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LEARN HOW TO WRITE AND PERFORM STAND UP COMEDY.A new edition of Be A Great Stand-Up, now fully revised and updated with new material on setting up and running a comedy night and mining almost any subject for jokes.Logan Murray has successfully taught the...

Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing is a lively and comprehensive study of versification by one of our best contemporary practitioners of traditional...

In this absorbing volume, David Lodge turns his incisive critical skills onto his own profession, salutes the great writers who have influenced his work, wonders about the motives of biographers, ponders the merits of creative writing courses, pulls the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945043116Author Geoff SymonFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Evil MasterMind, LLCPublisher Evil MasterMind, LLCWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Readers and writers of all levels will find the Oxford A-Z of English Usage essential. Based on Oxford's world-leading dictionary research programmes and contemporary language monitoring, and giving examples of real usage, this book provides the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060565541Author Joyce Carol OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

The book outlines a program for writing filmable novels. "The Film Novelist" is the first primer on writing film novels - whether you are a beginning novelist, a seasoned writer wanting to cross over into script/novel writing, or a creative writing...

Brilliant Activities for Creative Writing Year 5 provides a flexible, but structured resource for developing writing skills, which both you and your pupils will enjoy. The activities address many of upper Key Stage 2 Programmes of Study for writing...

Ramp up your role-playing game (RPG) and make your character your own with this fun, interactive workbook-an essential addition to any player's gaming kit.You've chosen your class, bought your weapons, and rolled for your stats, and you're now the proud...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955831522Author Sally JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Guinea Pig EducationPublisher Guinea Pig EducationDimensions(mm) 299mm * 210mm * 21mm

Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: GCSE English LanguageFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: November 2023 and June 2024 Help your students succeed in AQA GCSE (9-1) English Language, with resources to develop and practise the skills they...

Are you beginning a creative writing course? Or thinking about taking one?Doing Creative Writing is the ideal guide to what you should expect, what will be expected of you and how you can get the most from your course.It clearly and concisely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802361483Author Stuart GibbonFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Straightforward PublishingPublisher Straightforward Publishing

Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing in a wide range of genres, from travel writing to feminist polemic and writing on nature, history, death, friendship and sexuality. Part 1 explores the full range...

Brilliant Activities for Creative Writing Year 1 provides a flexible, but structured resource for developing writing skills, which both you and your pupils will enjoy. The activities address the Year 1 Programmes of Study for writing composition in the...

Poetry and short stories can act as powerful springboards to growth, self-enhancement and healing. With the guidance of a facilitator, participants can engage with their own creative expression, and with that of others, and in doing so find opportunities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060935498Author Peter ShafferFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 127g

What motivates poets in the 21st century? How do they find their voice? What themes and subject matters inspire them? How do they cope with set-backs and deal with success? What keeps them writing? Why I Write Poetry, edited by Ian Humphreys, combines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995749573Author Helena HalmeFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Newhurst PressPublisher Newhurst Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Books for a Better Life (Motivational) 2013 and Books for a Better Life (Motivational) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781592408153Author Beth KephartFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937031183Author Randy IngermansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Ingermanson Communications, Inc.Publisher Ingermanson Communications, Inc...

For more than twenty years, John Van Maanen's "Tales of the Field" has been a definitive reference and guide for students, scholars, and practitioners of ethnography and beyond. Originally published in 1988, it was the one of the first works to detail...

Have you ever found yourself re-reading the same sentence four or five times and thought 'I should get more sleep'? Are you clueless as to why one paragraph just seems to 'flow' while you simply can't recall the contents of another? Guess what: you are...

This bestselling guide to all areas of publishing and the media is completely revised and updated every year. The Yearbook is packed with advice, inspiration and practical guidance on who to contact and how to get published. Foreword to the 2018...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692355008Author Carly BergFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Magic Lantern PressPublisher Magic Lantern PressWeight(grams) 127g

A rare work of nonfiction from Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction contains brilliant advice on writing from the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize -- for her first novel The Age of Innocence. In The Writing of Fiction, Wharton provides general...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781387954728Author Ashan R. HamptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

When Kate L. Turabian first put her famous guidelines to paper, she could hardly have imagined the world in which today's students would be conducting research. Yet while the ways in which we research and compose papers may have changed, the fundamentals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957527911Author Claire WingfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Off The Press BooksPublisher Off The Press Books

Screenplay: Building Story Through Character is designed to help screenwriters turn simple or intricate ideas into exciting, multidimensional film narratives with fully-realized characters. Based on Jule Selbo's unique 11-step structure for building...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692438879Author Brandilyn CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Challow PressPublisher Challow PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? The Internet and the digital environment present writers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393320213Author Madison Smartt BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co

'Written in an authoritative and accessible style, this is a must-read for anyone planning, researching and writing a doctoral thesis or dissertation. I will certainly be recommending this book to my research students.' - Professor Goeffrey Elliott,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913564001Author Dan ParsonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Amwriting LtdPublisher Amwriting Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9781400033560Author Robert BoyntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916465268Author Sarah R PainterFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Siskin Press LimitedPublisher Siskin Press Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646114696Author Marya LaythFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 145mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891386862Author Alison CadburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Plain View PressPublisher Plain View PressWeight(grams) 608gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946995346Author Randy EllefsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Evermore Press, LLCPublisher Evermore Press, LLCWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm)...