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Write and Publish Your Own Book in 14 Days
The Undercover Guide to Becoming an Author on Your Annual Leave
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
Plan, write and publish your own book... in just two weeks. Smashing the myth that writing a book is a drawn-out challenge, this practical guide shows you how to achieve a lifetime's goal in as little as fourteen days. With practical tips on building outlines and fleshing them out, it...
The Mobile Story
Narrative Practices with Locative Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
What happens when stories meet mobile media? In this cutting-edge collection, contributors explore digital storytelling in ways that look beyond the desktop to consider how stories can be told through mobile, locative, and pervasive technologies. This book offers dynamic insights about the new nature...
Computers and Writing
The Cyborg Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2004
In this book, James A. Inman explores the landscape of the contemporary computers and writing community. Its six chapters engage critical issues, including redefining the community's generally accepted history, connecting its contemporary innovators with its long-standing spirit of innovation, advocating...
Social Media in Disaster Response
How Experience Architects Can Build for Participation
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Social Media in Disaster Response focuses on how emerging social web tools provide researchers and practitioners with new opportunities to address disaster communication and information design for participatory cultures. Both groups, however, currently lack research toolkits for tracing participant...
by Tom Leveen
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Write a better book by watching classic films from the '70s, '80s, and '90s!
Why would an award-winning novelist and university-level writing instructor use movies as examples in his class instead of classic works of fiction? Frankly, because most people haven’t read classic works of fiction,...
Inciting Incident
How to Begin Your Screenplay or Novel and Captivate Audiences Right Away (While Accomplishing Your Long-Term Plotting Goals)
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2013
*** REVISED & EXPANDED EDITION
Does Your Story Beginning Set You Up For Success…or Failure?
Beginnings are agonizing to write.
So much is at stake.
If you start your story in the wrong place, if it’s boring or bogged down by exposition, audiences will abandon...
Story Climax
How to Avoid Disappointed Audiences and Craft a Screenplay or Novel Climax That Thrills & Delights
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014
Would you like to leap to the top of a reader’s “auto-buy” list? Or be added to Hollywood’s speed dial?
These dreams don’t have to remain idle fantasies.
They can become reality.
You can be an auto-buy for thousands of readers.
You can be on Hollywood’s speed...
Write a Bestselling Thriller
Strategies to write a book that thrills, enthralls and sells
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Write a Bestselling Thriller: Strategies to Get Your Book Published is a step by step guide to putting together an unputdownable narrative. It takes you on a journey through each component of the thriller, breaking the process down into key factors such as the Hero, the Trigger, the Story, Scenes...
The Soul of Place
A Creative Writing Workbook: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
In this engaging creative writing workbook, novelist and poet Linda Lappin presents a series of insightful exercises to help writers of all genres-literary travel writing, memoir, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction-discover imagery and inspiration in the places they love.
Lappin departs from...
The Author Is Not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else
Creative Writing after Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2008
Wandor has written the first history of Creative Writing in the UK, analyzing its complex relationship with English and literary theory. Erudite and provocative, the book presents a searching critique of Creative Writing pedagogy, arguing for new approaches. Indispensable for teachers, students and everyone concerned with the future of literature.
Fast Fiction
A Guide to Outlining and Writing a First-Draft Novel in Thirty Days
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Writers flock to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) each November because it provides a procrastination-busting deadline. But only a fraction of the participants meet their goal. Denise Jaden was part of that fraction, writing first drafts of two subsequently published novels in that tight time...
Music Production
For Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
The guidance of a skilled music producer will always be a key factor in producing a great recording. In that sense, as Michael Zager points out in his second edition of Music Production: For Producers, Composer, Arrangers, and Students, the job of a music producer is analogous to that of a film director,...
Pedagogies of Public Memory
Teaching Writing and Rhetoric at Museums, Memorials, and Archives
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Pedagogies of Public Memory explores opportunities for writing and rhetorical education at museums, archives, and memorials. Readers will follow students working and writing at well-known sites of international interest (e.g., the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and the U.S....
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:...