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"How to Write a Great Script with Final Draft 9" is not a typical computer book tutorial. Flip open any computer book and you’ll typically see a thick tome crammed with information about every possible feature of a program in exhaustive detail. Such comprehensive detail makes most computer...

"Denny, long before he surfaced in my cove, was a legend well-known to me, a myth entitled: Best-Kept Boy in the World.”—Truman Capote   Denham (Denny) Fouts, the twentieth century's most famous male prostitute, was a socialite and literary muse whose extraordinary life started...

In this how-to ebook, bestselling author Nathan J Morissey spills his secrets on how to write good gay erotica and sell it too. Nathan's main source of income is writing and selling gay erotica, and in this ebook, he will tell you how to do it and stand apart from the crowd. He has sold...

Thirty-five of my BFF and I decided last year to write snippets of our lives, reflecting on how we used our mojo to survive and thrive. Many of us escaped adversity in our home countries, including the genocide of the Killing Fields in Cambodia, the Cuban Revolution, and the brutal life in the rural...

•Audience includes those who buy The Daramatists Sourcebook. •May be revised every 2-3 years. (Possibly an on-going project.

The room is so obscure as to be invisible, but at the back of the obscurity are French windows, through which is seen Lob's garden bathed in moon-shine. The Darkness and Light, which this room and garden represent, are very still, but we should feel that it is only the pause in which old enemies...

Le Songe d'une nuit d'été (A Midsummer Night's Dream) est une comédie de William Shakespeare écrite entre 1594 et 1595. La première inscription de la pièce au registre des Libraires date du 8 octobre 1600. C'est une histoire complexe dont l'action se déroule en Grèce et réunit pour...

I don't remember exactly when my formerly charming, humorous, omnipotent mother, who would swim a mile out into the ocean to get your beach ball in choppy seas, did the great recede. But she was a tide gradually but irrevocably washing out, she retreated, she receded, she drifted away, and there was...

When that baby's born . . . your life ceases being your life. That child owns every single one of your actions. Every breath of your body. Every dream that you ever had, Mrs. Top Two Percent, those dreams are sucked out of you and poured into the soul of that child. It's hard to pull yourself...

For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again is Tremblay’s homage to his mother, who nurtured his imagination, his reclusive reading habits and his love for the theatre and the arts, yet who did not live to witness the performance of Les Belles Soeurs-the first successful play written in joual with which Tremblay...

Last night I woke up and found that I was not at home. And I was not wearing my own clothes. And then I wasn't sure. Maybe they were my clothes, and I was someone else. In an unnamed American city, two strangers sell Christmas trees on the sidewalk; two cops work to solve a killing spree; and...

In spite of my desperation I have been patient, in spite of my bewilderment I have been understanding, in spite of my feeling of utter abandonment ... I've been hanging on in there. Trying to help you come through this terrible thing. While Eleanor wants a child, her willing partner, Richard,...

Difficult to know and impossible to forget, Ludwig Wittgenstein is remembered as the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century. He published only one book in his lifetime - a masterpiece that moulded the evolution of philosophy and baffled his teachers. Spanning most of his life, from his early...

Barbara J. Smith is the eldest of eight children of who all have a great sense of humor. She was born in Mobile. Alabama to Jellene and the late James Norwood Sr. Barbara graduated high school in 1967, and came to New York to work for the summer and never went back to Alabama to live. She married...