Creative writing Books
Chronicle Books Creative Writing
Book SynopsisThis one-of-a-kind journal is a treasure trove of inspiration for both aspiring and experienced writers. Each spread features a cool illustration paired with an imaginative writing prompt and plenty of space for putting pen to paper. The eye-catching visuals—from an all-star roster of indie illustrators—and thoughtful prompts together serve as a creative catalyst to banish fear of the blank page and get the words flowing.
£16.66
Chronicle Books 642 Lists to Write
Book SynopsisCapturing the quirky essence of 642, this new installment in the bestselling series provides list-lovers and creative writers with oodles of fun and inspiration.
£14.45
Chronicle Books Pep Talks for Writers
Book SynopsisEvery writer knows that as rewarding as the creative process is, it can often be a bumpy road. Have hope and keep at it! Designed to kick-start creativity, this handsome handbook from the executive director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) gathers a wide range of insights and advice for writers at any stage of their career. From tips about how to finally start that story to helpful ideas about what to do when the words just aren''t quite coming out right, Pep Talks for Writers provides motivation, encouragement, and helpful exercises for writers of all stripes.
£12.99
Macmillan Learning Bedford Basics
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Macmillan Learning The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors
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£22.99
John Murray Press Writing Comedy
Book SynopsisLearn how to write comedy that makes people laugh.Masterclass: Writing Comedy will reveal to both beginners and experienced writers the distinctive features that mark out comedy from other forms of creative writing. Having identified these, it will help you then to unlock your inner anarchist, and explore the different elements of comedy, using a combination of practical exercises, insight and creative inspiration. Whatever your preferred comic genre, you will find guidance on everything from wordplay and visual humour to plots, comedy characters and different styles.A section on performance will help you to hone stand-up skills, while chapters on stage and screen will give techniques and tips on how to craft a sitcom or create a sketch show. Finally, there is a uniquely frank but useful section on the realities of the markets, and the actualities of going it alone with self-publishing and self-promotion - or the tools you need to successfully pitch an idea or
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Hal Leonard Corporation How I Did it Establishing a Playwriting Career
Book SynopsisHOW I DID IT: ESTABLISHING A PLAYWRITING CAREER
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Hal Leonard Corporation Best American Short Plays 20132014
Book SynopsisTHE BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS: 2013--2014
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Hal Leonard Corporation The Best Plays of 2014 Applause Books
Book SynopsisTHE BEST PLAYS OF 2014
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Capstone Press Learning About Poems Language Arts
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£8.92
Sourcebooks, Inc College Essay Essentials A StepByStep Guide to
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£11.39
Hal Leonard Corporation 25 10Minute Plays for Kids The Applause Acting
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Hal Leonard Corporation Best Plays of 2015 the Best Plays of Year
Book SynopsisTHE BEST PLAYS OF 2015
£17.99
Hal Leonard Corporation The Best American Short Plays 20142015
Book SynopsisTHE BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS 2014-2015
£14.99
Hal Leonard Corporation 10Minute Plays for Kids Applause Acting Applause
Book Synopsis10-MINUTE PLAYS FOR KIDS
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Hal Leonard Corporation The Best Plays from American Theatre Festivals
Book SynopsisTHE BEST PLAYS FROM AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVALS: 2015
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Hal Leonard Corporation The Best American Short Plays 2015 2016
Book SynopsisTHE BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS 2015-2016
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Hal Leonard Corporation 5 Minute Plays The Applause Acting Series
Book Synopsis5 MINUTE PLAYS
£12.34
Simon & Schuster The Way of the Writer Reflections on the Art and
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£15.20
Adams Media Corporation The 1Minute Writer
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£12.82
Skyhorse Publishing Memoir Your Way: Tell Your Story through Writing,
