Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
Writing Short Stories
A Routledge Writer's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
This new edition of Writing Short Stories has been updated throughout to include new and revised exercises, up-to-date coverage of emerging technologies and a new glossary of key terms and techniques. Ailsa Cox, a published short-story writer, guides the reader through the key aspects of the craft,...
The Everything Guide To Magazine Writing
From Writing Irresistible Queries to Landing Your First Assignment-all You Need to Build a Successful Career
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
The Art of Nonfiction
A Guide for Writers and Readers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
A remarkable series of lectures on the art of creating effective nonfiction by one of the 20th century's most profound writers and thinkers--now available for the first time in print.
Culled from sixteen informal lectures Ayn Rand delivered to a select audience in the late 1960s, this remarkable...
From Where You Dream
The Process of Writing Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author “shares his insights into—and passion for—the creation and experience of fiction with total openness” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Robert Olen Butler, author of Perfume River, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and A Small Hotel, teaches graduate...
by Bruce Ross-Larson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Whether you are composing a Web page on the Internet or agonizing over an annual budget report, these books are the key to clarity, accuracy, and economy in any writing task.
Offers more than 100 model sentence types in a catalog format, giving writers many interesting and provocative ways...
Can I Change Your Mind?
The Craft and Art of Persuasive Writing
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
These days, we all need the ability to argue a case effectively in
writing. Drawing on his long experience as a leading copywriter,
Lindsay Camp shows how it's done-whether the 'end product' is a glossy magazine ad, a new business proposal, a page for the company website, or just a hasty email to...
Spirituality and the Writer
A Personal Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Today, the surprisingly elastic form of the memoir embraces subjects that include dying, illness, loss, relationships, and self-awareness. Writing to reveal the inner self—the pilgrimage into one’s spiritual and/or religious nature—is a primary calling. Contemporary memoirists are exploring...
A Cup of Comfort for Writers
Inspirational Stories That Celebrate the Literary Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
As every writer knows, keeping the faith isn't always easy. On those days when you find yourself literally at a loss for words, you may long for a little writer's TLC. In A Cup of Comfort for Writers, you'll meet more than fifty writers who, just like you, have faced down that empty page and won!...
The Writing Journey
The story of my journey down "the road less travelled"
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The story of my journey down "the road less travelled"
“I don’t know how the story will end, but I know how it all began...
The Long and Winding Road
The Road Not Taken - A Poem by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And...
Writing While Female or Black or Gay
Diverse Voices in Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Go beyond The New Yorker profile of publishing’s biggest con artist and break through the mostly white, middle-to-upper-class gatekeepers.
Don’t let the Dan Mallory scandal kill your publishing dreams. Understand why even Toni Morrison kept quiet about being a writer when she worked as...
The Successful Novelist
A Lifetime of Lessons about Writing and Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
"Like listening to a beloved brother. I found the acute observations and his narrative philosophy more valuable for the new writer than the contents of any 100 other texts."-Dean Koontz
"The Successful Novelist is the vehicle you want if you plan to drive your way to successful...
The Extreme Novelist: The No-Time-to-Write Method for Drafting Your Novel
The Extreme Novelist Writes, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Are you ready to become an Extreme Novelist?
Can’t find the time, energy, or self-confidence to get your novel written? Have life’s distractions and demands stopped you from completing the book of your heart? You’re not alone. Every year, through no fault of their own, intelligent, dedicated...
by Angela Booth
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
Learn the secrets of top freelance writers;
Get the writing jobs you want;
Write less and earn more.
Writing too much? Worried about burnout?
The challenge for writers today is that we're competing in a global marketplace. So, when you rely on job websites like the freelance marketplaces...
by Robert Fry
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A Straightforward Guide to Writing Business and Personal Letters deals with the production of effective letters and e mails covering both business and personal situations. The book dwells from the outset on grammar and punctuation. It shows the writer how they can express what they are trying to say, how to lay it out and take care that the letter achieves its aims.