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AUTHOR INTERVIEW How did you come to write this book? I set myself the task of running a wiki blog for two years where every single day I wrote personal reflections on the process of writing and my experience as a writer. What made you decide to publish the posts as a book? Firstly...

Explains how to use extreme third person limited point of view in fiction to capture and sustain reader attention. With examples.

Organized into ten sections with each devoted to a poetic concept, The Practicing Poet begins with "Discovering New Material," "Finding the Best Words," "Making Music," "Working with Sentences and Line Breaks," "Crafting Surprise," and "Achieving...

•  Learn how books write themselves! •  Discover secrets for making words! •  Find out what happens when you have a decent idea and apply a plot to it! It's all here, in this handy guide to jumpstarting your novel. It doesn't matter if you've just started thinking about...

As a writer, you can provide a richer emotional experience for your reader by utilizing a deeper point of view. Deep point of view draws the reader into the characters’ heads and can elicit a stronger emotional reader response to the characters’ struggles, decisions, and reactions to external...

If you're writing fiction, one of the most important investments you can make is in your characters. They are the glue that holds your story together. Without them, the reader has no reason to keep reading. If you want to write a compelling story, your characters need to be so real that they...

This book gives writers pointers and guidelines on how to improve their action scenes by implementing some of the same kinds of techniques used in film-making. Loaded with new terminology and definitions, an introduction to the basic concepts of an Action Scene, and application of the concepts, this...

Are you looking to write a book effortlessly and in little time at all? Learn the strategies and tips that professional best selling authors use to write literary masterpieces! Inside you will learn: - Write a Book Fast in One Month or Less! - Starting. - Setting the Scene. -...

The problem came to a head one day as I was driving through Tokyo. While waiting for the light to change, I saw the following public service announcement on the side of a bus: Omoiyari hitonikurumani konomachini (Sympathy / toward people, toward cars / toward this town). Seventeen syllables. Five-seven-five...

Internal dialogue is the voice inside our heads that we can’t ignore, even when we want to. We second-guess ourselves, pass judgment on the world around us, and are at our most emotionally vulnerable. And the same needs to be true for our characters. Internal dialogue is one of the most powerful...

"I can't imagine a more sensible and useful guide for the would-be writer, part-time or not" - from the Foreword by Diana Athill. Part-time Writer guides the reader through all aspects of writing - from the embryonic stages of researching and planning, to the hard slog of the writing and...

In Write Here Write Now (WHWN): Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator, published by National Book Store, Filipino writer, editor, speaker, teacher AA Patawaran shares with all writers—aspiring and established, amateurs and professionals—profound and practical tips on the craft...

Writer’s Block; if you are reading this, you have probably experienced it as the painful condition of having to complete a complex writing task, but being unable to get started and/or finish the job. With the right approach, almost any writing task can be managed.Overcoming Writer’s Block is a practical guide for anyone wishing to learn some practical strategies t

At a time when policy discussions are dominated by “I feel” instead of “I know,” it is more important than ever for social scientists to make themselves heard. When those who possess in-depth training and expertise are excluded from public debates about pressing social issues—such as climate...