Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
In the Blue Pharmacy
Essays on Poetry and Other Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Collected here are sixteen essays on poets and poetry, the writing life, and a host of fascinating topics that come into the wide range of Marianne Boruch’s attention. She examines how the imagination works with mystery and surprise in a variety of poets from Elizabeth Bishop to Theodore Roethke, from...
Compass Points
Creating Meaningful Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Poor dialogue is one of the main reasons for a publisher’s reader glazing over when reading a first-time novel, where the author has seen fit to include every superfluous utterance of every-day speech. The purpose of dialogue is to move the story along and to give added dimension to the characters...
Screenwriting in The Land of Oz
The Wizard on Writing, Living, and Making It In Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
Set your sights on a screenwriting career-and you know you're not in Kansas anymore. With some 100,000 original screenplays vying to be among the 7,000 few made into movies every year, craft is key and competition is fierce. Enter the Wizard: Award-winning screenwriter and playwright and acclaimed...
Write to the Point
A Master Class on the Fundamentals of Writing for Any Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Good writers follow the rules. Great writers know the rules—and follow their instincts!
Finding the right words, in the right order, matters—whether you’re a student embarking on an essay, a job applicant drafting your cover letter, an employee composing an email . . . even a (hopeful)...
Becoming Southern Writers
Essays in Honor of Charles Joyner
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Edited by southern historians Orville Vernon Burton and Eldred E. Prince, Jr., Becoming Southern Writers pays tribute to South Carolinian Charles Joyner’s fifty year career as a southern historian, folklorist, and social activist. Exceptional writers of fact, fiction, and poetry, the contributors...
The Country Writer's Craft
Writing For Country, Regional & Rural Publications
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Country Writer s Craft: Writing for country, regional and rural publications, covers one of the widest marketplaces for writers in the English-speaking world especially in the UK, Australia and the USA. Here we have examples of previously published materials, together with writers exercises to help build...
Writing
The Nature, Development, and Teaching of Written Communication
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
First Published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Danielle Lincoln Hanna
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
Your life is not boring. It is the key to great fiction.How do you capture that spark of life that lifts your story off the page and resonates with readers in their very soul? You delve into your own soul and learn how to wrap words around your unique human experience, that’s how. And the...
by Angela Booth
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Want to write page-turning fiction? All authors do; no one sets out to write a boring novel.Your readers want to enter your novel's world. They want to experience your book -- they want to live your book with your main characters.In short, they want to be entertained. Sadly the gap between...
Making Sense in the Social Sciences
A Student's Guide to Research and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Part of the bestselling Making Sense series, this sixth edition of Making Sense in the Social Sciences is an indispensable guide for students in any area of the discipline. Maintaining the signature straightforward style of the series, this book offers up-to-date, detailed information on proper documentation...
by Ashley Lister
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Whether you're writing a steamy erotic novel, or a romantic novel and want to take the reader beyond the bedroom door, writing a convincing sex scene can be one of the most difficult challenges for any fiction writer. How to Write Erotic Fiction and Sex Scenes is a practical guide to help every writer rise to this challenge.
New Worlds, Year One
A Writer's Guide to the Art of Worldbuilding
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Step into a world of your own making . . .
Worldbuilding is one of the great pleasures of writing science fiction and fantasy -- and also one of its greatest challenges. Award-winning fantasy author Marie Brennan draws on her academic training in anthropology to peel back the layers of a setting,...
Authors Access
30 Success Secrets for Authors and Publishers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
The industry's most experienced veterans are ready to share their hard-won success secrets with you about...
Editing and working with an editor
Writing effective prose
Marketing your product
Amazon programs and Amazon Kindle
Book Proposals that work
Exploiting...
by Phyllis Irene Radford
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Award-winning science fiction and fantasy author of more than 29 books and editor, Phyllis Irene Radford (Irene Radford, P.R. Frost, C.F. Bentley), gives you the tools to writing the best novel possible in this book. Learn how to really write a synopsis, realistic characters, and even how to get through...