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"Jenny is the future of nonfiction in America. What an absurdly arrogant statement to make. I make it anyway. Watch." -John D'Agata"Yes, Aristotle, there can be pleasure without 'complete and unified action with a beginning, middle, and end.' Jenny...

What is involved in the act of creative writing? How do renowned authors such as Robert Pinsky, Iain Banks and Philip Pullman write? Proving that there is no single way of writing creatively, Inside Creative Writing features original interviews with...

This book provides a practical and richly informative introduction to feature writing and the broader context in which features journalists operate. As well as covering the key elements and distinctive features that constitute good feature writing, the...

A fill-in book from the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, authors of the best-selling 642 Things series Focus on a single aspect of the craft of writing with help from the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. Writing Sci-Fi and Fantasy starts with a foreword...

In this engaging and accessible guide, Eugen Bacon explores writing speculative fiction as a creative practice, drawing from her own work, and the work of other writers and theorists, to interrogate its various subgenres. Through analysis of writers such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882514076Author Mary F HydeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Greenleaf PressPublisher Greenleaf PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501147227Author Charles JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

With Writing without Teachers (OUP 1975) and Writing with Power (OUP 1995) Peter Elbow revolutionized the teaching of writing. His process method-and its now commonplace "free writing" techniques-liberated generations of students and teachers...

The memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller list. Writing programs challenge authors to disclose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913372033Author Wendy JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Scott and LawsonPublisher Scott and LawsonWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932907322Author Catherine JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions

While the novella has existed as a distinct literary form for over four hundred years, Writing the Novella is the first craft book dedicated to creating this intermediate-length fiction. Innovative, integrated journal prompts inspire and sustain the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984825902Author Chelsea ShukovFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899235261Author Nicholas BarkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940096148Author Jordan McCollumFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Durham Crest BooksPublisher Durham Crest BooksWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Midwest Book Award (MIPA) (Reference) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780982579428Author John RemberFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Dream of Things...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679741268Author James A. MichenerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 397g

This remarkable little book, intended as a supplement for any course that requires writing, models a clear, step-by-step system for creating straight-forward, concise, intelligible and readable prose.This book, intended as a supplement for any course...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780517880968Author Burghild Nina HolzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170g

How do writers approach a new novel? Do they start with plot, character, or theme? A. S. Byatt starts with color. E. L. Doctorow begins with an image. In Off the Page, authors tell us how they work, giving insight into their writing process. Gathered...

This writer's guide explains how to write short stories and horror fiction for children and adults. The author shows how to build on the inital idea and develop characters and plot. There are ideas for selecting and approaching publishers and information...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400032600Author Margaret AtwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Though it is foundational to the craft of writing, the concept of voice is a mystery to many authors, and teachers of writing do not have a good working definition of it for use in the classroom. Written to address the vague and problematic advice given...

Learning to write starts with learning to do one big thing: pay attention to the world around you, even though just about everything in modern life makes this more difficult than it needs to be. Developing habits and practices of observing, and writing...

Exploring Options is designed to help student writers develop their knowledge and use of academic language to meet the demands of college- and university-level writing assignments. It draws on the research identifying lexical and grammatical patterns...

Updated with new terms, examples, and exercises, and to reflect the 2016 MLA guidelines, the Second Edition of Essential Literary Terms defines more than 225 must-know literary terms in clear and concise prose, and offers an abundance of examples and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250183927Author James WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 183mm * 117mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736062401Author Michelle CopherFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Layers of LearningPublisher Layers of LearningWeight(grams) 916gDimensions(mm) 279mm...

Will Dunne first brought the workshop experience down to the desk level with The Dramatic Writer's Companion, offering practical exercises to help playwrights and screenwriters work through the problems that arise in developing their scripts. Now writers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607326861Author Joseph HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams) 260g

Students of all levels need to know how to write a well-reasoned, coherent research paper-and for decades Kate L. Turabian's Student's Guide to Writing College Papers has helped them to develop this critical skill. For its fifth edition, Chicago has...

This second edition of Ian Roberts's highly successful textbook on diachronic syntax has been fully revised and updated throughout to take account of the multiple developments in the field in the last decade. The book provides a detailed account of how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981809359Author H. E. MarshallFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Living Books PressPublisher Living Books PressWeight(grams) 1290gDimensions(mm) 254mm...

Against the backdrop of a hyper-competitive AAA industry and the perception that it is a world reserved for top programmers and hard-core 'gamers', Story Mode offers an accessible entry-point for all into writing and designing complex and emotionally...

Long recognized as a master teacher at writing programs like VONA, the Loft, and the Stonecoast MFA, with A Stranger's Journey, David Mura has written a book on creative writing that addresses our increasingly diverse American literature. Mura argues for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943935116Author Susan May WarrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint My Book TherapyPublisher My Book TherapyWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

There are hundreds of books on the market all trying to teach you how to write a screenplay. Several of them are excellent and useful books. But never until now has there been a screenwriting manual written in the form of a screenplay. Our hero, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385499194Author Carol BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

In the words of novelist Harlan Ellison, "The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer. New York Times bestselling author and British Academy Award nominee J. Michael Straczynski knew he wanted to be a writer ever since he was a...

In 1839 the "Tractatus Coislinianus", a summarised treatise on comedy, was published from a tenth-century manuscript. Its discoverer suggested that it derived from the lost second book of Aristotle's "Poetics", which inaugurated the systematic study of...