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Writing Prompts for Powerful Plots
A 12 Step No-Fail Writing Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
This is the book that changes the way you use writing prompts forever.
Writing Prompts for Powerful Plots guides you through a simple, yet innovative way to use writing prompts to craft powerful fiction.
In one comprehensive book, this writing strategy covers:
- How to understand your...
by Stefan Petrucha
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Observations and strategies based on the two decade long writing career of Stefan Petrucha, author of over twenty novels and hundreds of graphic novels.
This eBook collects the essays used for his successful online class of the same name, taught via the University of Massachusetts.
Topics...
Writing Dialogue 1-5
A Collection of Articles for Fiction Writers by Writing Show Host Paula Berinstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2012
Explore five of Writing Show host Paula B's most popular articles.
Collection includes:
Writing Dialogue 1: The Importance of Character Agenda
Writing Dialogue 2: Combining Dialogue and Narrative
Writing Dialogue 3: Compression
Writing Dialogue 4: How to Use Tags
Writing Dialogue 5: Individualizing Your Characters
Writing Routes
A Resource Handbook of Therapeutic Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
The use of creative writing as a route to personal or professional development is a powerful therapeutic tool, yet often the most difficult part is knowing how and where to begin. The experiences of others, and the strategies and approaches they have used in their own writing, can provide tried-and-tested...
by William Bernhardt
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
“Writing is structure,” William Goldman said, but too often aspiring writers plunge into their work without grasping this fundamental principle. Story structure is one of the most important concepts for a writer to understand—and ironically, one of the least frequently taught. In this book,...
Writing New Media
Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
As new media mature, the changes they bring to writing in college are many and suggest implications not only for the tools of writing, but also for the contexts, personae, and conventions of writing. An especially visible change has been the increase of visual elements-from typographic flexibility...
Demythologizing Language Difference in the Academy
Establishing Discipline-Based Writing Programs
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2004
In this volume, Mark Waldo argues that writing across the curriculum (WAC) programs should be housed in writing centers and explains an innovative approach to enhancing their effectiveness: focus WAC on the writing agendas of the disciplines. He asserts that WAC operation should reflect an academy...
by Laura K Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Congratulations on beginning your journey as a writer. It’s fun, and exciting as well as a lot of work. But it’s worth it. I hope you enjoy the three books contained in this combo pack. You’ve Decided to be a Writer, Now What?, The Big Book of Exercises, Prompts and Block Busters, and Mega-Volt...
Writing against the Curriculum
Anti-Disciplinarity in the Writing and Cultural Studies Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Writing against the Curriculum responds to the growing popularity of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID) programs in universities and colleges across the United States. Many of these schools employ both an "Introduction to Writing" course and a subsequent...
Writing Children's Fiction
A Writers' and Artists' Companion
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Full of both inspirational and practical advice, Writing Children's Fiction: A Writers' and Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing for some of the most difficult and demanding readers of all: children and young people.
Part 1 explores the nature, history and challenges of children's...
Everyone Can Write
Essays toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2000
With Writing without Teachers (OUP 1975) and Writing with Power (OUP 1995) Peter Elbow revolutionized the teaching of writing. His process method--and its now commonplace "free writing" techniques--liberated generations of students and teachers from the emphasis on formal principles of grammar that...
by Angela Booth
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Do you find writing a struggle?I work with writing students every day who believe that they “can’t write.” And yet, they must write, for one reason or another.My students include:* Business people who need to write for their job: their livelihood depends on writing frequently,...
Style and Story
Literary Methods for Writing Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
There are two basic rules for writing nonfiction, says historian and award-winning author Stephen J. Pyne. Rule 1: You can’t make stuff up. Rule 2: You can’t leave out known stuff that affects our understanding. Follow these rules, and you are writing nonfiction. Writing for different audiences...
The Healthy Writer
Reduce your pain, improve your health, and build a writing career for the long-term
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Do you suffer from physical pain relating to your writing life?
Are you struggling with back pain, weight gain related to sedentary working, anxiety, depression, sleep problems, neck pain, eye strain, stress, loneliness, digestive issues, or Repetitive Strain Injury?
These are the most...