Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
by Michael Dolan
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2011
Hey, lighten up! And help your customers and co-workers have a little fun too. There's nothing like Funny Business available anywhere (that's why we wrote it). Find out how to put humor in your writing – and get away with it! Memos, letters, social media – make it all a little funnier.Here's...
You Must Be This Tall to Ride
Contemporary Writers Take You Inside The Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Compelling stories have the power to generate infinite wonder: It's nearly impossible to imagine how the author began, and yet we sense there's much more beyond the final word. It's this mysterya combination of inspiration and craft, smoke and mirrorsthat makes writing feel momentous. But it can...
by Kevin Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
**100% of the profits from this book are donated to support the future of NaNoWriMo and other writing programs.**
Every November, hundreds of thousands take up the challenge of National Novel Writing Month and attempt to write a book in just thirty days. Most will give up along the way,...
Verisimilitude
How Illusions, Confidence Games, and Skillful Lying can Improve Your Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
In terms of objective reality, a work of fiction is an elaborate lie. No writer thinks of themselves as a liar simply because they write fiction, but that’s the fact of the matter. And no other writing guide will admit to teaching you to be a better writer by showing you how to be a better liar—at...
Write Your Book Now
A Proven System to Start and FINISH the Book You've Always Wanted to Write!
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Ideal for aspiring authors who only dream of actually finishing their works in progress, this guide features proven, field-tested tools guaranteed to successfully complete that romance, expert guide to business success, or great American novel. The chapters simplify the writing process by breaking it...
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...
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...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Memoir
Expert Guidance on Crafting Your Most Meaningful Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Helps readers write memoirs, personal essays, and life stories of every length and type.
by Nadi Abdi
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
There is a mixture of exercises ranging from opening to closing sentences, word association, and completion projects. I find that most people have the most trouble starting a project. We just don’t know where to begin a novel or paper or whatever. That being the case, there are a lot of projects...
Writing Your Dissertation, 3rd Edition
The bestselling guide to planning, preparing and presenting first-class work
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
This book gives you the confidence, tools and techniques to produce a first-class dissertation. It offers practical guidelines to planning realistic timetables and structuring every aspect of your work. Find out how to avoid common mistakes and the best way to present your work, and even how to assess your dissertation in the same way as a university or college tutor does.
Starting from Scratch
A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
From the best-selling author of Rubyfruit Jungle and Bingo, here is a writers' manual as provocative, frank, and funny as her fiction. Unlike most writers' guides, this one had as much to do with how writers live as with mastering the tools of their trade. Rita Mae Brown begins with a very personal...
by Philip Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
“I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.” – Flannery O’Connor.
Beginning writers often wonder what it takes to get published. The second edition of this practical book looks at what really makes fiction work: good storytelling!
Oddly, storytelling...
Adulting 101
Writing Through Life and Other Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Life experiences are supposed to give us fodder for stories, but what happens when life gets overwhelming? From raising kids to caring for parents, day jobs and no jobs, falling in love and out of it… Editor and NYT Bestselling author Donna Alward and Nancy Cassidy, editor and owner of The Red Pen...
by Susan Palmquist
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Avoid the common pitfalls of short story writing
Beginning writers often make common errors that will a little know-how can be corrected or avoided.
Create the perfect plot for your short story
In Crafting the Short Story you’ll...