Writing Skills category: 1537 books

It’s a writer’s job to create compelling characters who can withstand life’s fallout without giving up. But building authentic, memorable heroes is no easy task. To forge realistic characters, we must hobble them with flaws that set them back while giving them positive attributes to help them...

Are you ready to build habits, face your fears and change your life? Because that’s the Power of Creativity. This book is for new writers, musicians, filmmakers, artists and anyone who has ever asked questions like “How can I become more creative?” or, “How can I get more ideas?”...

This is not about writing technique. "Violence: A Writer's Guide" is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what...

More than 80% of the global population want to write a book, but the majority never do. Fear, anxiety, day jobs, family commitments, procrastination, depression, self-doubt, and the ubiquitous ‘writer’s block’ all get in the way. But what if they didn't have to? Kristina...

"PERSEVERANCE IS MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN TALENT. BECAUSE SO MANY TALENTED PEOPLE FALL BY THE WAYSIDE" --James Michener The history of writing is full of authors striving to succeed in a hyper-competetive publishing world, contending with agents, editors, publishers, critics, and...

So. You’re a writer. Do you know the bones of what makes a good story? It’s not the same thing as being a writer, not at all. How do you learn to tell a good story? There’s trial and error, sure. But there are also books like this, to help you along, making it easier to...

Open this book and you will Compose great copy Engage your audience Persuade brilliantly Build sales

An excellent inspirational resource for nonfiction writers from Dan Poynter. Each page hits the nonfiction writer right in the thought process with a tip, an explanation, an illustrative story and a writing quotation.

In this landmark collection, Patricia Hampl and Elaine Tyler May have gathered fourteen original essays from award-winning memoirists and historians. They are all storytellers, wrestling with a fascinating gray area where memory intersects with history and where the necessities of narrative collide...

Written by a professional editor with 20 years experience, this guide to self-editing offers writers of novels and short stories multiple ways to improve their writing and produce cleaner manuscripts to pitch to agents and editors or to self-publish. Includes 10 rules for avoiding errors in punctuation...

Ever thought about writing an episodic story? If you have, then this book might come in handy. "Episodic Storytelling For Beginners" is a short list of ten things (taken from my blog) to know and/or think about before you begin your first episodic story."Episodic Storytelling For Beginners"...

Dans ce joyeux guide très vivant construit sous forme d’un enchainement d’improvisations littéraires à réaliser en solo ou en groupe, l’auteure Mylène Fortin, ferrée à l’animation d’ateliers d’écriture pour tous les publics, propose une savoureuse plongée dans l’univers débridé...

84 Million acres... There are 391 areas in The National Park System of the United States of America. 272 Million Recreational Visitors… In 2006 the National Parks were hammered with visitors. 6.8+ Million Campers… This number reflects a combined usage of Tent, RV and Back Country campers. The...

Type Hard. Type Fast. Make Dough. That was the formula of old-school pulp fiction—plot-driven, popular and gobbled up by a reading public hungry for more. And it produced many writers who hammered out a living selling “cash-and-carry” stories and novels. Some of these writers were...