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by Angela Booth
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Today, the opportunities for writers have never been greater. Back in the day a writer who was making six-figures a year seemed a creature of myth. These days, highly successful writers are making six figures a month.Success isn't only about money of course. Success to you might mean taking...
Planning And Writing A Hot-Selling Series: Selling Writer Strategies, Book 7
Selling Writer Strategies, #7
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Want to sell more fiction with every book you write?
You can, when you write series fiction.
Your audience loves to binge on entertainment, whether it's a series on a streaming service, or a series of books.
Even if your first novel in the series is a slow seller, chances are that the pace...
by Laura K Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Not only will you find over forty totally random and awesome writing exercises to invigorate your mind and writing. You’ll discover forty-four random first lines, scenarios and dialog prompts to help get your writing going, because sometimes you just need a little help. But wait there’s more....
Writing the Paranormal Novel
Techniques and Exercises for Weaving Supernatural Elements Into Your Story.
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Vampires, werewolves, and zombies, oh my!
Writing a paranormal novel takes more than casting an alluring vampire or arming your hero with a magic wand. It takes an original idea, believable characters, a compelling plot, and surprising twists, not to mention great writing.
This helpful...
A Writer's Guide to Characterization
Archetypes, Heroic Journeys, and Other Elements of Dynamic Character Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Develop compelling character arcs using the power of myth!
In the best novels, characters undergo dramatic changes that keep readers turning pages. A Writer's Guide to Characterization shows you how to develop such meaningful character arcs in your own work--stories of transformation that will resonate...
Complete Screenwriting Course
A complete guide to writing, developing and marketing a script for TV or film
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Designed to take you from the moment you first put your pen to paper to pitching and selling your completed screenplay, this is one of the most inspiring books on screenwriting you'll ever read.
Practical exercises will teach you the craft of writing for film and television, both mainstream...
by Bekki Hill
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
In the only creative writing book to use NLP techniques, published writer Bekki Hill helps you to improve your narratives through the power of NLP. The focused, goal-orientated learning in this unique guide outlines step by step the different ways in which NLP can be used to develop a better mastery of character, plot and story by connecting emotionally with the reader.
Guerrilla Film Scoring
Practical Advice from Hollywood Composers
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
As the movie and music industries have changed, film scoring has become an overwhelmingly independent process. Film composers have more responsibilities than ever before, and they must fulfill them with smaller budgets and shorter schedules. As a result, composers are increasingly becoming armies...
So You Want To Be A Freelance Writer?
Writing for magazines, newspapers and beyond.
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
So You Want To Be A Freelance Writer - Writing for Magazines, Newspapers and Beyond does exactly what it says in the title - it shows the reader how to write for the newspaper and magazine industry and how to make it in the world of freelance writing. Deborah Durbin is a qualified journalist and has...
by Robert Fry
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A Straightforward Guide to Writing Business and Personal Letters deals with the production of effective letters and e mails covering both business and personal situations. The book dwells from the outset on grammar and punctuation. It shows the writer how they can express what they are trying to say, how to lay it out and take care that the letter achieves its aims.
by Angela Booth
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Do you love your life?If you don't ADORE your life, you can change it — more easily than you can imagine. I'm sure you've heard quotes like: "if you can imagine it, you can achieve it." And: "if you can dream it, you can become it." The challenge with these and similar quotes,...
Maim Your Characters
The ScriptMedic Guides, #1
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Increase Realism.
Raise the Stakes.
Tell Better Stories.
Maim Your Characters is the definitive guide to using wounds and injuries to their greatest effect in your story. Learn not only the six critical parts of an injury plot, but more importantly, how to make sure that the injury you’re...
The Everything Guide To Writing A Novel
From completing the first draft to landing a book contract--all you need to fulfill your dreams
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2004
This step-by-step guide teaches you the tricks of the trade, with advice on all you need to know to compete in the world of fiction. Whether you are seeking to hone your writing style, shape an existing work-in-progress, or begin the submission process to publishers, successfully published novelists...
by Jacqueline Bodnar
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
With traffic to personal blogs and online journalism sites on the rise, there are more blogging opportunities than ever before. With the right approach, a blog can be an extra source of cash, or it can be a business unto itself yielding thousands of dollars a week, all earned on your own schedule,...