Composition category: 2309 books
Write Away
One Writer's Approach to the Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Bestselling author Elizabeth George has spent years teaching writing, and in Write Away she shares her knowledge of the creative process. George combines clear, intelligent, and functional advice on fiction writing with anecdotes from her own life, the story of her journey to publication, and inside...
Unless It Moves the Human Heart
The Craft and Art of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Multiple award-winner Roger Rosenblatt has received glowing critical acclaim for his exceptional literary works—from the hilarious novels Lapham Rising and Beet to his poignant, heartbreaking, ultimately inspiring memoir Making Toast. With Unless It Moves the Human Heart, the revered novelist, essayist,...
Bird by Bird
Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
"A warm, generous and hilarious guide through the writer's world and its treacherous swamps." --Los Angeles Times
Advice on writing and on life from an acclaimed bestselling author:
"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report...
The Great Detectives
The World’s Most Celebrated Sleuths Unmasked by Their Authors
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
The origins of literature’s finest crime fighters, told by their creators themselves
Their names ring out like gunshots in the dark of a back alley, crime fighters of a lost era whose heroic deeds will never be forgotten. They are men like Lew Archer, Pierre Chambrun, Flash Casey, and the...
by Noah Lukeman
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
"Takes the straitjacket off punctuation…Lukeman's wit and insight make this an instant classic." —M. J. Rose
The first practical and accessible guide to the art of punctuation for creative writers. Punctuation reveals the writer: haphazard commas, for example, reveal haphazard...
by William Safire
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2005
These fifty humorous misrules of grammar will open the eyes of writers of all levels to fine style.
How Not to Write is a wickedly witty book about grammar, usage, and style. William Safire, the author of the New York Times Magazine column "On Language," homes in on the "essential...
by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Most of what you think you know about writing is useless. It’s the harmful debris of your education—a mixture of half-truths, myths, and false assumptions that prevents you from writing well. Drawing on years of experience as a writer and teacher of writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg offers an approach...
Get a Grip on Your Grammar
250 Writing and Editing Reminders for the Curious or Confused
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Just as we should think before we speak, we need to think before we write.
Most of us are not poets or novelists, but we are all writers. We email, text, and post; we craft memos and reports, menus and outdoor signage, birthday cards and sticky notes on the fridge.
Get a Grip on Your...
True Notebooks
A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.’s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him that he began to teach there regularly....
Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434
The Industry's Premier Teacher Reveals the Secrets of the Successful Screenplay
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2004
For decades, Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434 class at UCLA has been the premier screenwriting course, launching a generation of the industry's most frequently produced writers. Here, he shares the secrets of his course on the screenwriting process by actually writing an original script, step by step, that appears in the book.
by Constance Immel, Florence Sacks
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1999
Do you panic when you must decide whether to use “affect” or “effect”? Do verb tenses make you, well...tense?
This easy-to-use guide to grammar not only teaches you to use the right verb at the right time, but helps you brush up on all your rusty grammar skills so you can write and...
Steering the Craft
A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A revised and updated guide to the essentials of a writer’s craft, presented by a brilliant practitioner of the art
Completely revised and rewritten to address the challenges and opportunities of the modern era, this handbook is a short, deceptively simple guide to the craft of writing. Le...
by Silvia Adela Kohan
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Este libro te alienta a escribir para ti mismo o para los demás. Se divide en dos partes conectadas íntimamente entre sí:
El diván y la pluma (escribir para vivir mejor).
Los procesos del escritor (escribir para la creación literaria).
Y un anexo sobre lectoterapia y cineterapia.
Encuentra...
A Writer's Workbook
Daily Exercises for the Writing Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Aspiring doctors have medical school. Karate students have belts of different colors. Pianists have scales and arpeggios. But what system do writers have for getting and staying "in shape," to help them focus, practice, and make progress?
A Writer's Workbook is Caroline Sharp's ingenious...