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Fiction Writing Workbook
Your complete fiction writing formula
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Your complete step-by-step formula for writing your own fiction, short stories, full novels, children’s books and memoirs.
Packed with vital information, practical activities and writing exercises all aimed at helping you to develop your plots and characters.
All aspects...
by Simon Basher, Mary Budzik
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
From the bestselling illustrator whose friendly take on science has revolutionized our understanding of everything from the periodic table to the universe, comes a fresh take on creative writing as only Basher can do it. Meet Plot, one of the many 'Schemers and Dreamers' who keeps a story running...
by Autran Dourado
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 27, 2000
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 27, 2000
Um artista aprendiz pode ser lido como um manual de composição e estilo ou como a história da formação literária e filosófica de Autran Dourado: "É a minha vida fantasiada, o meu romance pessoal."
O personagem João da Fonseca Nogueira parte da pequena cidade de Duas Pontes, cenário...
Being True to Life
Poetic Paths to Personal Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Psychotherapist David Richo offers a fresh and inspiring approach to personal growth: we can use the process of writing and reading poetry to move toward greater self-understanding and emotional healing. Even if you’ve never written a poem before, you can learn to use poetry to explore your feelings,...
by Robert McDowell
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Sonnets are among the most admired and daunting poems in the English language. In his Sonnets: How To Write Them in Minutes, noted poet and teacher Robert McDowell flawlessly explains and demonstrates the characteristics of the English, Italian and Spenserian sonnets and provides excellent examples...
by John Dufresne
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
An engaging and frank guide to writing the very short story, full of sound advice, exemplary models, and provocative exercises.
The history of fiction has been dominated by the novel and the short story. But now a brave new genre has emerged: very brief fiction. FLASH! identifies the qualities...
Explore Poetry!
With 25 Great Projects
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Poems can be silly, serious, or fun, just like kids! Whether it's the sing-song rhythm of a limerick, the serendipitous magic of a found poem, the deceptive simplicity of a haiku, or the easy familiarity of an acrostic poem, children are charmed by poetry. And what's more fun than reading poetry?...
The Writer's Source Book
Inspirational ideas for your creative writing
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Is your creative writing in need of inspiration? Do you need confidence to create watertight plots and believable characters?
The Writer's Source Book provides dozens of practical exercises to help you create storylines, craft people and generate ideas, with support and creative insight for...
The Everything Writing Poetry Book
A Practical Guide To Style, Structure, Form, And Expression
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
'Poetry is what gets lost in translation.' --Robert Frost
Giving voice to ''what gets lost in translation'' is the challenge every poet faces. With The Everything Writing Poetry Book, that challenge just got easier. Featuring examples from works of celebrated poets and instruction on communicating...
by Robert Burns
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The Reward is a love story of two people brought together by the December 6, 1917, Halifax explosion, where over two thousand people were killed and more than six thousand people were severely injured. The explosion provides the backdrop for how two people, Blanche and Hugo, met and fell in love....
The Dancer and the Dance
A Book of Distinctions
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Jack Foley’s The Dancer and the Dance: A Book of Distinctions deliberately challenges many conventional ways of thinking about poetry. Though extremely scholarly and aware of the “tradition,” Foley offers readings rooted in a consciousness which is simultaneously non academic and open to the...
The Weekend Novelist Writes a Mystery
From Empty Page to Finished Mystery in Just 52 Weekends--A Dynamic Step-by-Step Program
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Like Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, Sara Paretsky and Thomas Harris, you, too, can learn the trade secrets of quality detective fiction.
It's true. Just one year from now, you can deliver a completed mystery novel to a publisher--by writing only on weekends. Authors Robert J. Ray...
The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry
Poems, Poets, Process
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The venture of this inviting collection is to look, from the many vantages that the 35 poets in this eclectic anthology chose to look, at what it was—knowing that a poem can’t be conceived in advance of its creation—that helped their poems to emerge or connected them over time. The Rag-Picker's...
Writing in Community
Say Goodbye to Writer's Block and Transform Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Writing in Community is a book of inspiration and encouragement for writers who want to reach deep within themselves and write to their fullest potential. There is magic in a successful writing group. This book helps writers tap into that magic, and with gentle wisdom and humor, experience unprecedented breakthroughs in creativity.