Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
by John Scalzi
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
There are books which claim to teach you how to write. This book is about the writing life: The business of writing. The day-to-day existence of a professional writer. The ways writers interact with other writers. The things writers do to help themselves out -- and the things they do to trip themselves...
Gay and Lesbian Literature Since World War II
History and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Gay and Lesbian Literature Since World War II chronicles the multifaceted explosion of gay and lesbian writing that has taken place in the second half of the twentieth century. Encompassing a wide range of subject matter and a balance of gay and lesbian concerns, it includes work by established scholars...
Master Fiction Writing: Craft A Novel in 31 Days
Selling Writer Strategies, #4
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
You want to write a novel. Perhaps you can't get started. Or maybe you got started, and then you stopped.You need a plan, broken down into easy steps. Now finally, here's a program which gets you off the starting blocks, and gets you into the novelist's game. It helps you to write a novel...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In recent decades, genre studies has focused attention on how genres mediate social activities within workplace and academic settings. Genre and the Performance of Publics moves beyond institutional settings to explore public contexts that are less hierarchical, broadening the theory of how genres...
A Field Guide for Immersion Writing
Memoir, Journalism, and Travel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
For centuries writers have used participatory experience as a lens through which to better see the world at large and as a means of exploring the self. Considering various types of participatory writing as different strains of one style—immersion writing—Robin Hemley offers new perspectives and...
The Everything Improve Your Writing Book
Master the written word and communicate clearly
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Do you struggle with research papers for school? Is business writing one of your weak areas? Are you at a loss for what to include in thank-you notes? The Everything Improve Your Writing Book, 2nd Edition can help! With a few simple rules and a little guidance, you, too, can write clearly and concisely.
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Get Writing Children's Fiction
Ideas, Tips and Exercises for Writers of Children's Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The aim of this book is to get you writing. It's full of inspiration, tips and writing exercises for anyone who wants to write children's fiction. Included are tips from other published writers, useful links and answers to questions you've always wanted to ask.
Includes chapters on:
Know-how:...
We Need to Talk
A New Method for Evaluating Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
We evaluate poems constantly: as workshop leaders, competition judges and journal editors. But how do we judge the success of verse in these contexts? The authors propose an innovative method by which anyone involved in the assessment of poetry can be more transparent about how they value verse....
Early Southern Sports and Sportsmen, 1830-1910
A Literary Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Jacob F. Rivers III has collected twenty-two classic hunting tales by twelve southern writers including Davey Crocket, Johnson J. Hooper, and Henry Clay Lewis. These stories spring not only from a genteel literary tradition but also from the tradition of the tall tale or stories of backwoods humor....
by Chloe Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
‘Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book… give it all.’
Annie Dillard
WRITE MORE – WRITE BETTER – WRITE NOW!
This colourful little book of uplifting quotes and tailored tips delivers motivational sparks and creative signposts for writers. Read it,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
The Internationalization of US Writing Programs illuminates the role writing programs and WPAs play in defining goals, curriculum, placement, assessment, faculty development, and instruction for international student populations. The volume offers multiple theoretical approaches to the work of writing...
Welcome to the Writer's Life
How to Design Your Writing Craft, Writing Business, Writing Practice, and Reading Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Always wanted to be a writer? Stop wasting time and start your writing life today!
With warmth and humor, the author welcomes you into the writer’s life as someone who has been there on the other side looking in. Like a freshman orientation for writers, this book includes an in-depth exploration...
Choice and Agency in the Writing Workshop
Developing Engaged Writers, Grades 46
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Step into a classroom and “listen in” on the writing initiatives and motivations of students who are given significant choice and agency in the development of their writing. Discover why upper elementary children need ways to become literate as kids, not merely as prototypes of adults...
The Ultimate Journal Writing Book for Kids & Adults
learn Ideas, tips, techniques & exercises including journaling's therapeutic powers through daily personal self dialogue, prompts/questions etc...
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
"When You Feel Rotten, Confused and Need to Unload? Try Journaling!"
Are you going through a rough patch? Do you need more clarity in your life? Journaling is essentially externalizing
your thoughts and feelings to paper. It lets you know more about yourself, experiences and...