Composition Creative Writing category: 2214 books
Unleash the Writer Within
The Essential Writers’ Companion
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Beloved author Cecil (Cec) Murphey says, “The best kind of writing occurs when it comes from the heart. It’s called being authentic or transparent. Too many writers have an insatiable need to be accepted, liked, or admired, and those needs become more important than being true to their convictions....
Your Name in Print
A Teen's Guide to Publishing for Fun, Profit and Academic Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Make Your Mark
Looking for a way to express yourself? Need some extra spending money? Do you want to beef up that college application package? Look no further than this book.
With advice on how to write newspaper and magazine features, Web blogs, music and movie reviews, novels, graphic...
Tourists and Travellers
Women's Non-fictional Writing about Scotland, 1770-1830
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, travel and tourism in Scotland changed radically, from a time when there were very few travellers and no provision for those that there were, through to Scotland’s emergence as a fully fledged tourist destination with the necessary physical and economic...
by Stewart Ferris
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2004
Everyone has a book in them, they say. Having gone through the process of extracting a masterpiece from your head what happens next? In most cases the book will end up in a desk drawer as a pile of papers or inside a computer. But that's not what you want, is it? You wrote it to get published. You...
by April Kihlstrom
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Most of us write linearly but brainstorm in a nonlinear way. If one thinks of writing a book as being similar to putting together a puzzle, this workbook is intended to help writers create key puzzle pieces. This workbook is intended to help writers brainstorm and plan out their books in...
by DiAnn Mills
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
When a writer steps onto the page of a novel, a dance of rhythm and beauty begins. The writer is inspired to create story, and that passion unfolds onto the pages of a vibrant novel. Do you have a burning passion to pen a novel but don't know where to begin? Have you been writing but your work still...
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction
Advice and Essential Exercises from Respected Writers, Editors, and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
FEATURING ESSAYS FROM: Barrie Jean Borich • Jenny Boully • Norma Elia Cantú • Rigoberto González • Philip Graham • Carol Guess • Jeff Gundy • Robin Hemley • Barbara Hurd • Judith Kitchen •Eric LeMay • Dinah Lenney • Bret Lott • Patrick Madden• Lee Martin • Maggie McKnight...
by Robert J. Ray, Bret Norris
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Who doesn't dream of writing a novel while holding on to a day job? Robert J. Ray and coauthor Bret Norris can help readers do just that, with this proven practical and accessible step-by-step guide to completing a novel in just a year's worth of weekends. The Weekend Novelist shows writers of all...
Writing Historical Fiction
A Writers' and Artists' Companion
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Writing Historical Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an invaluable companion for a writer working in this challenging and popular literary genre, whether your period is Ancient Rome or World War II.
PART 1 includes reflections on the genre and provides a short history of historical...
The Instinctive Screenplay
Watching and Writing Screen Drama
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
What is it that makes humans engage with a dramatic narrative? Is it linked to our primitive selves, contained within our instinctive experience?
This innovative text argues that understanding how and why our human instincts are brought into play as we watch screen drama is the key to writing...
How to Write a Novel
Advice and tips from a full-time novelist
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Do any of these sound familiar?
• You want to write your first novel, but you don't know how to begin.
• You've started writing several novels, but you never finish them.
• You've written a novel or two, but you want to increase your output and publish more often.
If you answered...
Making Sense in Geography and Environmental Sciences
A Student's Guide to Research and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Part of the bestselling Making Sense series, this sixth edition of Making Sense in Geography and the Environmental Sciences is an indispensable research and writing guide for students in any area of the discipline. Maintaining the signature straightforward style of the series, this fully updated edition...
by Alison Plus
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Please Note: This is a boxed set.
The first year of college can be challenging for many reasons. The classes are harder, the schedule is more demanding, and you will be expected to manage everything on your own, perhaps for the first time in your life.
And the papers! You have to write...
by Louise Tondeur
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
You can learn a lot about writing through direct observation from life, just like artists do when they work with still life, landscapes or models - and that's what this book is all about. It's made up of practical activities for you to work on as you go along, with minimum explanation. The book covers...