Book SynopsisA new approach to family and personal memoirs that includes many creative formats.Memoir Your Way inspires family storykeepers to create a memoir using a craft you already know or are inspired to learn to create a personal, polished memoir your family will treasure. Accessible and with broad appeal, this first-of-its-kind book extends the written memoir form to cookbooks, scrapbooks, quilts, and other forms of storytelling.Readers of Memoir Your Way will find out how to:Create your own family cookbook like a proDesign, stitch, and create stunning quilts that preserve family memories for the next generation and create a cherished giftBring out the natural storyteller in children while building self-confidence and a sense of familyWrite engaging family stories with proven writing tipsEnrich scrapbooks with stories that might otherwise be overlooked and techniques that showcase even the memories that weren't preserved in photographsTurn your story into a graphic novel with hand-drawn illustrationsBecome the bridge for your heritage between the old world and the newMemoir Your Way makes memoir accessible to everyone, including those who don't see themselves as writers. Memoir Your Way is a valuable sourcebook for quickly and easily creating memoirs that celebrate family stories and ancestry.Trade Review"This full-color, glossy coffee-table book not only explores different forms of memoir but also contains some of the BEST MEMOIR WRITING ADVICE I’ve ever read in a condensed format. . . . Memoir Your Way is one of the most inspiring writing books I’ve read in a while. It explores the art of memoir in many different formats and gives you the tools to jump right in. Each format has examples, resources, and takeaway. It makes memoir fun, not tedious or overwhelming!" —Angela Mackintosh, blogger at WOW! Women on Writing"Quick and easy tips on how to tell a story, especially for those who do not wish to spend a lot of time writing a complete memoir. . . . Anyone who has a story to share could find this book inspiring." —Angela L. Eckhart, Hippocampus Magazine"This full-color, glossy coffee-table book not only explores different forms of memoir but also contains some of the BEST MEMOIR WRITING ADVICE I’ve ever read in a condensed format. . . . Memoir Your Way is one of the most inspiring writing books I’ve read in a while. It explores the art of memoir in many different formats and gives you the tools to jump right in. Each format has examples, resources, and takeaway. It makes memoir fun, not tedious or overwhelming!" —Angela Mackintosh, blogger at WOW! Women on Writing"Quick and easy tips on how to tell a story, especially for those who do not wish to spend a lot of time writing a complete memoir. . . . Anyone who has a story to share could find this book inspiring." —Angela L. Eckhart, Hippocampus Magazine
£12.99
Brush Education Inc Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing
Book SynopsisElements of Indigenous Style offers Indigenous writers and editors—and everyone creating works about Indigenous Peoples—the first published guide to common questions and issues of style and process. Everyone working in words or other media needs to read this important new reference, and to keep it nearby while they’re working. This guide features: * Twenty-two succinct style principles. * Advice on culturally appropriate publishing practices, including how to collaborate with - Indigenous Peoples, when and how to seek the advice of Elders, and how to respect Indigenous Oral Traditions and Traditional Knowledge. * Terminology to use and to avoid. * Advice on specific editing issues, such as biased language, capitalization, and quoting from historical sources and archives. * Case studies of projects that illustrate best practices.
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Broadview Press Ltd The Broadview Reader
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Coach House Books Theatre of the Unimpressed: In Search of Vital
Book SynopsisHad I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces? Maybe theatre was like an all-consuming high school infatuation that now, ten years later, I saw as the closeted balding guy with a beer-gut he’d become. There were of course those rare moments of transcendence that kept me coming back. But why did they come so few and far between?A lot of plays are dull. And one dull play, it seems, can turn us off theatre for good. Playwright and theatre director Jordan Tannahill takes in the spectrum of English-language drama from the flashiest of Broadway spectacles to productions mounted in scrappy storefront theatres to consider where lifeless plays come from and why they persist. Having travelled the globe talking to theatre artists, critics, passionate patrons and the theatrically disillusioned, Tannahill addresses what he considers the culture of risk aversion’ paralyzing the form.Theatre of the Unimpressed is Tannahill’s wry and revelatory personal reckoning with the discipline he’s dedicated his life to, and a roadmap for a vital twenty-first-century theatre one that apprehends the value of liveness’ in our mediated age and the necessity for artistic risk and its attendant failures. In considering dramaturgy, programming and alternative models for producing, Tannahill aims to turn theatre from an obligation to a destination.[Tannahill is] the poster child of a new generation of (theatre? film? dance?) artists for whom interdisciplinary” is not a buzzword, but a way of life.’ J. Kelly Nestruck, The Globe and MailJordan is one of the most talented and exciting playwrights in the country, and he will be a force to be reckoned with for years to come.’ Nicolas Billon, Governor General's Awardwinning playwright (Fault Lines)Jordan Tannahill is a playwright, theatre director, and filmmaker. His plays and short films have been presented in theatres, festivals, and galleries across Canada and internationally. He received the 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama for his book Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays. In collaboration with William Ellis, Jordan runs the alternative art-space Videofag, out of a defunct barbershop in Toronto's Kensington Market.
