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ix, 340 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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A collection of over a hundred writing tips gleaned from fifty popular writing books. Chapters are devoted to each key strategy. Author expands and contextualizes original authors' suggestions and shares how each tip helped other authors improve their skills.
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xix, 257 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Why write when it sometimes feels that so few people really read--read as if their lives might be changed by what they're reading? Why write, when the world wants to be informed, not enlightened; to be entertained, not inspired? Writing is backbreaking, mindbreaking, lonely work. So why? Because writing, as celebrated professor Mark Edmundson explains, is one of the greatest human goods. Real writing can do what critic R. P. Blackmur said it could:...
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259 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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A companion to "A Field Guide for Getting Lost" explores the ways that people construct lives from stories and connect to each other through empathy, narrative, and imagination, sharing anecdotes about historical figures and members of the author's own family.
48) The art of X-ray reading: how the secrets of 25 great works of literature will improve your writing
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viii, 326 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see how meaning is actually being made. In THE ART OF X-RAY READING, Clark invites you to don your X-ray reading glasses and join him on a guided tour through some of the most exquisite and masterful literary works of all time, from the Great Gatsby to Lolita to The Bluest...
49) The revised and expanded punctuation for writers: a thorough primer for writers of fiction & essays
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73 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"'Punctuation for writers' will teach you: how to wield punctuation as a tool and use it to achieve a particular effect in the reader; a set of usage guidelines that fit most writing scenarios; the different uses of punctuation in prose, dialogue, and poetry; [and] how and why all readers must react in a given way to each punctuation mark, and what that means to you as a writer." -- p. 11.
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xxiii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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Provides an introduction to creative writing, and includes information on crafting meaningful plot, strategies for starting a writer's group, advice on applying for grants, guidance on writing a screenplay, and includes literary examples to help find a niche, and quizzes to challenge creative thinking.
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xii, 153 pages ; 17 cm
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English
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Joyce Meyer draws from personal experience and Scripture to illustrate how prayer and positive words can be used to overcome every challenge that stands in the way of fulfillment. Joyce teaches listeners how to stop talking idly about their problems and use God's Power Words to defeat them.
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Charles Eliot Norton lectures volume 1993
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153 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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