Composition category: 2309 books
Big Sky Mind
Buddhism and the Beat Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
Essays, poems, photographs, and letters explore the link between Buddhism and the Beats--with previously unpublished material from several beat writers, including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, and Diane diPrima.
Script Tease
Today's Hottest Screenwriters Bare All
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
The Newest Screenwriting Secrets
What do an erstwhile stripper, an ex–gambling addict, and a stoned Canadian teenager have in common? They wrote your favorite movies, and they're not who you'd expect.
Diablo Cody (Juno), Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler), and Seth Rogan (Superbad) are...
Screenplay Workbook
The Writing Before the Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
An instructional manual combined with proprietary worksheets, charts and fill-in lists designed to give screenwriters a better way to focus on the task of writing a screenplay.
Writing Speculative Fiction: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
Teacher's Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This textbook develops an 18-week program designed to guide prospective students through creating their own speculative fiction story, that is, a science fiction, fantasy, or horror story. Designed for homeschoolers and small-school settings, this textbook draws on excerpts from dozens of speculative...
5-Day Fiction Fix: Creating Compelling Characters
How to Write Unforgettable Characters in a Week or Less
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
A simple, five-day process for writing complex characters readers will love -- or love to hate. Through case studies, insightful lessons, and writing exercises divided into five easy-to-follow daily plans, veteran editor and bestselling author Jen Blood shares her secrets for creating characters readers...
Track Changes
A Literary History of Word Processing
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Writing in the digital age has been as messy as the inky rags in Gutenberg’s shop or the molten lead of a Linotype machine. Matthew Kirschenbaum examines how creative authorship came to coexist with the computer revolution. Who were the early adopters, and what made others anxious? Was word processing just a better typewriter, or something more?
by Gillian Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Have you ever thought about writing a mystery, and gave up the idea because you didn't know where to begin? Now is your chance to write the mystery of your dreams. You Can Write a Mystery, written by Gillian Roberts, author of the Anthony Award-winning Amanda Pepper series, will help you start your mystery,...
by Katherine Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is publishing a monthly series of e-only essays to correspond with Katherine Paterson’s two-year term as the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. The subjects of the essays include: writing and literature for young people, the wonder and imagination found...
by Laura K Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Get your creativity in gear with Mighty Magnificent Book of Prompts. You’ll find prompts, story starters, and first lines to get your creativity flowing. But beware you never know where a prompt may take you. So let loose and have fun. I’m sure you’ll come up with a Mighty Magnificent story.This...
Writing with Rosie
You Can Write a Story Too
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
In a humorous and entertaining guide, two-time Newbery Honor-winning author Patricia Reilly Giff breaks down the process of writing fiction into steps, all while trying to cope with constant distractions from her exuberant seventy-pound golden retriever puppy, Rosie. Citing examples from her award-winning...
Melinda Camber Porter In Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates, 1987 Princeton University: ISSN Volume 1, Number 6
Melinda Camber Porter Archive of Creative Works
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
"Melinda Camber Porter in Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates This conversation between Melinda Camber Porter and Joyce Carol Oates took place on a late afternoon in Princeton, N.J. in 1987. It coincided with the publication of Joyce Carol Oates’ collection of essays entitled “On Boxing,”...
by Kevin Alberto Sabio
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Delving into the archives, found in both physical and digital folders, we've been able to unearth this collection of poetic prose. Showing both, the Heart of a souljahr, and the Heart of a Lover, this collection of never-before-released poems and rhymesshows the depths of a man, bearing his soul,...
Brooding
Arias, Choruses, Lullabies, Follies, Dirges, and a Duet
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This collection of more than twenty-five essays, both meditative and formally inventive, considers all kinds of subjects: everyday objects such as keys and hats, plus concepts of time and place; the memoir; writing; the essay itself; and Michael Martone’s friendship with the writers David Foster...
The Art of Dramatic Writing
Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1972
Amid the hundreds of "how-to" books that have appeared in recent years, there have been very few which attempted to analyze the mysteries of play-construction. This book does that -- and its principles are so valid that they apply equally well to the short story, novel and screenplay.
Lajos...