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Everyone Can Write: Essays Toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing by Peter Elbow 9780195104165
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $64.94With 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 and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative by Thomas Larson 9780804011013
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.03The 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... -
Creativity Matters: Find Your Passion for Writing by Wendy Jones 9781913372033
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $18.41Apologies 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... -
The Way of Story: The Craft and Soul of Writing by Catherine Jones 9781932907322
Booksplease Price: $28.98Apologies 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 -
Writing the Novella by Sharon Oard Warner 9780826362551
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.44While 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... -
How to Write a Letter: Find the Words for Every Occasion by Chelsea Shukov
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.16Apologies 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 -
Unmade Beds by Nicholas Barker 9781899235261
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $19.56Apologies 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 -
Character Depth: Keeping readers riveted with real characters, emotion & deep POV by Jordan McCollum 9781940096148
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $16.26Apologies 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... -
Mfa in a Box by John Rember 9780982579428
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $31.51Apologies 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... -
James A. Michener's Writer's Handbook: Explorations in Writing and Publishing by James A. Michener 9780679741268
RRP: $30.79Booksplease Price: $26.15Apologies 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 -
Revising Prose by Richard Lanham
RRP: $134.53Booksplease Price: $122.21This 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... -
Walk Between Heaven & Earth by Burghild Nina Holzer 9780517880968
Booksplease Price: $18.66Apologies 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 -
Off the Page: Writers Talk About Beginnings, Endings, and Everything In Between by Carole Burns 9780393330885
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $30.83How 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... -
Writing Horror Fiction by Guy N. Smith 9780713643398
Booksplease Price: $50.52This 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... -
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing by Margaret Atwood 9781400032600
RRP: $31.10Booksplease Price: $19.89Apologies 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 *... -
Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto by Sonya Huber 9781496231314
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $28.90Though 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... -
The Writer's Eye: Observation and Inspiration for Creative Writers by Amy E. Weldon
Booksplease Price: $58.95Learning 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 in Academic Writing: Effective Vocabulary and Grammar Use by Jan Frodesen 9780472034260
RRP: $40.85Booksplease Price: $40.23Exploring 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... -
Essential Literary Terms: A Brief Norton Guide with Exercises by Sharon Hamilton 9780393283891
Booksplease Price: $62.30Updated 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... -
How Fiction Works (Tenth Anniversary Edition): Updated and Expanded by James Wood 9781250183927
RRP: $37.05Booksplease Price: $21.92Apologies 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 -
Writer's Workshop: A Family-Style Writing Program by Michelle Copher 9781736062401
RRP: $136.48Booksplease Price: $101.93Apologies 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... -
Character, Scene, and Story: New Tools from the Dramatic Writer's Companion by Will Dunne 9780226393506
Booksplease Price: $39.23Will 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... -
Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts, Second Edition by Joseph Harris 9781607326861
Booksplease Price: $47.68Apologies 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 -
Student's Guide to Writing College Papers, Fifth Edition by Kate L Turabian 9780226430263
RRP: $33.15Booksplease Price: $28.37Students 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... -
The Ultimate RPG Guide Boxed Set: The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide; The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide; The Ultimate RPG Game Master's Worldbuilding Guide by James D'Amato
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $49.55Level up your campaign with these interactive activities and instructions for maximizing your storytelling skills so you can enjoy the ultimate RPG experience.Get your next campaign rolling right with The Ultimate RPG Guide Boxed Set. This collection has... -
Diachronic Syntax by Ian Roberts 9780198861461
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $104.66This 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... -
English Literature for Young People by H. E. Marshall 9780981809359
Booksplease Price: $51.54Apologies 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... -
Story Mode: The Creative Writer's Guide to Narrative Video Game Design by Professor Julialicia Case 9781350301375
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $37.97Against 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... -
A Stranger's Journey: Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing by David Mura 9780820353463
RRP: $68.15Booksplease Price: $40.77Long 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... -
The Story Equation: How to Plot and Write a Brilliant Story with One Powerful Question by Susan May Warren 9781943935116
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $17.98Apologies 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 *... -
How To Write: A Screenplay: Revised and Expanded Edition Mark Evan Schwartz 9780826428172
Booksplease Price: $52.46There 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... -
Beyond the Writers' Workshop: New Ways to Write Creative Nonfiction by Carol Bly 9780385499194
Booksplease Price: $30.95Apologies 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... -
Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer: The Artistry, Joy, and Career of Storytelling by J. Michael Straczynski
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $21.66In 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... -
Aristotle on Comedy: Towards a Reconstruction of "Poetics II" by Richard Janko 9780715631690
Booksplease Price: $62.13In 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... -
Dissertation Writing in Practice – Turning Ideas into Text by Linda Cooley 9789622096479
RRP: $34.32Booksplease Price: $28.18This book is designed to raise students' awareness of the linguistic features of a postgraduate dissertation/thesis written in English. It deals primarily with the linguistic aspects of extended pieces of writing, placing great emphasis on the writer's... -
Leap Write In! by Karen Benke
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $28.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611800159Author Karen BenkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Roost BooksPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Art and Craft of Asian Stories: A Writer's Guide and Anthology by Professor Robin Hemley
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $55.75An all-in-one craft guide and anthology, this is the first creative writing book to find inspiration and guidance in the diverse literary traditions of Asia. Including exemplary stories by leading writers from Japan, China, India, Singapore and beyond as... -
A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z by Bernard Dupriez 9780802068033
Booksplease Price: $83.17'Common-sense,' the Romantic critics told us, was all that was needed to understand and interpret literary texts. Today, we know this is not generally true. Modern criticism has joined with pre-Romantic criticism to expose common-sense as appropriate... -
Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice by Anne Caldwell
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $73.16Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice vigorously engages with the Why? and the How? of prose poetry, a form that is currently enjoying a surge in popularity. With contributions by both practitioners and academics, this volume seeks to explore how its... -
The Creative Writing Workbook by John Singleton 9780333792162
Booksplease Price: $69.87This is a companion to The Creative Writing Handbook - now in its second edition. It is very much aimed at the individual writer, based on the idea that real writing comes from within and that writing is a craft, skill with determination, art with...