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400 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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Unlock your creative potential and write something special Ever dream of writing a book, article, poem, or play that means something to you -- and maybe to someone else as well? Do you have an idea you're ready to get down on paper? In Creative Writing For Dummies, you'll learn how to unleash your creative side and become a confident and productive writer. Discover the essential elements of storytelling, including structure, characterization, setting,...
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217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"A deeply personal how-to book for aspiring writers, encouraging them to look inward and excavate their own memories in order to discover the authentic voices and compelling details that are waiting to be put on the page"--
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Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena's a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn't even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena's death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena's just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions...
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"I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. But, the Ghan is not the respite I'd been hoping for. It turns out I've trapped myself on an 1,800-mile journey with a powder...
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viii, 305 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Combing anecdotes and hard-won lessons from decades of teaching and writing -- and invoking everyone from Hemingway to your third-grade teacher -- retired professor Thomas C. Foster guides you through the basics of writing. With How to Write Like a Writer you'll learn how to organize your thoughts, construct first drafts, and (not incidentally) keep you in your chair so that inspiration can come to visit" --
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xv, 301 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"In Tell It Like It Is, bestselling author, writing coach, and teacher Roy Peter Clark offers a succinct and practical guide to writing with clarity, honesty, and conviction. By analyzing stellar writing samples from a diverse collection of public writers, Clark highlights and explains the tools journalists, scientists, economists, fact-checkers, even storytellers use to engage, inform, and hook readers, and how best to deploy them in a variety of...
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185 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"International journalism needs a new paradigm, and this is the moment to forge one. In the wake of the pandemic and ongoing racial and environmental justice movements, news consumers are demanding better stories. International coverage prioritizes disasters and victim-centered narratives, ignores huge chunks of the world, and relies on outdated stereotypes. This kind of news reinforces the distrust people feel for the news. The solution, as Cristi...
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x, 341 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"How We Do It is an anthology curated by Black writers for the creation and proliferation of Black thought. While a creator's ethnicity does not solely define them, it is inherently part of who they are and how they interpret the world. For centuries, Black creators have utilized oral and written storytelling traditions in crafting their art. But how does one begin the process of constructing a poem or story or character? How do Black writers, when...
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"The life of a book isn't easy, especially when people judge you by your cover (not every book can be adorned with sparkly unicorns!). And this narrator should know -- it's the book itself, and it has a lot of opinions. It gets irritated when readers bend its pages back, and it finds authors quite annoying. But it does have a story to tell. Through witty direct address and charming illustrations, readers meet a book that has never been read, with...
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When seventeen-year-old Julieta starts writing a rom-com mystery and posting it online, she unexpectedly receives comments from a mysterious user, so with three suspects in mind, Julieta sets out to find her secret admirer.
Julieta isn't looking for her Romeo--but she is writing about love. When her summer writing teacher encourages the class to publish their work online, the last thing she's expecting is to get a notification that her rom-com has...
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238 pages ; 24 cm
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Español
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Herramientas creativas para el arte de escribir por la autora del bestseller El camino del artista. Un programa de seis semanas para sumergirte en el arte de escribir y sacar tu lado más creativo de la mano de la autora de El camino del artista. Una carta de amor a la escritura a través de la cual Julia Cameron comparte herramientas que cualquier persona puede utilizar y orienta cuidadosamente al lector para que recorra paso a paso el camino de...
13) Unstuck
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272 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Twelve-year-old Lyla sets out to write the perfect fantasy novel in her creative writing class, but discovers some unexpected twists and turns, both on and off the page. Includes twenty-five ways to overcome writer's block.
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358 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"In this incisive series of intellectual portraits, Adam Shatz, one of the Anglophone world's foremost essayists, charts the role of the committed intellectual. Through the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, he shows how writers bind themselves to the project embodied in their work In a moving portrait of Edward Said, Shatz uncovers the profound role the cause of Palestinian liberation had on his life and writing. And via thinkers as diverse as Fouad Ajami,...
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46 pages ; 16 cm
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In 1957, Nobel Prize-winning philosopher Albert Camus gave a speech entitled "Create Dangerously," effectively a call to arms for artists, in particular those who came from an immigrant background, like he did. Camus understood the necessity of those making art as a part of civil society. A bold cry for artistic freedom and responsibility, his words today remain as timely as ever. In this new translation, Camus's message, available as a stand-alone...
16) Starling house
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Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote "The Underland" -- and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it's best to let the uncanny house and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling go to rot ... Opal is a lot of things -- orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic and part-time cashier...
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Updated for 2016!
New additions include:
Calculating how much and when you'll be paid by Amazon;
Figuring how much you'll be paid by Createspace;
Understanding the Amazon genre categories so you can rank;
Complete run-downs on promotions that worked for me.
That's more than 10,000 additional words in this updated 2nd edition!
You'll also get more than 45 Facebook author groups that are great for promoting your free eBook days. In addition there's...
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Saviez-vous que l'écriture d'un livre se classe parmi les trois premières choses sur les listes de choses à faire?
Peut-être que c'est aussi sur le vtre ou peut-être que vous avez toujours pensé à écrire un roman ou que vous avez une histoire qui doit être racontée.
Écrire un livre est plus difficile que vous ne le pensez... Être publié encore plus difficile, alors j'ai mis en place ce que j'appelle, Novel Writing Blueprint.
Il...
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English
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Robert Holt, himself the successful author of four self-published books, now shares his knowledge and savvy with other would-be author-publishers in this step-by-step guide to every aspect of self-publishing.
If you yearn join the ranks of such self-published authors as Henry Thoreau, Upton Sinclair, Anais Nin, and George Bernard Shaw, if you've ever thought of doing it yourself, then this is the book for you. How to Publish Promote and Sell Your...
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Tienes una historia que contar al mundo
Tienes una historia que contar y no sabes como llevarla al papel. Conseguir una historia que no aburra y bien estructurada. Pero nadie te ha enseñado cómo hacerlo... hasta ahora.
Me llamo Raimon Samsó, soy autor de 32 libros, y he conseguido 2 premios literarios y he vendido cientos de miles de ejemplares.
Este libro te revelará las claves de mi éxito literario. He resumido lo que aprendí leyendo, hablando...
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