Composition category: 2309 books
Writer's Block Unblocked
Seven Surefire Ways to Free Up Your Writing and Creative Flow
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
You don't have to experience writer's block. Ever! You don’t have to sweat over a blank page. You don’t have to wonder where your next word is coming from. You can write -- naturally, eloquently and flowingly. Become one of Mark David's many writer's-block success stories: Free up your creative...
by Madison Smartt Bell
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2000
With clarity, verve, and the sure instincts of a good teacher, Madison Smartt Bell offers a roll-up-your-sleeves approach to writing in this much-needed book.
Focusing on the big picture as well as the crucial details, Bell examines twelve stories by both established writers (including Peter...
by Susan Wise Bauer, Peter Buffington
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
A workbook to accompany the acclaimed series on teaching writing, from the author of The Well-Trained Mind.
In Writing with Ease, Susan Wise Bauer lays out an alternative plan for teaching writing, one that combines the best elements of old-fashioned writing instruction with innovative new...
The Fanfiction Reader
Folk Tales for the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Written originally as a fanfiction for the series Twilight, the popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey has made obvious what was always clear to fans and literary scholars alike: that it is an essential human activity to read and retell epic stories of famous heroic characters. The Fanfiction Reader showcases...
How To Write Comedy
Discover the building blocks of sketches, jokes and sitcoms and make them work
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
First you have to come out with a flow of ideas and decide which ones will work. Then you must give them a tight structure, and then write crisp dialogue which builds in constant laughs. This practical but inspirational book guides new and more experienced writers step by step through the process...
by Nicholas Corder
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Writing Your Own Life Story is designed to guide you through all the stages of writing from planning to final lay-out. Written in a friendly, accessible style, full of practical advice and worked examples, this book will help you get your memories from your head onto the page. This new, updated edition is a must-have for anyone wanting to tell the story of their life.
Creating Picture Books
a student work ebook
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2012
This e-book will assist students in creating a picture book for an adult or child audience. It is designed to develop students understanding of the picture book genre — the written and visual narrative elements, and then skills in creating an example of the genre. This ebook includes modelled responses and activities.
Creative Writing and Stylistics
Creative and Critical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
In this innovative fusion of practice and criticism, Jeremy Scott shows how insights from stylistics can enrich the craft of creative writing. Focusing on crucial methodological issues that confront the practicing writer,
Creative Writing and Stylistics:
- introduces key topics from stylistics;
-...
Writing Poetry from the Inside Out
Finding Your Voice Through the Craft of Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
In Writing Poetry from the Inside Out, poet and national poetry workshop leader, Sandford Lyne, offers the writing exercises, guidance, and encouragement you need to find the poet inside you. Lyne's techniques, which he developed through twenty years of teaching poetry workshops, flow from an understanding...
The Butterfly Hours
Transforming Memories into Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Sometimes all it takes is a single word to spark a strong memory. Bicycle. Snowstorm. Washing machine. By presenting one-word prompts and simple phrases, author and writing teacher Patty Dann gives us the keys to unlock our life stories. Organized around her ten rules for writing memoir, Dann’s...
Songwriting for Geniuses
25 Tips for the Genius in Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
In Songwriting For Geniuses, singer/songwriter Gene Burnett offers 25 tips to aspiring songwriters for writing better, more satisfying songs. The author's contention is that within each of us is a place that knows when a song works and when it does not. This place of knowing is called many things:...
by Kate Krake
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Do you want to learn how to write inspirational romance?
It all starts with the idea.
And here are 101 ideas to start you writing a truly heartfelt romance story.
Some of these writing prompts are ideas for characters; others present possible scenarios; some are snippets of dialogue.
Each...
Onward, Writer!
29 Encouraging Letters to Your Inner Writer
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
This is the firm nudge you’ve been needing to push you from wanting-to-write to actually getting your work done!
Is writing the most important thing to you, but you never get any done? Do you write all the time in your mind but never put the words onto paper? Or are you stuck in the middle...
by Sean Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2016
Learn how to write and compose music for commercials. Kill writer's block and find out how to see "The Matrix" as you become a power player in such a lucrative musical field. A must-have for every songwriter, instrumentalist, composer, and musician looking to get into commercials.