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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Essential Information on Researching, Organizing, and Writing Narrative Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Writing Nonfiction gives narrative nonfiction writers the tools they need to elevate their storytelling to the next level.
This guide will define narrative nonfiction, list the literary building blocks and teach you how to research your desired subject. Next,...
Writing the Fire!
Yoga and the Art of Making Your Words Come Alive
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Writing the Fire! offers writers a new and visionary practice: using yoga to release the body’s inner intelligence and then support, shape, and inform the creative process.
Indeed, “writing is yoga,” declares Gail Sher, introducing the “writing asana”—an invaluable new tool for...
by Tabitha Ormiston-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Everyone, it’s said, has one book inside him, but getting it out can be problematical. Perhaps you can’t English very well, or you work long hours and just don’t have time, or you started writing and then got stuck? Fear not, for help is at hand.
Packed with friendly, no-nonsense advice, Fifty...
One Day in the Life of the English Language
A Microcosmic Usage Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Generations of student writers have been subjected to usage handbooks that proclaim, "This is the correct form. Learn it"—books that lay out a grammar, but don't inspire students to use it. By contrast, this antihandbook handbook, presenting some three hundred sentences drawn from the...
The Geek’s Guide to the Writing Life
An Instructional Memoir for Prose Writers
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The desire to create, to write, to fulfil our artistic dreams is a powerful human need. Yet the number of people who make a living solely by their pen is actually quite small. What does that mean for the rest of us, the self-described writing geeks, who are passionate about writing and who still want...
Writing after Retirement
Tips from Successful Retired Writers
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
This anthology explores the many avenues would-be writers can take to initiate a career as a published author. It is filled with tips on how to write in a variety of genres and how to connect with other writers in your community. The advice it offers is realistic and portrays the challenges and the many obstacles aspiring writers face.
Organic Writing Assessment
Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Educators strive to create “assessment cultures” in which they integrate evaluation into teaching and learning and match assessment methods with best instructional practice. But how do teachers and administrators discover and negotiate the values that underlie their evaluations? Bob Broad’s...
Word Smart, 6th Edition
1400+ Words That Belong in Every Savvy Student's Vocabulary
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
LET YOUR VOCABULARY SPEAK FOR ITSELF.
Whether your goal is to get a competitive edge on a specific exam or simply to build your word knowledge, this updated sixth edition of Word Smart gives you the tools you need to transform your vocabulary and start using words with confidence!
WORD...
More Word Smart, 2nd Edition
800+ More Words That Belong in Every Savvy Student's Vocabulary
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
AN IMPRESSIVE VOCABULARY NEVER STOPS GROWING.
More than a million people improved their vocabularies with the original Word Smart, but an educated and powerful vocabulary doesn’t stop growing with one book! Learning and effectively using the words in More Word Smart, 2nd Edition can help...
by The Princeton Review
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
THE PRINCETON REVIEW GETS RESULTS. Get extra preparation for an excellent AP Calculus AB & BC score with 550 extra practice questions and answers. This eBook edition has been optimized for digital reading with cross-linked questions, answers, and explanations.
Practice makes perfect—and The...
Writers, Authors & Dream-Weavers: I Heard Your Call for Help!
How To Write Non-Fiction, Fiction, Poetry & Mamoirs... and More
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Take Your Writing to the Next Level with Carol Adler's tried and true tips & techniques.
by Lawrence Block
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
For fourteen years, five-time Edgar winner and MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block wrote a monthly column on fiction for Writers Digest magazine. These columns yielded four books regarded as classics: Telling Lies for Fun & Profit, Spider Spin Me a Web, The Liar's Bible...and now The Liar's Companion.
Here...
Love Writing
How to Make Money Writing Romantic or Erotic Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Love sells and sex sells and you can earn your living writing about them for novels, novellas and short stories as well as serials for magazines, anthologies and websites. This book holds the secrets of how to achieve success. As well as drawing on her experience as a fiction writer and creative writing...
by Sophie King
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
Writing your life story is one of the greatest gifts you can give your family. In writing it you will find yourself drawing even closer to your children and grandchildren. You will also find it an exciting and fascinating process, one that helps you to make sense of your own life. Writing your own...