Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
James A. Michener's Writer's Handbook
Explorations in Writing and Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener has written about everything from the pristine islands of the South Pacific and the endless wilds of Africa to Spanish bullfighters, American revolutionaries, and pirates of the Caribbean. Now Michener turns to his favorite and most personal subject:...
Your Life is a Book
How to Craft & Publish Your Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Everyone has a story to tell. Learn how to write your memoir and get published with the help of two well-known publishing professionals.Your Life is a Book guides budding writers though the transformative process of memoir writing to publication. In addition to exploring the unique elements of crafting...
Write the Book You Want
Be Your Own Coach
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Award-winning author, Valerie Haynes Perry, has written this book to help you maintain the clarity, self-confidence, and motivation you need to bring your own book into being. Write the Book You WantBe Your Own Coach is the third book in her writers trilogy. Its preceded by Listening Out LoudA Friend...
How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead
Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
This may come as a shock, but brilliant writing and clever wordplay do not a published author make. True, you’ll actually have to write if you want to be a writer, but ultimately literary success is about much more than putting pen to paper (or fingers to keys). Before you snap your pencil in half...
by Kris James
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Hook, Tagline, and Sinker is a guide for anyone who wants to learn how to write concise, targeted, catchy book descriptions.
Potential readers’ first introduction to your writing occurs when they experience your book description. Making that short pitch shine is critical to the success of...
Screenplay Workbook
The Writing Before the Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
An instructional manual combined with proprietary worksheets, charts and fill-in lists designed to give screenwriters a better way to focus on the task of writing a screenplay.
Writing Speculative Fiction: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
Teacher's Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This textbook develops an 18-week program designed to guide prospective students through creating their own speculative fiction story, that is, a science fiction, fantasy, or horror story. Designed for homeschoolers and small-school settings, this textbook draws on excerpts from dozens of speculative...
5-Day Fiction Fix: Creating Compelling Characters
How to Write Unforgettable Characters in a Week or Less
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
A simple, five-day process for writing complex characters readers will love -- or love to hate. Through case studies, insightful lessons, and writing exercises divided into five easy-to-follow daily plans, veteran editor and bestselling author Jen Blood shares her secrets for creating characters readers...
by Gillian Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Have you ever thought about writing a mystery, and gave up the idea because you didn't know where to begin? Now is your chance to write the mystery of your dreams. You Can Write a Mystery, written by Gillian Roberts, author of the Anthony Award-winning Amanda Pepper series, will help you start your mystery,...
by Rachel Ballon
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Create Convincing Characters That Readers-and Editors-Can't Resist!
It's the question that eternally plagues all good writers: How can you describe the thoughts and feelings of characters who have backgrounds or psychological aberrations with which you have no personal experience?
How can you...
Finish Your Book in Three Drafts
How to Write a Book, Revise a Book, and Complete a Book While You Still Love It
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
How do you write a book? Stuart Horwitz helps you do it in three drafts. Three drafts: that’s all you need. • The messy draft: which is all about getting it down. • The method draft: which is all about making sense. • The polished draft: which is all about making it good....
A Language and Power Reader
Representations of Race in a "Post-Racist" Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
A Language and Power Reader organizes reading and writing activities for undergraduate students, guiding them in the exploration of racism and cross-racial rhetorics.
Introducing texts written from and about versions of English often disrespected by mainstream Americans, A Language and Power...
Write Your Memoir
The Soul Work of Telling Your Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Drawing from more than 25 years of literary know-how and modeled after a 15-week college course, this manual provides guidance for seekers wishing to delve further into self-exploration through writing. Extending beyond the idea that memoir writing intends to put past events into a more understandable...
Write, Write, Write
7 Dynamite Instructional Articles for Those Who Want to Write Prose from Personal Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
This is a guide full of exercises and examples for achieving the kind of approach to writing from personal experience that will help you find wonderfully deep and surprising material! I write instruction like this every week for WritingItReal.com.I hope you'll enjoy the book!