Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
Your Child's Writing Life
How to Inspire Confidence, Creativity, and Skill at Every Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
An illuminating, first-of-its-kind resource to help parents foster a love of writing in their child's life.
New educational research reveals that writing is as fundamental to a child's development as reading. But though there are books that promote literacy, no book guides parents in helping...
Storytelling for Pantsers
How to Write and Revise Your Novel Without an Outline
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Are you a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants writer? Hungry for a book that shows you how to write and revise your novel without an outline?Discover the secret sauce to help those of us seat-flyers get at least some grounding in what we do, and to find and use a system in the chaos that is pantsing.This...
by Anne Ellen Geller, Michele Eodice
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The imperative to write and to publish is a relatively new development in the history of academia, yet it is now a significant factor in the culture of higher education. Working with Faculty Writers takes a broad view of faculty writing support, advocating its value for tenure-track professors,...
Successful Academic Writing
A Complete Guide for Social and Behavioral Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Using rich examples and engaging pedagogical tools, this book equips students to master the challenges of academic writing in graduate school and beyond. The authors delve into nitty-gritty aspects of structure, style, and language, and offer a window onto the thought processes and strategies that...
by Patti Miller
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Drawing on Patti Miller's ten-year 'Writing your Life' experience, this new expanded and revised edition includes a wonderful collection of life stories. Everyone can write a life story. If you have dreamed by childhood creeks, had coffee with a friend, watched the sun rise after a partner...
by Constance Hale
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
"Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch is more than just a writing handbook; it’s a key to unlocking every writer’s innate creativity by offering countless paths to verbal expressiveness." —San Francisco Chronicle
Great sentences pivot on great verbs. In Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch, Constance...
Use Your Words
A Myth-Busting, No-Fear Approach to Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Want to write? Got a memoir, novel, screenplay or blog in your back drawer? Need to get ‘unstuck’? This is the magic pill you’ve been looking for.
In Use Your Words writer and comedian Catherine Deveny reveals the secrets that have made her ‘Gunnas’ Writing Masterclasses sell-out...
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...
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...
Complete Writing For Children Course
Develop your children's writing from idea to publication
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Designed to take you from the moment you first put pen to paper to the point at which you are ready to start contacting publishers (or uploading an ebook file), this is the most important book on writing children's books you'll ever read. It introduces you to the craft of writing for children, the...
Fiction Writing Workbook
Your complete fiction writing formula
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Your complete step-by-step formula for writing your own fiction, short stories, full novels, children’s books and memoirs.
Packed with vital information, practical activities and writing exercises all aimed at helping you to develop your plots and characters.
All aspects...
by Everett Ofori
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Guaranteed Formula for Writing Success will allow you to learn how to:1. Grab your reader's attention from the get-go2. Write clear, crisp copy3. Make your meaning clear4. Make your writing sing5. Create believable characters and scenarios6. Transform your mind into an idea factory7. Perk up pompous,...
Fiction Writing
How to Use Writing for Personal Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Do you prefer to help yourself work through issues? Try fiction writing as a therapy technique today!
Instead of spending an arm and a leg or two on therapy bills have you ever considered writing as a vent for your inner turmoil? It may not work for everyone but you could be surprised at what...
by Maria Mazziotti Gillian
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Writing Poetry to Save Your Life combines Gillan's personal story about her journey as a writer with her suggestions for writers at all stages of development. The voice in this book is the voice of a friend who sits with you in a warm kitchen sipping espresso or a cup of herbal tea, while offering...