Category: Writing
You've written a book, triumphantly typed 'The End', but now, it seems, no-one wants to publish it. What do you do next? Author of over thirty novels, stories and screenplays, and tutor on the prestigious creative writing course at Bath Spa, Fay Weldon has a lifetime of wisdom to impart on the art of wr ...Show more
Category: Writing
In the digital age of instant communication, handwriting is less necessary than ever before, and indeed fewer and fewer schoolchildren are being taught how to write in cursive. Signatures--far from John Hancock's elegant model--have become scrawls. In her recent and widely discussed and debated essays, ...Show more
Category: Writing | Series: Complete Photo Guide Ser.
Written by best-selling author and hand letterer Abbey Sy, The Complete Photo Guide to Hand Lettering and Calligraphy covers the basics and beyond for creative lettering techniques. The book begins with an overview of tools and materials, both traditional (pointed pen and fountain pen) and modern (incl ...Show more
Category: Writing
Blake Snyder is back with the book countless readers and students have clamoured for. Inspired by questions from his workshops, lectures, and emails, Blake listened and provides new tips, tactics, and techniques to solve your writing problems and create stories that resonate: The 7 warning signs you mig ...Show more
Category: Writing
From Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters, The Fuse Box offers writing strategies and guidance on keeping the faith from some of our best writers. Starting with the instigating spark, through to currents and connections, these essays shine a light on the creative process. They ...Show more
Category: Children - Reference
Being a writer is good because you get paid to write stuff up, you can stay home and work in your pajamas and you get to travel because it's research. Being a writer is bad when you're sitting all by yourself staring at a blank page. Brigid Lowry knows the highs and lows of being a writer, but she still ...Show more
Category: Writing
DoP - November 2008 160pp Using a framework based on principles of teaching and learning, this guide for teachers and teacher trainees provides a wealth of suggestions for helping learners at all levels of proficiency develop their reading and writing skills and fluency. By following these suggestions ...Show more
Category: Writing
The seventeenth edition of the bestselling guide to everything to do with writing. Completely revised, updated and enlarged, the new edition of The Writer's Handbook contains over 6,000 entries covering every area of writing. In addition to the key areas of UK and US book publishers and agents, magaz ...Show more
Category: Writing | Series: Writers' and Artists'
The best-selling guide to markets in all areas of the media, completely revised and updated, containing 8 new articles, 3 new listings and a foreword by top author Maeve Binchy. New listings include: Creative writing courses for writersUseful libraries for writersWriter's retreats New articles in ...Show more
Category: Writing
Bringing together twenty-two writers to discuss eating as more than simple sustenance, editor Daniel Halpern writes in his introduction, this collection is about 'Eating our slice of daily bread, but not for the intake of that slice alone.' These writers reveal the curiosity, romance, faith, and insight ...Show more
Category: Writing
Writing a novel can be a slow, painful and lonely process. Many writers never manage to achieve their goal. This inspirational book will help you to rediscover the joy of your craft and rekindle your creative fire. Leading contemporary authors offer you support, guidance and encouragement as well ...Show more
Category: Writing
Today's highly competitive fiction market requires writers to imbue their novels with "that special something"-an element that captures readers' hearts and minds. In Once More, With Feeling! writers will learn vital techniques for writing emotion into their characters, plots, dialogue in order to instil ...Show more
