Writing Skills category: 1537 books

Quiet you’ve been for far too long; yet those ideas, those dreams that you hold dear burn with a fiery intensity. It is time to let them out, and for your voice to be heard. Now. Set it free. Approximately 3,500 words.

Information, advice, and tips to help you decide between Self-Publishing or Traditional Publishing, and to then get you started on your road to publication.This detailed information gives contacts, lists, cheat sheets, and checklists that can be reproduced over and over again, helping set goals that...

Do commas confuse you and do colons leave you clueless? Do you know the basics but are missing the finer points? Do you have a good grasp of punctuation but run into an occasional challenge where you aren’t sure of what to do?Whatever your level of expertise may be, Punctuation for Fiction...

This set of world building classes provides a few tricks for both physical and cultural world building and includes exercises, examples and many questions to answer about your own work. This set of classes will help science fiction and fantasy writers, however the cultural aspects and conflicts can...

So, you have decided to self-publish your book? First off, congratulations on completing your first manuscript! Whether you have written a novel, novella, short story, or a guide, you have done something amazing. Take a second and congratulate yourself on this accomplishment. Now, you need...

Drawing on Provost's proven philosophies, Rubie examines every facet of storytelling, from narrative hooks to fulfilling climaxes. Through advice, exercises, and an outstanding array of examples, you'll learn to create gripping narratives powered by strong characters. You'll discover the secrets of...

Goede verhalen zijn spannend, boeiend, fascinerend. Maar hoe bereik je dat? Jan Brokken geeft les aan jonge schrijvers. Getuige De wil en de weg doet hij dat op een meeslepende manier. Brokken put uit eigen ervaring, als schrijver en als journalist. Hij interviewde tientallen schrijvers in binnen-en...

Na De wil en de weg, volgens Mark Schaevers in Humo het interessantste schrijvershandboek dat in ons taalgebied op de markt is, richt Jan Brokken zich in Het hoe tot de meer gevorderde schrijvers. Het componeren van een boek staat centraal in Het hoe, waarbij het Brokken niet uitmaakt of het een roman,...

Take your story to the next level of excellence! You've completed the first draft of your novel--now what? Chances are, it's not perfect...at least not yet. In order to increase your chances of getting a literary agent, selling your manuscript to a  publisher, or garnering an audience for...

Former soldier and Desert Storm veteran Linda Maye Adams walks step-by-step to help the civilian fiction writer understand how military culture works. From enlistment to war, this book takes you on a tour of what it’s like to be a soldier. Do soldiers curse non-stop? Do they always yell, “Yes,...

Writers often stray from the reality of the legal system because we think we know about the law from watching television and movies and reading mystery novels. Unfortunately many dramatizations of criminal investigations and legal proceedings more closely resemble The Three Stooges slapstick reel...

The advice in this book was gleaned from four years of Writer's Digest articles, from 1998 to 2001. At that time I was incarcerated and, unable to keep the magazines with me, I took to condensing the advice onto notepaper.

"As artists, our messages are one of the main reasons we share our work. In this book, Mary teaches us how to write stories that capture the attention of our audiences while effectively conveying our messages." - Vanessa K. Eccles, Bound & Brewed **Are you a secular writer who...

This book is for writer's to cherry-pick body language for their characters. It does what says on the cover - it's an A-Z list of emotions, attitudes and feelings with the associated body language. Updated version. Now with a linked Table of Contents and Index.