Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
by Sharon Ng Thake
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
This is a composition based on a Continuous Writing question given in the English PSLE paper (1998). The narrator was treated unfairly by someone in the family. He or she was blamed for something that was not his or her fault.
Teacher’s note: My pupil, a highly-imaginative 12-year-old, gave...
To Light a Fire
20 Years with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
The InsideOut Literary Arts Project (iO) began in 1995 in five Detroit high schools, with weekly classroom visits by a writer-in-residence, the publication of a literary journal for each school, and the mission of encouraging students to use poetry to “think broadly, create bravely, and share their...
Analyze Anything
A Guide to Critical Reading and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
How well can you decode the signs that permeate our daily lives? All of us, consciously or not, constantly engage in the acts of reading and interpreting the signs in the world around us. But how do we sharpen these skills, deepen our awareness of meaning in a complex world, and ultimately reach our...
Communicating Creativity
The Discursive Facilitation of Creative Activity in Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This book provides an extensive and original analysis of the way that written and spoken communication facilitates creative practice in the university art and design studio. Challenging the established view of creativity as a personal attribute which can be objectively measured, the author demonstrates...
Write Away
One Writer's Approach to the Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Bestselling author Elizabeth George has spent years teaching writing, and in Write Away she shares her knowledge of the creative process. George combines clear, intelligent, and functional advice on fiction writing with anecdotes from her own life, the story of her journey to publication, and inside...
If You Want to Write
A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
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But we must try to find our True Conscience, our True Self, the very Center, for this is the only first-rate choice-making center. Here lies all originality, talent, honor, truthfulness, courage and cheerfulness. Here lies the ability to choose...
by Lawrence Block
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Characters refusing to talk? Plot plodding along? Where do good ideas come from anyway? In this wonderfully practical volume, two-time Edgar Award-winning novelist Lawrence Block takes an inside look at writing as a craft and as a career.
From studying the market, to mastering self-discipline...
The African American Writer's Handbook
How to Get in Print and Stay in Print
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
With African Americans writing and buying books in record numbers, the time is ripe for a comprehensive publishing guide tailored expressly to the needs of this vibrant, creative community. The African American Writers Handbook meets this challenge perfectly. Written by veteran journalist and published...
Business and Finance Social Media Prompts
200+ Prompts For Authors (For Blogs, Facebook, and Twitter)
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Writing a 60,000 word book? Piece of cake. Writing a 140 character tweet? Awkward silence. On the surface social media seems easy--just say what’s on your mind! But saying what’s on your mind rarely leads to more followers, and frequently even leads to unfollows. The creative minds behind the...
The Five-Minute Writer
Exercise and inspiration in creative writing in five minutes a day
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
Suitable for writers, this title includes chapters that offers a writing-related discussion, followed by a five-minute exercise. Five minutes a day spent on an exercise is one of the most effective methods there is to expand your potential and develop self-discipline.
How Musicals Work
And How to Write Your Own
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Musicals are the most popular form of stage entertainment today, with the West End and Broadway dominated by numerous long-running hits. But for every Wicked or Phantom of the Opera, there are dozens of casualties that didn't fare quite so well. In this book, Julian Woolford explores the musical-theatre...
How to Write Like Tolstoy
A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
For anyone who has ever identified with a hero or heroine, been seduced by a strong opening sentence, or been powerfully moved by a story’s end, How to Write Like Tolstoy is a thought-provoking journey inside the minds of the world’s most accomplished storytellers, from Shakespeare to Stephen...
Write from the Heart
Unleashing the Power of Your Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
In his first edition of Write from the Heart, Hal Zina Bennett presented a spiritual approach to writing that showed both beginners and seasoned authors how to overcome blocks, unleash their creative voice, and see their books in print. In this edition, he gives readers an even more interactive experience...
Advice to the Writer
The Writer's Guide to Plot, Revision, and Autobiography: A Digital Pamphlet: Excerpted from The Modern Library's Writer's Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
From Stephen Koch, former chair of Columbia University’s graduate creative writing program, comes essential and practical advice drawn from The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop.
With nearly thirty years of teaching experience, Stephen Koch has earned a reputation as an astute and benevolent...