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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2000
This revised and updated edition of The Creative Writing Handbook now includes new chapters on writing for stage and radio and on writing screenplays for film and television. Written by professional writers and tutors, it covers all aspects of the writing process, from drafting first thoughts to shaping...
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...
Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition
A Guide to Narrative Craft
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
More than 250,000 copies sold!
A creative writer’s shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Writing Fiction. Janet Burroway’s best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for more than three decades it has helped...
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...
by Fiona Sampson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004
This book is really a must-have for therapists and others in the creative arts, so that you can see how the workings of the human mind can be displayed through the arts. Even with serious illness, the mind can talk. And that is the point of the book'.
- Metapsychology Online Book Reviews
'The...
A New Writing Classroom
Listening, Motivation, and Habits of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
In A New Writing Classroom, Patrick Sullivan provides a new generation of teachers a means and a rationale to reconceive their approach to teaching writing, calling into question the discipline's dependence on argument.
Including secondary writing teachers within his purview, Sullivan advocates...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2005
Second Language Writing Systems looks at how people learn and use a second language writing system, arguing that they are affected by characteristics of the first and second writing systems, to a certain extent independently of the languages involved. This book presents for the first time the effects...
Writing in a Nutshell
Writing Workshops to Improve Your Craft
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Revised 2019 Edition
In Writing in a Nutshell: Writing Workshops to Improve Your Craft, writer, editor, and publisher, Jessica Bell, guides writers through a variety of “before” and “after” writing examples demonstrating the transition from weak to strong writing, and encourages them...
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...
Writing Is Not Work
On Finding Your Voice With Creative Writing
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Every November, writers around the globe participate in National Novel Writing Month, the yearly challenge to complete a 50,000 word novel in 30 days.
The experience and thrill of fast paced novel writing is both amazing fun and daunting at the same time. But in the exhilarating mad dash to...
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...
Teaching Writing as Journey, Not Destination
Essays Exploring What “Teaching Writing” Means
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
American author Kurt Vonnegut has famously declared that writing is unteachable, yet formal education persists in that task. Teaching Writing as Journey, Not Destination is the culmination of P.L. Thomas’s experiences as both a writer and a teacher of writing reaching into the fourth decade of struggling...
The Craft of Professional Writing
A Guide for Amateur and Professional Writers
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
The Craft of Professional Writing is the most complete book ever written about the real-life work of being a writer. Covering topics ranging from business writing (advertising, PR) to commercial work (news reporting, feature writing, blogging, non-fiction books) to creative writing (screenplays and...
Keys to Great Writing Revised and Expanded
Mastering the Elements of Composition and Revision
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Transform your writing!
If you're ready to empower your writing but are unsure of where to start, let Keys to Great Writing Revised and Expanded show you the way. Award-winning author and veteran writing coach Stephen Wilbers provides invaluable instruction on every aspect of the craft, from...