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Just Write

Author : Nigel Watts

Publisher : TEACH YOURSELF

Page : pages

File Size : 48,25 MB

Release : 2015-10-08

Category :

ISBN : 9781473621978

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This beautiful gift is for writers at any stage, whether you're just starting out or know exactly what you want to write. It's a full writing course, packed with information, support, advice, ideas and tools to help you focus your writing and share it with the world. It includes a 6-month subscription to Writing Magazine and a beautiful notebook in which to record your thoughts and ideas on the go, or as you listen to the accompanying MP3 CD.Full of inspiring, creativity-boosting suggestions, you'll not only learn how to write with confidence but also discover how the publishing industry works, who does what, and how decisions are made. Discover the tips, tricks and insider secrets that will help you fine-tune your creative writing - and launch your publishing career.Includes: Chris Sykes' Complete Creative Writing Course- the 368pp book Complete Creative Writing Course - the audio accompaniment to the Complete Creative Writing Course book.The Insider's Guide to Publishing - full of tips and insights (Features the key content from Teach Yourself's Get Your Book Published and Get Started in Self-Publishing)Deluxe notebook for when inspiration strikes6-month subscription to Writing MagazineABOUT THE SERIESTheTeach Yourself Creative Writing series helps aspiring authors tell their stories. Covering a range of genres from science fiction and romantic novels to illustrated children's books and comedy, this series is packed with advice, exercises, and tips for unlocking creativity and improving your writing. And because we know how daunting the blank page can be, we set up the Just Write online community, at tyjustwrite.com, for budding authors and successful writers to connect and share.



Million Dollar Outlines

Author : David Farland

Publisher : WordFire +ORM

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 25,56 MB

Release : 2013-01-31

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1614751757

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Discover the secrets to crafting a successful novel in this guide by a master writer & instructor and New York Times–bestselling author. Bestselling author David Farland taught dozens of writers who went on to staggering literary success, including such #1 New York Times Bestsellers as Brandon Mull (Fablehaven), Brandon Sanderson (Wheel of Time), James Dashner (The Maze Runner) and Stephenie Mayer (Twilight). In this book, Dave teaches how to analyze an audience and outline a novel to appeal to a wide readership. The secrets found in his unconventional approach will help you understand why so many of his authors went on to prominence. Hailed as “the wizard of storytelling,” Dave was an award-winning, international best-selling author with more than fifty novels in print, and a tireless mentor and instructor of new writers. His book Million Dollar Outlines is a seminal work teaching authors how to create a blueprint for a novel that can lead to bestseller success.



The Everything Creative Writing Book

Author : Wendy Burt-thomas

Publisher : Everything

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 32,48 MB

Release : 2010-06-18

Category : Reference

ISBN : 1440501521

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Many people can write. But writing well enough to get published takes hours of practice, the ability to take criticism, and expert advice. Filled with stories and tips from published authors, this easy-to-use guide teaches you the basics of the writing craft. Whether you want to create poems or plays, children's books or online blogs, romance novels or a memoir, you'll learn to write more effectively and creatively. Published author, editor, and PR consultant Wendy Burt-Thomas covers all aspects of writing, including how to: Prepare to write, from planning to research to organization Properly structure your piece to fit your chosen genre Stay focused during the drafting and editing processes Work with other authors Overcome writer's block Market your writing



Story Genius

Author : Lisa Cron

Publisher : Ten Speed Press

Page : 290 pages

File Size : 43,89 MB

Release : 2016-08-09

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1607748908

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Following on the heels of Lisa Cron's breakout first book, Wired for Story, this writing guide reveals how to use cognitive storytelling strategies to build a scene-by-scene blueprint for a riveting story. It’s every novelist’s greatest fear: pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into writing hundreds of pages only to realize that their story has no sense of urgency, no internal logic, and so is a page one rewrite. The prevailing wisdom in the writing community is that there are just two ways around this problem: pantsing (winging it) and plotting (focusing on the external plot). Story coach Lisa Cron has spent her career discovering why these methods don’t work and coming up with a powerful alternative, based on the science behind what our brains are wired to crave in every story we read (and it’s not what you think). In Story Genius Cron takes you, step-by-step, through the creation of a novel from the first glimmer of an idea, to a complete multilayered blueprint—including fully realized scenes—that evolves into a first draft with the authority, richness, and command of a riveting sixth or seventh draft.



Spunk & Bite

Author : Arthur Plotnik

Publisher : Random House Reference Publishing

Page : 280 pages

File Size : 44,57 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN :

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Book Description

Presents a comprehensive guide to creating winning manuscripts that will sell, and provide tips and techniques on language, dialogue, diction and more.



Techniques of the Selling Writer

Author : Dwight V. Swain

Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press

Page : 346 pages

File Size : 22,24 MB

Release : 2012-09-06

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0806186674

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Techniques of the Selling Writer provides solid instruction for people who want to write and sell fiction, not just to talk and study about it. It gives the background, insights, and specific procedures needed by all beginning writers. Here one can learn how to group words into copy that moves, movement into scenes, and scenes into stories; how to develop characters, how to revise and polish, and finally, how to sell the product. No one can teach talent, but the practical skills of the professional writer's craft can certainly be taught. The correct and imaginative use of these kills can shorten any beginner's apprenticeship by years. This is the book for writers who want to turn rejection slips into cashable checks.



Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition

Author : Renni Browne

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 290 pages

File Size : 13,95 MB

Release : 2010-06-15

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0062012908

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Hundreds of books have been written on the art of writing. Here at last is a book by two professional editors to teach writers the techniques of the editing trade that turn promising manuscripts into published novels and short stories. In this completely revised and updated second edition, Renni Browne and Dave King teach you, the writer, how to apply the editing techniques they have developed to your own work. Chapters on dialogue, exposition, point of view, interior monologue, and other techniques take you through the same processes an expert editor would go through to perfect your manuscript. Each point is illustrated with examples, many drawn from the hundreds of books Browne and King have edited.



The Storytelling Animal

Author : Jonathan Gottschall

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Page : 271 pages

File Size : 14,34 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0547391404

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Book Description

A provocative scholar delivers the first book on the new science of storytelling: the latest thinking on why we tell stories and what stories reveal about human nature.



Into the Woods

Author : John Yorke

Publisher : Penguin Group

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 48,72 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9780141978109

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'Into The Woods' is a revelation of the fundamental structure and meaning of all stories from the man responsible for more hours of drama on British television than anyone else, John Yorke. We all love stories. Many of us love to tell them, and even dream of making a living from them. But what is a story? Hundreds of books about screenwriting and storytelling have been written, but none of them ask 'Why?' Why do we tell stories? And why do all stories function in an eerily similar way?



Art-write

Author : Vicki Krohn Amorose

Publisher : Vicki Krohn Amorose

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 49,2 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Art

ISBN : 9781937303129

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Book Description

Practical information for artists trying to sell their work. Formatted in a workbook style with fill exercises and examples.