Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
My Odyssey
Stories, Poems, and Verse
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
My Odyssey: Stories, Poems, and Verse began simply with a high school classroom assignment to write a short story. Author Joseph Kennedy had no idea what to write; he was prepared to fail instantly. Ultimately, however, he succeededso much so that his short story was published in his high schools...
WHAT'S YOUR PLAN
A Pathway to Writing and Publishing Your Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
What's Your Plan A Pathway to Writing and Publishing Your Work You know you have a book in you, stop telling yourself writing your story is impossible! What's Your Plan? A Pathway to Writing and Publishing Your Work, is crafted to walk you on a path through practical suggestions to cultivate your...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Well established as a definitive text--and now revised and updated with eight new chapters--this book translates cutting-edge research into effective guidelines for teaching writing in grades K–12. Illustrated with vivid classroom examples, the book identifies the components of a complete, high-quality...
Writing Right to Success
Stories of the writing life by those who followed their dream!
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Anybody can write. Right? But how do you write "right"? That is, how do you write in a way that leads to success as a writer? In Writing Right to Success, best-selling and award-winning authors share their journeys from taking the first step to achieving success. They also offer valuable...
Genre
An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
GENRE: AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY, THEORY, RESEARCH, AND PEDAGOGY provides a critical overview of the rich body of scholarship that has informed a “genre turn” in Rhetoric and Composition, including a range of interdisciplinary perspectives from rhetorical theory, applied linguistics, sociology, philosophy, cognitive psychology, and literary theory.
The Ritual of Writing
Writing as Spiritual Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
Using writing to deepen your connection with the Universe. The Ritual of Writing explores the connection between writing and ritual in Pagan spirituality. Focusing upon practical tasks, it begins by helping readers create a piece of writing connected to the Wheel of the Year and honouring a seasonal...
Radical Writing Center Praxis
A Paradigm for Ethical Political Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
In Radical Writing Center Praxis Laura Greenfield calls for a paradigm change in writing centers, imagining a field whose very reason for being is to facilitate justice and peace. The book calls on readers to more critically examine power and agency in writing centers and to imagine new possibilities...
The Fiction Writer's Guide to Dialogue
A Fresh Look at an Essential Ingredient of the Craft
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Dialogue is often overlooked as a necessary and potent instrument in the novelist’s repertoire. A novel can rise or fall on the strength of its dialogue. Superb dialogue can make a superb novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, Action is character.” George V. Higgins said, Dialogue is character.”...
Rittenhouse Writers
Reflections on a Fiction Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
James Rahn has led the Rittenhouse Writers' Group since he founded it in 1988, making it one of America's longest-running independent fiction workshops. Hundreds of writers and would-be writers have sought out the group for its remarkable level of instruction and collaboration. Rittenhouse Writers is...
Trough of Hell
How to Wrap Up the Middle of Your Story with Maximum Impact
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Conquer Act Two. Complete Your Story in Less Time--and with Less Frustration
If you’re like me, you know how your screenplay or novel* is going to start and end. Maybe not the exact image or line, but you’ve got a rough idea of what you’re going to write. So you begin writing your story...
Write Your Novel From The Middle
A New Approach For Plotters, Pantsers and Everyone in Between
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
A powerful secret and a fresh approach to writing bestselling fiction!
What's the best way to write a "next level" novel? Some writers start at the beginning and let the story unfold without a plan. They are called "pantsers," because they write by the "seat of the...
by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Most of what you think you know about writing is useless. It’s the harmful debris of your education—a mixture of half-truths, myths, and false assumptions that prevents you from writing well. Drawing on years of experience as a writer and teacher of writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg offers an approach...
The Right to Write
An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 1999
What if everything we have been taught about learning to write was wrong? In The Right to Write, Julia Cameron's most revolutionary book, the author of the bestselling self-help guide The Artist's Way, asserts that conventional writing wisdom would have you believe in a false doctrine that stifles...
by Ben Bova
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Ben Bova, best-selling author and six-time Hugo Award winner for Best Editor explains step by step all the elements you need to write profesionally selling science fiction. Bova was editor of both Analog and Omni magazine, two of the best-ever markets for short fiction, as well as a best-selling novelist...