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A collection of selected writings by author Penny Colman, including blog posts and book talks that elucidate aspects of her process for writing "Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship that Changed the World," a historical nonfiction narrative for all ages. Organized into six parts...

The best writing tool is the one you've got with you. For a lot of us writers, that means the iPad. It is easy to write on the iPad, but harder to make it work well. With writing apps to fit your style and needs, the right accessories, and helpful tools for research, you could end up realizing...

Co-writing can be an amazing experience when two minds come together to create something new in the world. Or it can be a painful process that ends in disaster! In this short book, bestselling authors J. Thorn and Joanna Penn share tips on how to successfully co-write a book and avoid the pitfalls...

The author is a retired Indian Foreign Service career diplomat and the series captures vivid experiences from his four decades of service. In this book, the author traces the start of his career as a young man from south India crossing the seas to begin his career in the British-administered states...

The Craft of Fiction contains the distilled wisdom and unique insights of a prolific author and talented English professor—that teaches the craft and craftsmanship of writing fiction. Adopted by many colleges and universities, it is a succinct, seminal work. Written in a down-to-earth,...

Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s love of nature and incorporation of related themes in his poems could stem from his years of imprisonment and being cut off from the outside, natural world and the freedom and connectedness that that represents to him. Faiz also uses nature as a tool to describe the feelings associated...

"...the very thing I struggle with every single day (Parkinson's disease); is the same thing that enables me to write - paradoxicity methings - Kevin. "I Forgot That I Remembered" provides a glimpse into the day to day challenges of a person living with a chronic disease. Kevin...

The root or moral of Backdoor Yoga is really a concept that “Man”has been searching for from the beginning of time. If you look at God or the Soul, they have always been a formidable quest right up there with the Holy Grail. The Moral of my story is to meet your own Soul, the God within. Awakening...

Part textbook and part handbook, From 'Huh?' to 'Hurray!': Righting Your Creative Writing leads creative writers of all levels and all genres through the entire writing process. This accessible guide offers helpful suggestions to prompt and encourage even the most blocked writers to explore and develop...

In today’s episode, we’re going to cover how to go about putting together and writing your book, your eBook or your Kindle book, in 3 hours or less. Let’s face it. We want a book and hardly any of us have the time to actually write a book. Anything that can manifest that result quickly – in...

“The Sunless Parlour”. Notes, stories and translations by author of the novels "Forever Jocelyn", and "Silver Thread Spinner." Oscar Wilde, Tolstoy, Kuzmin, Clodt, Henri de Regnier, Verlaine, Chekhov, Stéphane Mallarmé, poetry, humor. “…in a sunless parlour where an old...

Volume 12 of A Café in Space features excerpts from Anais Nin's unpublished diary revealing the truth about the famous "come as your madness" party in 1953, at which Nin's daring costume caused a sensation and where Kenneth Anger got inspiration for his underground classic film "Inauguration...

The complete guide to turning romances into cash. Romance novels are the top-selling genre in fiction. How can aspiring writers break into this lucrative field? With Writing the Great American Romance Novel, the most complete guide to writing that novel, getting it published, working with editors,...

This is an EXCERPT from the book Creative Writing Career: Becoming a Writer of Movies, Video Games, and Books.  This section comprises the entire section on book writing (fiction and non-fiction), to include author interviews, and is Part Six of the book.