Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books

YOU HAVE A BOOK IN YOU... It's time to let it out! Let Mark David Gerson show you how easy it can be, with... • Dynamic tools to get you started and keep you writing • Surefire techniques to spark new concepts, new content and new ideas • Compelling inspiration to keep you motivated,...

Full of both inspirational and practical advice, Writing Children's Fiction: A Writers' and Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing for some of the most difficult and demanding readers of all: children and young people. Part 1 explores the nature, history and challenges of children's...

Foreword by William Sutcliffe, author of Are you Experienced?, New Boy and We See Everything The indispensable guide to writing for children and young adults, this Yearbook provides inspirational articles from successful writers and illustrators, as well as practical advice on who to contact...

In the diversity of their clients as well as their professional and student staff, writing centers present a complicated set of relationships that inevitably affect the instruction they offer. In Facing the Center, Harry Denny unpacks the identity matrices that enrich teachable moments, and he explores...

You want to write a play but you have no idea how to start. This book will help you to enter the exciting world of scriptwriting step by step. What makes a good dramatic story? How do you get inspired?  What is the language of theatre? How do you create the most interesting, three-dimensional...

Does the idea of analysing theme leave you confused and bewildered? Are you an author seeking to understand the power of theme in your own writing? Or a student trying to grapple with theme in the classroom? How To Theme is here to help! In How To Theme, you will learn: * How...

Maxine Clair, award-winning author of the critically acclaimed short story collection Rattlebone and the novel October Suite, has assembled a deeply inspirational yet practical book to help readers access their inner creativity. Imagine This is a beautifully written set of deeply personal stories...

"The art of writing is a living business," declares Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in the Preface to this classic. "Literature is not a mere science, to be studied; but an art, to be practiced. Great as is our own literature, we must consider it as a legacy to be improved . . . if we persist in striving...

Readers pick up nonfiction books to learn something. They pick up novels to feel something: love, fear, joy, grief, elation, frustration, happiness, desperation, anger, despair, determination . . . or all of the above. We write novels to give readers a vicarious emotional experience. They want to...

In The Center Will Hold, Pemberton and Kinkead have compiled a major volume of essays on the signal issues of scholarship that have established the writing center field and that the field must successfully address in the coming decade. The new century opens with new institutional, demographic, and...

To write is a verb. That's an action word. No more procrastination. Almost everybody thinks they have a book in them or dreams of seeing their name on a front cover, but not everyone knows how to go about it. Sharing all she's learned so far, Fiona McIntosh, one of Australia's most successful commercial...

Make them take notice when you write. You can write better – whether you are a beginner or the office pro. Learn the universal format for writing anything. Featuring favorite New Yorker cartoons. – This updated edition features a new chapter on Social Media– The fun writing guidebook...

Teachers in English schools have now had ten years of prescriptive national literacy strategies and it is time for a new approach. This book encourages children from their early years to think of themselves as writers who have something to write and know how to write it. Creating Writers in...

This book is designed to be a valuable resource for all educators who seek to gain a better understanding of writing development, effective writing teaching practices, and meeting the instructional needs of struggling writers. Educators of all levels and career stages will then benefit from the extensive...