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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
“Food writing is stepping out,” legendary food writer Ruth Reichl declares at the start of this, the inaugural edition of Best American Food Writing. “It’s about time…Food is, in a very real sense, redesigning the world.” Indeed, the twenty-eight pieces in this volume touch on every pillar...
Teaching Writing Genres Across the Curriculum
Strategies for Middle School Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
This volume showcases the efforts of real teachers using the teaching events from real middle school classrooms. Included is the work of eight hardworking middle school teachers who are convinced that the form and function of genre is a way to teach writing across the middle school curriculum. Each chapter...
The Irresistible Novel
How to Craft an Extraordinary Story That Engages Readers from Start to Finish
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Discover Your Voice and Enthrall Readers!
The craft of writing is filled with various debates: Should I include a prologue? Should I delete all adverbs from my manuscript? Just how much backstory--if any--can I include in my story? These questions--and their often-contradictory answers--can...
by Arnold Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2015
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘The Author's Craft’.
Written in 1914, this is a short exposition by Bennett on writing. He doesn't get into technique other than to expound on the need for "design" or "construction" to follow inspiration....
In a Flash!
Writing & Publishing Dynamic Flash Prose
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Welcome to a genre that has zoomed into public notice with the Internet age and yet has a rich history. Flashes in both fiction and nonfiction are highly sought after by editors and publishers across a wide array of publications. This practical guide covers a diverse range of topics from the first...
Writer at Work
Reflections on the Art and Business of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2005
Writer at Work is the book about writing that somebody had to write. It's a report from the front lines by a working writer with a lifetime of experience in everything from literary fiction to radio and newspaper reporting. Writer at Work is full of provocative opinions and unexpected diversions....
by Karen Freeman-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Demonstrates how-to use the free automated writing prompts from Plagerize.Me to brainstorm your next story using a randomly generated set of writing prompts.
The Reader Over Your Shoulder
A Handbook for Writers of English Prose
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
“The best book on writing ever published” (Patricia T. O’Conner, author of Woe Is I).
When Robert Graves and Alan Hodge decided to collaborate on this manual for writers, the world was in total upheaval. Graves had fled Majorca three years earlier at the start of the Spanish Civil War,...
Generation Vet
Composition, Student Veterans, and the Post-9/11 University
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Institutions of higher education are experiencing the largest influx of enrolled veterans since World War II, and these student veterans are transforming post-secondary classroom dynamics. While many campus divisions like admissions and student services are actively moving to accommodate the rise...
Writing Fiction
Creative and Critical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2007
Exploring writing as a practice, Boulter draws from the work of writers and theorists to show how cultural and literary debates can help writers enhance their own fiction. Negotiating the creative-critical crossover, this is an approachable book that helps students develop practical writing skills and a critical awareness of creative possibilities.
by Jane Wenham-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Jane Wenham-Jones - agony aunt for Writing Magazine - gives advice on literary queries, writing worries and the obstacles faced by anyone hoping to be published.
In this volume, the questions answered are:
11: A Room of One’s Own
12: Two Books a Year
13: Finding Time
14: Research
15: Someone...
Writing Short Stories
A Writers' and Artists' Companion
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Writing Short Stories: A Writers' and Artists' Companionis an essential guide to writing short fiction successfully.
PART 1 explores the nature and history of the form, personal reflections by the editors, and help getting started with ideas, planning and research.
PART 2 includes tips...
Field Notes for Writers
Tips for Independent Authors
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2017
Field notes from the experience of self-publishing 25 books
Are you thinking about writing a book but you’re not sure how to go about it? Not sure if you have the time?
Maybe you’ve written one. Now you want to know what to do next.
These field notes from the author of 25...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
“What any body is—and is able to do—cannot be disentangled from the media we use to consume and produce texts.” ---from the Introduction.
Kristin Arola and Anne Wysocki argue that composing in new media is composing the body—is embodiment. In Composing (Media) = Composing (Embodiment),...