Writing Skills category: 1537 books

The only How-to-Write book that has nothing to do with writing. It's all about rewriting. Whittle away what buries the art of your words beneath pulp, no matter the topic, no matter the genre.

Who told your muse she could go on vacation? While one could say that hard-working muses are just as entitled as the rest of us to relax, refresh and recharge, why does their absence always seem to coincide with publishing deadlines and the inability to squeeze forth a single clever thought, turn...

Character 101 started originally as a series of blog posts and was for some time the core material of John Adamus' popular Writing Workshops. The elements here are taught in a practical way, spending little time on abstract theory, and focusing instead on how any writer can apply these ideas...

Revision isn't just a hoop you need to jump through on your way to publishing success--it's a vital and powerful tool you can harness to make your already-good first draft even better. In "Leveling Up," Heather Webb offers sage advice for elevating the revision process. This exclusive e-book...

The essential writing, research & publishing guide you need. 3 books in 1. Backburning Backstory, The 13 Main Scenes and The Staircase of Turning Points. I'm not going to lie. This book is going to hurt your brain. But it's for your own good. First, I'll show you how to recognise backstory in your...

'The Elements of Style' (1918), by William Strunk, Jr., is an American English writing style guide. It is the best-known, most influential prescriptive treatment of English grammar and usage, and often is required reading and usage in U.S. high school and university composition classes. This edition...

Learn SEO copy writing and save the money you would be paying to that SEO copy writer.This eBook will provide you with everything you need to put your web page above other competing pages, will teach you how to write your page to convince your potential clients to purchase your products/services.You...

Dedicato a chi ha il compito di redigere testi destinati alla Rete, il volume affronta sistematicamente tutti gli aspetti della scrittura online. Non dà nulla per scontato: parte dalle basi e porta gradualmente il lettore a un livello avanzato, che gli consentirà di produrre testi adeguati alle...

Narrative pace can make or break the reading experience, but few people describe what real pace is or how you can achieve it. Most just discuss writing, style, and sentence structure, but pacing in any story is so much more than that. This e-book gives a clear explanation of pacing and then shows...

The reality of being an author today means that you can't do it all alone. The writing, designing, editing, publishing, and marketing of a book is no longer a one-man or one-woman show. Authors, if they want to put their best professional face forward, must now build a publishing team and rely on...

Succeeding her debut effort Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 1, the adroit wordsmith continues her journey through the analytical world of literary criticism with the second installment in the ongoing series, appropriately titled Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology,...

Leggere come il premio Nobel Mario Vargas Llosa lavora ai suoi romanzi. Seguire le battute di Stephen King sulla tecnica della scrittura. Sapere dalle sue vive parole cosa fa Paul Auster per valutare una sua prima bozza. Divertirsi agli acidi e illuminanti commenti di Haruki Murakami. Approfondire...

El Pequeño Libro de las Musas invita al lector a embarcarse en una travesía fantástica para descubrir la belleza de la palabra escrita. En sus páginas se encuentra una colección de curiosos dichos poéticos  aparejados con una serenata lingüística, que invoca el alma del cuentista,  y el...

All the story experts talk about it. Screenwriters, novelists, short story writers—everyone—speaks about the importance of writing stories with a moral core, having characters who are flawed, creating heroes and heroines with relatable human foibles. But few if any of these experts talk about...