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Broadview Press Ltd Templates: A Guide to Writing Sentences
Book SynopsisBeginning with the simple two-word sentence and working up to multi-clause possibilities, Templates shows students how to manipulate syntactic patterns for maximum rhetorical effect. Although it teaches grammar, it does not do so with the goal of correcting mistakes. Rather, it encourages writers to make full use of the complexity and flexibility of English sentence structure. Combining an emphasis on the writing process with both an awareness of audience and a raised consciousness about English grammar, Templates takes a unique approach to sentence-level writing and revision.Exercises throughout the book help students to move from simpler sentence structures to more complex multi-clause constructions.Key features: - Emphasizes the rhetorical possibilities of sentence structure - Grammatical analysis is demonstrated in terms of syntactic “templates” - Shows how the writer can play to audience awareness of these templates - Promotes sentence-level editing as the fine-tuning stage of the writing process - Usage issues are presented as choices based on level of formality, rather than as prescriptive rules - Includes a glossary of grammatical terms Trade Review“Stephen Lewis explains the often complicated aspects of English syntax in a relatable way, providing writers with useful tools to simplify sentence structure. With his templates as a foundation, students will easily be able to develop their unique style, equipped with the knowledge of why it is good writing.” — Jackie Hendricks, Santa Clara UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionRationale for This ApproachHow to Use This BookA Note on TerminologyChapter One: What Is a Template?English Syntax as TemplatesExercisesChapter Two: The Intransitive TemplateSubjects and VerbsThe Basic TemplateExpanding the Intransitive TemplateMatters of StyleDelaying the SubjectReversing Subject and VerbMatters of UsageFragmentsSubject-Verb AgreementAdjectives and AdverbsExercisesChapter Three: The Linking TemplateThe Basic TemplateExpanding the Linking Verb TemplateOther Linking VerbsMatters of StyleMatters of UsageAdjectives and AdverbsThe Case of Pronouns in the Subjective ComplementSubject-Verb AgreementExercisesChapter Four: The Transitive Template I: Direct ObjectsThe Nature of ObjectsThe Basic TemplateVoiceExpanding the Transitive Verb TemplateMatters of StyleChoosing Active or PassivePossible Ambiguity in the Passive VoiceMatters of UsageSubject-Verb AgreementAdjectives and AdverbsPronoun CaseSpecial Cases in Transitive/Intransitive TemplatesExercisesChapter Five: The Transitive Template II: Indirect ObjectsIndirect ObjectsThe Basic TemplatesExpanding the TemplatesMatters of StyleMatters of UsagePronoun CaseSubject-Verb AgreementExercisesChapter Six: The Transitive Template III: Objective ComplementsObjective ComplementsThe Basic TemplateExpanding the TemplateMatters of StyleMatters of UsageSubject-Verb AgreementPronoun CasePossible AmbiguityExercisesChapter Seven: Compound TemplatesCompound Sentences and CoordinationThe Basic TemplatesMatters of StyleMatters of UsageExercisesChapter Eight: Dependent Clause Templates I: Adverb ClausesAdverb ClausesThe Basic TemplatesMatters of StyleMatters of UsageExercisesChapter Nine: Dependent Clause Templates II: Adjective ClausesAdjective Clauses and Relative PronounsOther Connecting WordsAdjective Clauses Modifying SubjectsAdjective Clauses Modifying ObjectsThe Basic TemplatesMatters of StyleMatters of UsageRelative Pronoun CaseRestrictive and Non-Restrictive ClausesEnding a Sentence (or Clause) with a PrepositionExercisesChapter Ten: Dependent Clause Templates III: Noun ClausesNoun ClausesThe Basic TemplatesMatters of StyleMatters of UsageExercisesGlossaryIndex
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Broadview Press Ltd Speaking of Writing: A Brief Rhetoric with MLA
Book SynopsisCan a writing textbook inform and entertain? Can a very brief rhetoric also function as a stand-alone guide to college writing? Yes and yes. Speaking of Writing is a concise yet comprehensive rhetoric with readings. Informed by scholarship in Writing Studies, this book follows four college students from diverse backgrounds as they face the challenges of reading, writing, and critical thinking in first-year writing and across the disciplines. Each chapter engages students in relatable, often humorous scenarios that focus on key challenges.Through its story-based approach, Speaking of Writing enacts student-centered and process-based pedagogy, showing students learning to address fundamental questions: How can I apply my own strategies for success to new assignments? How can I maintain my own voice when asked to compose in an academic style? What do college professors mean by a "thesis," and how is this different from what my high-school teachers meant? Why is this argument weak, and how can I make it stronger? The book's narrative vividly dramatizes a draft-and-revision process that includes instructor feedback, peer review, and careful research.Trade Review“Speaking of Writing has everything a writing textbook should have—chapters on rhetoric, summary, analysis, argument and thesis, revision, documenting sources, voice and style—doing so using characters and often humorous narratives that my students found engaging, intuitive, and effective. Each chapter includes a variety of activities, from easy to more difficult, which are easy to combine with specific assignments. It is a book both