other form or genre, you’ve probably witnessed many modern, uncivilized behaviors from fellow students, writers and academic colleagues—their public relations gestures, their catty reviews and essays, and their often uncivil career moves. Like actors, visual...
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
Contents: On some technical elements of style in literature The morality of the profession of letters Books which have influenced me A note on realism My first book: ‘Treasure Island’ The...
A Writer's Guide to Active Setting
How to Enhance Your Fiction with More Descriptive, Dynamic Settings
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Enhance Your Fiction with the Power of an Active Setting!
Setting is one of the most underutilized and misunderstood elements of the writing craft. And when writers do focus on setting, they often pull readers out of the narrative and jolt their attention from the action on the page.
A...
The Write Track
How to Succeed as a Freelance Writer in Canada Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
The Write Track is a personal and practical look at the author’s freelance experience as she tells how she made it from uncertain early days to the growing confidence of a veteran. This guide is packed with the information a freelance writer needs to know, including:
a writer’s self-evaluation
profits...