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by Henry Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
The Adelphi was an English literary journal founded by John Middleton Murry and published between 1922 and 1955. Noted contributors included Katherine Mansfield, D. H. Lawrence, H. E Bates, and Henry Williamson. For a brief period – three issues only, beginning with the October-December 1948 issue...
Stein On Writing
A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Your future as a writer is in your hands. Whether you are a newcomer or an accomplished professional, a novelist, story writer, or a writer of nonfiction, you will find this book a wealth of immediately useful guidance not available anywhere else. As Sol Stein, renowned editor, author, and instructor,...
The Forest for the Trees (Revised and Updated)
An Editor's Advice to Writers
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
"The Forest for the Trees should become a permanent part of any writer's or editor's personal library." -The Seattle Times
Quickly established as an essential and enduring companion for aspiring writers when it was first published, Betsy Lerner's sharp, funny, and insightful guide...
The Art of Creative Nonfiction
Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
A complete guide to the art and craft of creative nonfiction--from one of its pioneer practitioners
The challenge of creative nonfiction is to write the truth in a style that is as accurate and informative as reportage, yet as personal, provocative, and dramatic as fiction. In this one-of-a-kind...
Write Every Day
How to Write Faster, and Write More
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
Nine Day Novel: Outlining
Outlining Your Novel: Plotting Your Way to Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Outlining your novel doesn’t have to be hard.
But when was the last time you sat down to write with the confidence and true belief that you knew exactly what story you were going to tell?
Where do you start your first novel?
If you’re like I was, you started writing...
Gotta Read It!
Five Simple Steps to a Fiction Pitch that Sells
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Blurbs, product descriptions, query letters… no matter what you call them, they’re a chore to write. And yet the success of any novel can depend on its pitch. What’s an author to do? In this short, instructive ebook, Libbie Hawker takes the pain out of pitch-writing and shares the secrets...
by Randy Ingermanson
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Want to Write a Dynamite Novel?
The secret to writing a dynamite novel is to first write a dynamite scene.
Because if you can write one terrific scene, you can write a hundred. And that’s a novel.
This is a short book, with just one goal—to teach you the simple principles...
The Novel Writer's Toolkit
From Idea to Best-Seller
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
Writing a novel and getting it published: That's your goal. And nothing will keep you from making it happen. Such a goal, of course, presents a number of challenges. Make sure you have the tools you need to overcome them and succeed.
In THE NOVEL WRITER'S TOOLKIT, NY Times Best-Selling...
The Plot Skeleton
a practical, bare boned approach that works for children's books, short stories, novels, screenplays, and storytellers
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
If you were sitting in a room with twenty other people, at first glance you might think they are quite different. After all, people come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. But if you were to put on x-ray glasses and look at those same people's skeletons, unless one of them had an abnormality, they...
by Roz Morris
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
'A perfect primer on character creation' - Mars Dorian
'Great foundational tool' - KM Weiland, speculative fiction author and writing coach
'Nail Your Novel is on my shortlist of indispensable writing books' - Lisa Cron, author of Wired For Story
How do you create characters who...
by James Scott Bell
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
It's the best time on Earth to be a writer.
More writers are making money today than at any other time in history. For centuries few have been able to support themselves from the quill or the keyboard alone.
Not anymore. With the rise of ebooks and indie publishing there are now more...
by Rust Hills
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2000
Wise advice on plot, character, and style from a legendary Esquire editor: “Every aspiring fiction writer ought to read this.” —Writer’s Digest
Over the course of his long and colorful career as fiction editor for Esquire magazine, L. Rust Hills championed the early work of literary...
by Orhan Pamuk
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
From the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, an inspired, thoughtful, and deeply personal book about reading and writing novels.
In this fascinating set of essays, based on the talks he delivered at Harvard University as part of the distinguished Norton Lecture series, Pamuk presents a comprehensive...