Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
by Jule Selbo
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Film Genre for the Screenwriter is a practical study of how classic film genre components can be used in the construction of a screenplay. Based on Jule Selbo’s popular course, this accessible guide includes an examination of the historical origins of specific film genres, how and why these genres...
A Story That Matters
A Gratifying Approach to Writing About Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
No matter who you are, your story is a part of something big—the fabric of history and the human experience. Once written and shared, your story will change someone. And that someone is most likely you. A Story that Matters offers an accessible and simplified way to get your stories written. Each...
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
These have been called the most famous and beloved letters of the past century. Rainer Maria Rilke himself said that much of his creative expression went into his correspondence, and here he touches upon a wide range of subjects that will interest writers, artists,and thinkers. This luminous translation...
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...
Writing Active Hooks Book 1: Action, Emotion, Surprise and More
Writing Active Hooks, #1
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Many writers have heard of hooks, and have heard we should use them in our manuscripts as a tool to engage readers and keep them engaged, but what we’re not told is how to identify what a hook is or where to use them to maximize them other than in that key opening line.
In this book we’ll look...
Writing From Life
How to turn your personal experience into profitable prose
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
This book will show you how your own personal experiences can provide you with an endless supply of ideas for your writing - whether fiction or non-fiction. You will learn how to write about what you know - and you certainly know a lot. The good news is that the older you are, and the older you get,...
by Donald Maass
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Take your fiction to the next level!
Maybe you're a first-time novelist looking for practical guidance. Maybe you've already been published, but your latest effort is stuck in mid-list limbo. Whatever the case may be, author and literary agent Donald Maass can show you how to take your prose...
Thanks, But This Isn't for Us
A (Sort of) Compassionate Guide to Why Your Writing is Being Rejected
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
A fun, practical guide that reveals the essentials of good fiction and memoir writing by exposing the most common mistakes literary writers make.
All great works of fiction and memoir are unique-but most bad novels, stories, and memoirs have a lot in common. From clunky dialogue to poorly sketchedout...
Writing for TV and Radio
A Writers' and Artists' Companion
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This essential companion offers invaluable insights and solid, practical guidance to those keen to write for TV and radio.
PART 1 explores the nature of the media. It looks at the history of writing drama and comedy for radio and TV through a consideration of its key elements and some of the...
by Ruth Behar, David Bleich
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2004
Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines reveals the extraordinary breadth of the intellectual movement toward self-inclusive scholarship. Presenting exemplary works of criticism incorporating personal narratives, this volume brings together twenty-seven essays from scholars in literary studies...
by Lawrence Block
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Lawrence Block, the award-winning crime fiction author, is almost as well known for his instructional books for writers, and contributed a monthly column on fiction to Writers Digest for 14 years. WRITING THE NOVEL was his first book for writers, and remained continuously in print since its original...
by Mitchell Ivers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Clear, concise, effective, THE RANDOM HOUSE GUIDE TO GOOD WRITING is for anyone who wishes to communicate well in writing. Mitchell Ivers shows us how to master the medium and the message with an array of features: Precise guidelines on word usage, grammar, and punctuation--and how to decide with...
Writing Historical Fiction
viewing the past through the lens of the present
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
"Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." George Santayana. Writing historical fiction involves more than taking a story and substituting carriages for cars. The historical novelist must do her best to understand the mindset of the people she writes about, even while...
The Forever Letter
Writing What We Believe For Those We Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
A forever letter is a gift that will be read over and over again
Inspired by the centuries-old Jewish tradition of the ethical will, a forever letter is a perfect way to share your most precious possessions: your values, wisdom, and love with the people who matter to you most. And you don't...