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by Julio Cortázar
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
A master class from the exhilarating writer Julio Cortázar
“I want you to know that I’m not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.” So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio Cortázar delivered at UC...
by Maggie Hamand
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Do you have an idea that you’re burning to get down on paper? Do you want to document your travels to far-flung places, or write a few stanzas of poetry? Whether you dream of being a novelist, a travel writer, a poet, a playwright or a columnist, Creative Writing For Dummies shows you how to unlock...
by Louise Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Huge numbers of people want to write for children, but it is notoriously difficult to find a publisher in this increasingly comeptitive area. This inspiring and practical guide from acknowledged expert on children's publishing Louise Jordan, will show you how to make your work stand out from the crowd and appeal to commissioning editors, and, of course, your intended audience.
Write, Write, Write
7 Dynamite Instructional Articles for Those Who Want to Write Prose from Personal Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
This is a guide full of exercises and examples for achieving the kind of approach to writing from personal experience that will help you find wonderfully deep and surprising material! I write instruction like this every week for WritingItReal.com.I hope you'll enjoy the book!
by H. C. Bunner
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
The good ship sped on her way across the calm Atlantic. It was an outward passage, according to the little charts which the company had charily distributed, but most of the passengers were homeward bound, after a summer of rest and recreation, and they were counting the days before they might hope...
by Alfonso Reyes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Alfonso Reyes es una de las figuras centrales de la literatura en lengua española del siglo XX y uno de los más grandes humanistas de nuestro tiempo. Su fervor por las letras y su pasión cultural lo llevaron a dedicar su vida a los más variados temas: la poesía, la filología, la Grecia clásica,...
by David Morley
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
This pioneering book introduces students to the practice and art of creative writing and creative reading. It offers a fresh, distinctive and beautifully written synthesis of the discipline. David Morley discusses where creative writing comes from, the various forms and camouflages it has taken, and...
Understanding Conflict (And What It Really Means)
Skill Builders, #2
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
**Do you struggle with creating conflict in your novel? You don't have to. **
Award-winning author Janice Hardy (and founder of the popular writing site, Fiction University) takes you deep inside one of the most important aspects of storytelling--conflict. She'll help you understand what conflict...
by Laura E. Coons
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Dialogue that drones on, clutters the page, or stalls the scene can ruin even the best of novels. Learn to avoid common dialogue pitfalls and dazzle your readers, editors, and agents with snappy scenes and smooth-as-silk transitions between dialogue and narrative. “He Said, She Said” is packed...
by K.B. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Are you seeking fantasy writing ideas? Perhaps you’re already a successful fantasy writer or maybe you’re at the initial aspiration stage.
Fantasy fiction is enjoying an immense and growing popularity. The blockbusters and bestsellers just keep coming to feed an audience hungry for more...
Writing Hard Stories
Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Some of the country’s most admired authors—including Andre Dubus III, Mark Doty, Marianne Leone, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Richard Blanco, Abigail Thomas, Kate Bornstein, Jerald Walker, and Kyoko Mori—describe their treks through dark memories and breakthrough moments and attest to the healing...
Write and Revise for Publication
A 6-Month Plan for Crafting an Exceptional Novel and Other Works of Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Writers need a structured approach to writing fiction, one that includes effective strategies for both drafting and revision/fine-tuning. A structured approach builds a writer's confidence and provides an efficient process in terms of producing submission-ready work. It's best to get that first draft...
Poetry Writing For Wanna-Be'sTm
A Writer-Friendly Guidebook Including the Author's Chapbook of Light Verse, "Poems Are Such Funny Stuff."
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
After reading and enjoying poetry, many of us become "wanna-be poets" wanting to develop our own skills and style by learning from experiences of others. The goal is to write our own poems in readable, entertaining form. This simple, practical, handy guide provides the background and essentials...
Pen in Hand
A Meditation on the Art and Craft of the Short Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
"The connection which I have shown in this lecture to exist between the energy of the hearts contraction and the length of the muscle fibers, enables us to understand not only the marvelous power of adaptation of the heart to the varying strains of everyday life, but also the condition of this...