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Margret Geraghty Suitable for writers, this title includes chapters that offers a writing-related discussion, followed by a five-minute exercise. Five minutes a day spent on an exercise is one of the most... | |
Jamie Cat Callan Features a 64 page booklet with exercises and instructions that focus on a 'right brain' approach to writing. This kit includes sixty exercise sticks that get stories off the ground... | Bill Bryson What is the difference between cant and jargon, or assume and presume? What is a fandango? How do you spell supersede? Is it hippy or hippie? This title includes a... |
Howard Mittelmark; Sandra Newman There are many ways prospective authors routinely sabotage their own work. But why leave it to guesswork? This title shows how you can ensure that your manuscript never rises above... | Christopher Booker Examines the basis of story telling in literature, film, and libretto. This book provides an answer to the riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories'... |
Stephen Fry Whether you want to write a Petrarchan sonnet for your lover's birthday, an epithalamion for your sister's wedding or a villanelle excoriating the government's housing policy, this book gives you... | Stephen May An insightful, practical guide to choosing and succeeding in your creative writing ventures. |
Harold Evans; Crawford Gillan A guide to the use of words as tools of communication, written primarily for journalists but of value to all who have to convey information by the written or printed... | Helen Corner An effective guide to writing bestselling fiction by a literary consultant and published author. |
Carole Blake The secret to making money from your fiction writing is not only in the quality of your work but in your approach to the publishing process, and here an industry... | Allen Frewin Jones; Lesley Pollinger A new and substantially revised edition of a popular guide to writing all forms of children's literature |
Eavan Boland; Mark Strand This anthology illuminates the history, practice, and wonder of our most elusive art, poetry. Intended for all those who love poetry, including teachers, readers, writers, and students. The anthology draws... | Ailsa Cox Useful to those who wish to improve their technique, this guide helps readers achieve their full potential as short story writers. It encourages them to be inventive, to break writing... |
William I. Strunk; E. B. White This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. This 'little' book can help students communicate more effectively, showing them how to enliven their sentences, put statements in the... | Francine Prose Long before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says the author. She aims... |