Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books

Have you got a great idea for a screenplay, but don't know how to write it visually? Then this book is for you. It will give you the vital information you need to know before you write your script; the vital techniques you need to learn when you're writing your script. But, more importantly, it will...

Through a series of short blog-posts, I have charted my progression through the often fraught and occasionally pleasurable process of bringing a novel to completion. And the inevitable pain of rejection. It was a journey thus laden with many anxieties and disappointments, which I am glad to share...

What's the most annoying thing about writing a novel? They don't write themselves.  What's the second most annoying thing about writing a novel? No, really, they don't write themselves.  What the hardest thing about writing a novel? Actually turning your sexy outline into a real book....

MYTH, MAGIC, and METAPHOR takes the reader on a journey. This book was not written to provide answers. It was written to provoke questions and ignite the imagination while examining history, art, literature, philosophy, mathematics, and music as components of the creative process. It is a voyage of...

The annual, bestselling guide to all aspects of the media and how to write and illustrate for children and young adults. Acknowledged by the media industries and authors as the essential guide to how to get published. The 70+ articles are updated and added to each year. Together they provide...

These days, your readers want series. That chance to revisit their favorite characters over and over, to see where their lives are going next. Television has spoiled them for long arcs of story spanning seasons, rather than episodes. You need to adapt to this new world. Learn to write...

A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators (2nd Edition) presents the major issues and questions in the field of writing program administration. The collection provides aspiring, new, and seasoned WPAs with the theoretical lenses, terminologies, historical contexts, and research they need to understand the nature, history, and complexities of their intellectual and administrative work.

Ideen lauern immer und überall, doch sie sind so flüchtig wie Pusteblumen in einem Sommersturm. Zudem weiß man nie, ob eine Idee, die im Moment unbrauchbar erscheint und die man einfach weiterwehen lässt, später nicht doch als Grundlage für ein solides kreatives Gewächs herausstellen könnte....

La scrittura è linguaggio, forma di comunicazione quindi si evolve in continuazione. Il metodo Writing Way è pensato per lo scrittore ma anche per tutti coloro che, per lavoro o per passione, scrivono. Ma dove sta la novità di questo metodo? Il risultato. “Questo ho potuto constatarlo sul campo....

Se sogni di scrivere, ma non hai ancora iniziato o se sei un autore esperto che ha bisogno di ritrovare la gioia dell’ispirazione con una fonte di illuminazione creativa e consapevole, questo è il libro giusto per te Per riuscire in ogni genere d’impresa, una delle abilità più importanti da...

In the voices of twenty landmark memoirists—including New York Times bestselling authors Cheryl Strayed, Sue Monk Kidd, and Pat Conroy—a definitive text on the craft of autobiographical writing, indispensable for amateur and professional writers alike. For readers of Mary Karr’s The Art...

**Named a Best Book by: TIME, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Wired, Esquire, Buzzfeed, New York Public Library, Boston Globe, The Paris Review, Mother Jones,The A.V. Club, Out Magazine, Book Riot, Electric Literature, **PopSugar, The Rumpus, My Republica, Paste, Bitch, Library Journal,...

Charles Baxter inaugurates The Art of, a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction. Fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter's The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot discusses and illustrates the...

*Over 90,000 copies sold* Long an anchor text for college and junior college writing classes, this illuminating and invaluable guide has become a favorite for beginning poets and an ever-valuable reference for more advanced students who want to sharpen their craft, expand their technical skills,...