Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
by Bruce Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
An indispensable writing tool for authors.This Punctuation Primer contains generally accepted rules authors need to make reading clear, and enjoyable. This e-book is intended to be left open on the desktop as a ready reference while writing. It explains and provides examples for: Commas ...
How to Write About Music
Excerpts from the 33 1/3 Series, Magazines, Books and Blogs with Advice from Industry-leading Writers
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, you'd do best to hone your chops and avoid clichés (like the one that begins this sentence) by learning from the prime movers. How to Write About Music offers a selection of the best writers on what is perhaps our most universally beloved...
Elements of Fiction Writing - Characters & Viewpoint
Proven advice and timeless techniques for creating compelling characters by an award-winning author
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Vivid and memorable characters aren't born: they have to be made
This book is a set of tools: literary crowbars, chisels, mallets, pliers and tongs. Use them to pry, chip, yank and sift good characters out of the place where they live in your imagination.
Award-winning author Orson Scott...
by John Casey
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
For students and writers alike, a brilliant guide to the craft of writing by the National Book Award–winning author of Spartina.
National Book Award winner John Casey is a masterful novelist who is also an inspiring and beloved teacher. In Beyond the First Draft he offers essential and original...
Writing Thrillers
The Writer's Guide to Crafting Tales of Suspense
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
In this invaluable guide, thriller master Michael Newton shows you how to develop compelling plots and intriguing characters that grab readers from page 1 and won’t let them go. You’ll learn how to craft heroes and villains that are both believable and original and ground them in situations that...
Writing Active Setting Book 3: Anchoring, Action, as a Character and More
Writing Active Setting, #3
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
Learn to use Setting to quickly anchor the reader into the world of your story.
Use Setting as movement through space effectively.
Explore Setting in a series.
Learn the most common Setting pitfalls.
Readers usually remember the plot and characters of a story, but Setting is every bit as important...
by Damon Knight
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
A classic must-have for all readers and writers of science fiction!
Damon Knight effectively invented science fiction criticism. His reviews were not mere statements of his personal preferences—his skillful essays analyzed the books and told why they were good or bad, to the edification of...
by Low Kay Hwa
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Want to learn how to create convincing characters? Want to understand the key elements of a story?
Low Kay Hwa is a Singapore best-selling author, having published eleven novels. His novels have reached the bestsellers lists in both bookstore chains and national newspaper, and also...
How to Write Your Personal or Family History
(If You Don't Do It, Who Will?)
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
This is a practical-and encouraging-how-to book from a long-time teacher of personal and family history writing. Katie Funk Wiebe helps beginning memoir writers get started collecting the stories of their lives. She gives hints for recalling distant memories and tracking down family heirlooms. This...
Write Starts
Prompts, Quotes, and Exercises to Jumpstart Your Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
Even dedicated and experienced writers need what author and writing coach Hal Zina Bennett provides: a fresh, fun, surefire place to start. In this handy resource, practiced and aspiring writers alike will find inspiration and initiative in the form of prompts for brief writing exercises, story prompts...
by Kim Brittingham
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
If you want to put your life story down in words, where do you start? Exactly what story are you hoping to tell? How are you going to fill hundreds of pages? How do you plan it out? Memoirist, blogger, and writing teacher Kim Brittingham shares her insight into getting started with your writing and...
Create A Character Clinic
Holly Lisle's Writing Clinics, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
How do you invent great story people?
Readers fall in love with good characters,
while writers wreck their characters in countless ways.
Skip the wreckage. Learn to create characters your readers will love, and that you'll have fun writing.
Use this simple, step-by-step system...
by Jessica Bell
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Have you been told there's a little too much telling in your novel? Want to remedy it? Then this is the book for you!
In Show & Tell in a Nutshell: Demonstrated Transitions from Telling to Showing you will find sixteen real scenes depicting a variety of situations, emotions, and characteristics...
Master Lists for Writers
Thesauruses, Plots, Character Traits, Names, and More
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Get inspired...stay inspired. Write faster...write more! MASTER LISTS FOR WRITERS makes “show, don’t tell” much easier and helps you figure out your story more quickly. In this book, you’ll find: • lists of phrases for describing facial expressions, body language,...