Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences
A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
In this wickedly humorous manual, language columnist June Casagrande uses grammar and syntax to show exactly what makes some sentences great—and other sentences suck.
Great writing isn’t born, it’s built—sentence by sentence. But too many writers—and writing guides—overlook this...
Creating Extraordinary Characters
a simple, practical approach to creating unforgettable characters
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Scarlett O'Hara, Anne Shirley, Wilbur the pig, Katniss Everdeen. Why do we love these characters? Why do we remember them long after we've forgotten the details of their stories? In this second book in the Writing Lessons from the Front series, Angela Hunt explains how you can create unforgettable...
by Roz Morris
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Troubleshooting your fictional characters? Inventing a new person for your novel? This on-the-go checklist will help you hit the ground running. More than 100 tips from an expert editor, fiction ghostwriter and writing coach whose sales exceed 4 million copies.
'Nail Your Novel is like a personal...
by Angela Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Unlocking the mystery behind POINT OF VIEW: why is point of view important to a novelist, and how can we make sure we're using it correctly? Which serves the story better--first person, third person, omniscient, or the quirky second? Using thirty years of writing experience, Angela Hunt presents a...
by Arthur Herzog
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Arthur Herzog teaches a practical approach to writing based on his belief that at least 75% of the writing process is proper preparation. "Discipline is half the battle," The concise painless method Herzog has patterned leads the neophyte or the pro through five steps to better writing. The ability...
Let It Bleed
How to Write a Rockin' Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Author of the international bestseller I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, Pamela Des Barres shares with women the art of memoir writing.
For the last fourteen years, Pamela Des Barres has been teaching an eight-week women's "femoir" writing workshop. She found that the music-loving...
by James Scott Bell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Ramp up the tension and keep your readers hooked! Inside you'll find everything you need to know to spice up your story, move your plot forward, and keep your readers turning pages. Expert thriller author and writing instructor James Scott Bell shows you how to craft scenes, create characters, and...
The Great Spring
Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
From beloved writing teacher and author of the best-selling Writing Down the Bones: a treasury of personal stories reflecting a life filled with journeys—inner and outer—zigzagging around the world and home again.
Here, Natalie Goldberg, "a writer both energized and enlightened"...
Boost Your Creativity
Self Help
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Thank you for your interest in the for self help series.
The self help series is a series of books aimed and designed for your personal development and to help you improve in various aspects of your life. As such the books are more like booklets in that they are short but made so that they...
Now Write! Mysteries
Suspense, Crime, Thriller, and Other Mystery Fiction Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
The essential handbook for writers of whodunits, techno- thrillers, cozies, and everything in between-featuring never-before- published personal writing exercises from some of today's bestselling and award-winning mystery writers.
Now Write! Mysteries, the fourth volume in the acclaimed Now...
by K.M. Weiland
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
2 Bestselling Guides Packed With Tips to Help You Brainstorm and Plan Your Best Story
From Award-Winning and Internationally Published Writing Mentor K.M. Weiland
With over 300 pages of step-by-step guidance, these two individual books have helped thousands of authors write better books.
Can...
Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy
Advice and Confessions on Writing, Love, and Cannibals
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy,
I have a hot crush on the em dash. What does my need to stuff—while simultaneously fracturing—my sentences—with the meandering, the explanatory, the discursive, the perhaps not-entirely-necessary—say about me?
—Cheryl Strayed
Have you ever wished there...
The Creativity Book
A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2000
Whatever you do, says Dr. Eric Maisel, creativity helps you do it better. Creativity encourages the artist to paint more frequently and authentically. It allows a busy executive to see her options more quickly, make changes more fluidly, and become more self-directing and confident.
In this...
by Dan Price
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
When nomad artist and free spirit Dan Price began jotting down his musings in the form of whimsical drawings and inspired prose, he hardly could have imagined that his self-published journal-zine, the MOONLIGHT CHRONICLES, would earn him a cult following across the country. Now in its twentieth edition,...