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Fast-Draft Your Memoir
Write Your Life Story in 45 Hours
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2018
**This is your roadmap for completing the memoir you've dreamed about writing. **
"Rachael Herron resonates with our audience, and not just because she knows her stuff—she does—or because she's hilarious—she is—but because her honesty and earnestness come through in all her messaging."...
Make a Real Living as a Freelance Writer
How To Win Top Writing Assignments
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Step-by-step instructions on how writers can earn top dollar writing for magazines are provided in this book. Secrets are revealed about what the high-paying magazines really want, how to build relationships with editors, how to ascertain which sections of a magazine are open to freelancers, what...
by Lawrence Block
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Lawrence Block, the award-winning crime fiction author, is almost as well known for his instructional books for writers, and contributed a monthly column on fiction to Writers Digest for 14 years. WRITING THE NOVEL was his first book for writers, and remained continuously in print since its original...
Building Great Sentences
How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Based on the bestselling series from The Great Courses, Building Great Sentences celebrates the sheer joy of language—and will forever change the way you read and write.
Great writing begins with the sentence. Whether it’s two words (“Jesus wept.”) or William Faulkner’s 1,287-word...
Write-A-Thon
Write Your Book in 26 Days (And Live to Tell About It)
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Find the focus, energy, and drive you need to start-and finish-your book
Everyone has dreamed of writing a book, but so many start writing only to stall out due to writers block, mental fatigue, and other challenges. Write-A-Thon helps you overcome those stumbling blocks and complete your...
Get Your Travel Writing Published
Perfect your travel writing and share it with the world
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Get Your Travel Writing Published will give those of you who love to travel and long to write about it the essential tools to turn it into a profession. By the end of this book, you will know what steps you will need to take to get your work published, the ABCs of writing winning travel articles and...
by Mitchell Ivers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Clear, concise, effective, THE RANDOM HOUSE GUIDE TO GOOD WRITING is for anyone who wishes to communicate well in writing. Mitchell Ivers shows us how to master the medium and the message with an array of features: Precise guidelines on word usage, grammar, and punctuation--and how to decide with...
Writing Short Stories
A Routledge Writer's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
This new edition of Writing Short Stories has been updated throughout to include new and revised exercises, up-to-date coverage of emerging technologies and a new glossary of key terms and techniques. Ailsa Cox, a published short-story writer, guides the reader through the key aspects of the craft,...
Writing Historical Fiction
viewing the past through the lens of the present
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
"Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." George Santayana. Writing historical fiction involves more than taking a story and substituting carriages for cars. The historical novelist must do her best to understand the mindset of the people she writes about, even while...
The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Beating Writer's Block
Blast Through Blocks and Jump-Start Your Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
"Write it off, work it out, get it done." An eminently practical guide to getting unblocked and writing again, "The Pocket Idiotas Guidea to Beating Writeras Block" includes dozens and dozens of tips, exercises, prompts, and more that will get the creative juices flowing. From...
The Last Draft
A Novelist's Guide to Revision
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
The definitive handbook for the novelist who is ready to revise
This wise and friendly guide shows writers how to turn first-draft manuscripts into the novels of their dreams. A critic, longtime teacher, and award-winning novelist, Sandra Scofield illustrates how to reread a work of fiction...
by Christopher Beha
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
The Writer's Notebook II offers aspiring authors sixteen insightful essays about the craft of writing by Tin House authors and summer workshop faculty members, including Aimee Bender, Steve Almond, Maggie Nelson, Karen Russell, Benjamin Percy, and others.
The Writer's Notebook II continues...
Authorial Ethics
How Writers Abuse Their Calling
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Authorial Ethics is a normative study that deals with the many ways in which writers abuse their commitment to truth and integrity. It is divided by academic discipline and includes chapters on journalism, history, literature, art, psychology, and science, among others. Robert Hauptman offers generalizations...
The Forever Letter
Writing What We Believe For Those We Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
A forever letter is a gift that will be read over and over again
Inspired by the centuries-old Jewish tradition of the ethical will, a forever letter is a perfect way to share your most precious possessions: your values, wisdom, and love with the people who matter to you most. And you don't...