Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
Plans and Processes
to get your book written
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
So you want to write a book . . . but you can't quite seem to get started. Or finished. Writing veteran Angela Hunt details areas and concepts you should consider before, during, and after the writing. This lesson discusses the work a writer should do away from his or her manuscript—conceptualizing,...
Telling Stories
The Craft of Narrative and the Writing Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
A prolific and award-winning writer, Lee Martin has put pen to paper to offer his wisdom, honed during thirty years of teaching the oh-so-elusive art of writing. Telling Stories is intended for anyone interested in thinking more about the elements of storytelling in short stories, novels, and memoirs....
by Laura Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
A must-have guide for writing at work, with practical applications for getting your point across quickly, coherently, and efficiently.
A winning combination of how-to guide and reference work, The Only Business Writing Book You’ll Ever Need addresses a wide-ranging spectrum of business communication...
When Good People Write Bad Sentences
12 Steps to Better Writing Habits
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
At last, help for writers who can admit they have a problem.
Do you get a lift by dangling a participle? Has your punctuation ever caused difficulties at home or at work? Do you consider yourself just a "social misspeller?"
These are just a few of the warning signs that you...
Writing to Awaken
A Journey of Truth, Transformation, and Self-Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Writing to Awaken is an inspirational investigation of the self through expressive writing, guiding you along the path of awakening through radical truth-telling and self-inquiry. With targeted and revelatory questions, you’ll be prompted to explore your own personal narrative—to write honestly...
by Bloomsbury Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
This bestselling guide to all areas of publishing and the media is completely revised and updated every year. The Yearbook is packed with advice, inspiration and practical guidance on who to contact and how to get published.
Foreword by Joanne Harris, bestselling author of 18 novels, including...
Write and Publish Your Own Book in 14 Days
The Undercover Guide to Becoming an Author on Your Annual Leave
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
Plan, write and publish your own book... in just two weeks. Smashing the myth that writing a book is a drawn-out challenge, this practical guide shows you how to achieve a lifetime's goal in as little as fourteen days. With practical tips on building outlines and fleshing them out, it...
Inciting Incident
How to Begin Your Screenplay or Novel and Captivate Audiences Right Away (While Accomplishing Your Long-Term Plotting Goals)
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2013
*** REVISED & EXPANDED EDITION
Does Your Story Beginning Set You Up For Success…or Failure?
Beginnings are agonizing to write.
So much is at stake.
If you start your story in the wrong place, if it’s boring or bogged down by exposition, audiences will abandon...
Thinking On The Page
A College Student's Guide to Effective Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Take Charge of Your Writing--and Dazzle Your Instructors!
It can be a challenge to achieve writing excellence, but it doesn't have to be mysterious, and it's definitely not impossible. To present powerful ideas effectively in your college essays, you need to break away from rigid rules and...
Writing Feature Stories
How to research and write articles - from listicles to longform
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Good writing engages as it informs and feature journalism offers writers the opportunity to tell deep, affecting stories that look beyond the immediate mechanics of who, what, where and when and explore the more difficult-and more rewarding- questions: how and why? Whether you're a blogger, a news...
Writing a Novel
Bring Your Ideas To Life The Faber Academy Way
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Writing A Novel is not a set of rules and regulations. It is an atlas, a guide to finding your own way over the treacherous passes of your first novel.
Pulling together his years of experience as a novelist and a teacher, Richard Skinner covers the basics of writing great fiction - narrators,...
Book in a Month
The Fool-Proof System for Writing a Novel in 30 Days
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2008
What Can You Accomplish in 30 Days?
If you make time to write and put away all of your excuses, could you stay on track and finish your novel in only a month? With a structured plan and a focused goal, yes, you can!
Using a combination of flexible weekly schedules, focused instruction,...
by Arthur Groom
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The vintage book contains a complete guide to writing children's literature, and includes wealth of information on every aspect of writing books and plays for young people. Although old, the contents of this volume will be of considerable utility to modern readers with an interest in the subject....
Relocating Authority
Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Relocating Authority examines the ways Japanese Americans have continually used writing to respond to the circumstances of their community’s mass imprisonment during World War II. Using both Nikkei cultural frameworks and community-specific history for methodological inspiration and guidance, Mira...