Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
The Playwright's Process
Learning the Craft from Today's Leading Dramatists
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Here is the first and only manual for playwrights ever designed to draw directly from the wisdom of leading contemporary dramatists. Interwoven with hundreds of quotations from the author's own in-depth interview series at the Dramatists Guild, in New York City, The Playwright's Process offers a fresh...
The Stuff of Fiction
Advice on Craft
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
In this book, prizewinning novelist and popular creative writing instructor Douglas Bauer (The Book of Famous Iowans) shares the secrets of his trade. Talent, as Bauer acknowledges, is the most crucial element for a writer and cannot be taught. But without a regular habit of work, and a perseverance...
by Derek Clendening
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
Do you need to write a short story for school or a creative writing class? Or do you want to write short stories just for fun? This guide will help you to write a short story today by offering you all the information you need in a compact guide.
Chapters include:
How to get an Idea...
Social Media Prompts for Authors
400+ Prompts for Authors (For Blogs, Facebook, and Twitter)
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 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...
Write Poetry Now
366 Prompts for Inspiring Your Poems
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Robert Brewer, editor of Writer's Market and author of the popular poetry blog Poetic Asides, compiles in this book all of his best, most popular and thought-provoking writing prompts for poets. The goal is to create new poems and this book provides 366 - enough for every day of the year! The world needs more poets. So get inspired, get creative, and start writing poetry - now!
Story Sparks
Finding Your Best Story Ideas and Turning Them into Compelling Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Find rock-solid story ideas before you start writing
Anyone who has been hamster-wheeling a story idea for years or has hundreds of pages exploring various approaches on their hard drive knows that there must be a better way. There is. Young adult novelist Denise Jaden shows exactly how to...
Admissions Essay Boot Camp
How to Write Your Way into the Elite College of Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Founder of elite college prep agency Mint Tutors, Ashley Wellington shares hard-hitting essay-writing advice tailored to each student's strengths and potential pitfalls, inspiring students to write as if guided by their own personal college admissions tutor.
Your Own Pocket Essay Tutor
Ever...
Pirates You Don't Know, and Other Adventures in the Examined Life
Collected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
For nearly ten years John Griswold has been publishing his essays in Inside Higher Ed, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Brevity, Ninth Letter, and Adjunct Advocate, many under the pen name Oronte Churm. Churm’s topics have ranged widely, exploring themes such as the writing life and the utility...
The Midnight Disease
The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Why is it that some writers struggle for months to come up with the perfect sentence or phrase while others, hunched over a keyboard deep into the night, seem unable to stop writing? In The Midnight Disease, neurologist Alice W. Flaherty explores the mysteries of literary creativity: the drive to...
by Tom Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
If language is, as Tom puts it, "a bright bird, uncatchable, but worth every attempt," this book is the lovingly prepared gilded cage, the single perfect feather caught in the net. If you have wondered what voice is, how to master it, how to free the storyteller within, this is your book....
Playing With Words
An Introduction to Creative Writing Craft
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Drawing on years of experience of writing, teaching and publishing, this book offers essential tools for anyone interested in honing their craft. With a variety of exercises and freewriting prompts to help you try new styles and approaches, it is suitable for aspiring poets, non-fiction writers, novelists and all lovers of words.
by Shyamala Shanmugasundaram
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
This book is useful for toddlers who cannot read, and are just beginning to get familiar with language. A parent or teacher can point to different objects, colours and shapes in a picture, and repeat their names, or ask the toddler to identify them. The book can also be used as a fun vocabulary building...
Penelope Pencil
A Story of Writing Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Writing development begins in infancy and continues through childhood. Handwriting and imagination is key to helping us store information, communicate to others, and plays a big part in educational development. Writing and using your imagination enhances a greater love for reading and expands...
Write an eBook in 30 Days or Less
Step by Step Tips to Focus, Motivate, and be Creative
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Are you looking to write a book effortlessly and in little time at all?
Learn the strategies and tips that professional best selling authors use to write literary masterpieces!
Inside you will learn:
- Write a Book Fast in One Month or Less!
- Starting.
- Setting the Scene.
-...