Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
Writing What People Buy
101+ Projects That Get Results
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2002
This book is for writing instructors and writers on 101 writing projects to write and sell or to create internships and externships and/or writing jobs or assignments and projects. What Will You Write?
If you ever thought that you don't know what to write, you will now. And you will be able...
by Brian Huot
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Brian Huot's aim for this book is both ambitious and provocative. He wants to reorient composition studies' view of writing assessment. To accomplish this, he not only has to inspire the field to perceive assessment--generally not the most appreciated area of study--as deeply significant to theory...
Creative Writing and Stylistics
Creative and Critical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Exploring the practice of writing through stylistics, Jeremy Scott draws on the work of writers and theorists to show how stylistic techniques can help writers enhance their own fiction. Negotiating the creative-critical crossover, this book helps students develop practical writing skills and a critical awareness of creative possibilities.
by May Sarton
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
May Sarton’s lifetime of work as a poet, novelist, and essayist inform these illuminating reflections on the creative life
In “The Book of Babylon,” May Sarton remarks that she is not a critic—except of her own work. The essay addresses questions that have haunted Sarton’s own creative...
by Brenda Miller, Suzanne Paola
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Five stars for Tell It Slant ... An enlightening, comprehensive, and very satisfying text on writing and shaping creative nonfiction."
--Sheila Bender, editor and publisher of writingitreal.com and author of Writing and Publishing Personal Essays
When the poet Emily Dickinson wrote, "Tell...
You Can't Make This Stuff Up
The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction--from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
From "the godfather behind creative nonfiction" (Vanity Fair) comes this indispensable how-to for nonfiction writers of all levels and genres, "reminiscent of Stephen King's fiction handbook On Writing" (Kirkus).
Whether you're writing a rags-to-riches tell-all memoir or...
Writing the Wave
Inspired Rides for Aspiring Writers
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Where's your wave of creativity? If you want to learn how to write, "Writing the Wave: Inspired Rides for Aspiring Writers" is the very first writing book designed especially for beginning writers who yearn to write more expressively. Written with warmth and wit by internationally acclaimed writer and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
This book explores the effectiveness of the workshop in the Creative Writing classroom, and looks beyond the question of whether or not the workshop works to address the issue of what an altered pedagogical model might look like. In visualising what else is possible in the workshop space, the sixteen...
Writer's Block Unblocked
Seven Surefire Ways to Free Up Your Writing and Creative Flow
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
You don't have to experience writer's block. Ever! You don’t have to sweat over a blank page. You don’t have to wonder where your next word is coming from. You can write -- naturally, eloquently and flowingly. Become one of Mark David's many writer's-block success stories: Free up your creative...
by DONNELLY, Dianne
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
This book advances creative writing studies as a developing field of inquiry, scholarship, and research. It discusses the practice of creative writing studies, the establishment of a body of professional knowledge, and the goals and future direction of the discipline within the academy.
by Kate Walker
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2013
A totally new way to Teach & Learn story craft & creative writing. Exercises honed in the classroom by a well-published, professional author. For Teachers - Home Schoolers - Young Solo Writers. No pre-class prep. Open the book & read. Sample download will give you the intro plus Exercise...
Write a Novel in 10 Minutes a Day
Acquire the habit of writing fiction every day
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
LEARN HOW TO WRITE FICTION BY WRITING EVERY DAY
Would you like to write but have no spare time?
Do you not know where to begin?
Write A Novel In 10 Minutes A Day will help you sculpt a full-length piece of creative writing in just ten minutes a day. Starting with a daily practical...
Screenplays
How to Write and Sell Them
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
An accessible yet comprehensive guide aimed at those with a keen interest in writing feature film screenplaysUsing case studies, creative exercises, and interviews from the industry, this book will guide readers through the necessary stages of writing a screenplay, from finding and developing ideas...
Writers Have No Age
Creative Writing for Older Adults, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Writers Have No Age: Creative Writing for Older Adults, Second Edition is a book for writers by writers. Unlike the first edition, which was aimed at teachers of writing, this edition is aimed at writers themselves. This book will help older writers value themselves and their potential, and increase...