students and instructors will cherish.” — James Pasto, Master Lecturer, Arts and Sciences Writing Program, Boston University“Speaking of Writing is unique in its ability both to engage students in first-year composition and to provide truly practical advice for multidisciplinary critical reading and writing situations.” — Stacey Donohue, Professor of English, Central Oregon Community College“I love this textbook! I thought Speaking of Writing was just going to be another boring old dull English book, but surprisingly this one is really interesting! The four students in the book provide personal experiences which I found helpful. I got to know what and how other people write, and the students’ strategy for developing a writing process was very interesting to read.” — Stephen Wu, Student, University of Ottawa“In Speaking of Writing: A Brief Rhetoric, Allegra Goodman and Michael Prince provide an indispensable, engaging guide to basic rhetorical concepts and how to write well. Through a creative structure and engaging prose, they make dry and difficult-to-parse concepts come to life, allowing readers to discover what makes writing work and not work in chapters that mimic the process of learning when guided by cogent, thoughtful instructors. … readers looking for an introduction to or a primer on essential writing and rhetorical concepts will be hard-pressed to find another textbook as fun, educational, and interesting.” — Dylan Schrader, Technical CommunicationTable of Contents Note to Students 1 What You Bring/What You Can Expect Writing a Literacy Narrative. Attitudes What You Bring What You Can Expect Developing a Writing Process Writing a Literacy Narrative Prewriting Freewriting Drafting Sharing a Draft Revising the Narrative ACTIVITIES 2 Rhetoric and the Rhetorical Situation Writing a Persuasive Letter. What Is Rhetoric and Why Does It Matter? Purpose Audience Genre New Genres, Unfamiliar Situations Rhetorical Appeals Ethos Pathos Logos Kairos Using Rhetorical Appeals ACTIVITIES 3 From Reading to Writing about Texts Writing a Paraphrase and Summary. Writing an Analysis of a Text. What Makes Reading Difficult? Previewing as a First Step Note-taking as a Second Step Note-taking as Active Learning Strategies for Note-taking Using a T Chart Annotation Identifying Verbal Signals Annotation Inspires Larger Questions Paraphrase Summary Distilling the Main Idea Brevity and Accuracy Using Paraphrase and Summary as Ends in Themselves Using Summary to Build an Argument From Reading to Writing: Analysis ACTIVITIES 4 From Reading to Writing about Images Writing an Analysis of an Image. Beyond a Quick Glance—Starting to Read Images What Makes Reading Images Difficult? Visual Signals Informational Images: Graphs and Charts Expressive Images: Drawings, Paintings, Photographs Rhetorical Appeals of Images Learning to Read Images Taking Notes on Images From Description to Analysis: An Everyday Object From Description to Analysis: A Photograph From Description to Analysis: A GraphParaphrasing Visual Material From Description to Analysis: An Illustration ACTIVITIES 5 Building an Argument: Claims and Support Writing an Opinion Piece. Writing a Review. What Is an Arguable Claim? Different Kinds of Argument Understanding and Avoiding Fallacies Fallacies of Pathos Fallacies of Ethos Fallacies of Logos Defining Your Terms Argument and Audience Argument Assignments Writing an Opinion Piece Understanding the Genre Coming Up with a Claim Supporting a Claim Arguing Step by Step Anticipating Possible Objections Concluding the Argument Writing a Review Understanding the Genre Coming Up with a Claim Qualifying a Claim Arguing Step by Step Anticipating Possible Objections Concluding the Review ACTIVITIES 6 Academic Argument: Thesis and Organization Writing a Thesis and Introduction. What Is a Thesis? What Is the Difference between Topic and Thesis? Moving from Topic to Thesis What Is the Scope of Your Topic? Consider Purpose, Genre, and Audience Consider the Significance of Your Topic Assert Your Own View in Contrast to Others Ask a Thought-Provoking Question The Style of a Thesis: First or Third Person? Position? Format? What Signal Does Your Thesis Send? Developing a Thesis How a Thesis Sets the Parameters of Your Work Using a Thesis to Outline Your Paper ACTIVITIES 7 Draft and Revision Writing a Comparison Paper. Draft: Where Do I Start? Examine Your Assignment Develop a Game Plan Gather and Take Notes on Your Material Build Your Draft from Notes Revision Revision Checklist Does My Writing Respond to My Assignment? Do I Need a Thesis? If So, Do I Have One? Do I Define My Terms Where Necessary? Does My Evidence Support My Thesis? Do I Show How My Evidence Supports My Thesis? Do I Address Possible Objections? Do I Develop My Ideas? Do I Guide the Reader with Step by Step Paragraphs and Smooth Transitions? Does My Conclusion Add Value? The Importance of Proofreading Draft and Revision throughout College Drafting a Comparison Essay Examine Your Assignment Narrowing Your Topic Developing a Thesis Devising a Game Plan Gathering Material and Taking Notes Building a Draft from Notes Introduction Supporting Paragraphs Conclusion Peer Review Responding to Instructor’s Comments ACTIVITIES 8 Responding to Other Voices/Other Sources Practicing Quotation. Why Is It Important to Cite Sources? Citation and the Rhetorical Situation Forms of Documentation: Examples from MLA, APA, and Chicago A Good IDEA Avoiding Dropped Quotes, Missing Documentation, and Unexplained Evidence Using IDEA to Document a Text Using IDEA to Document a Video Using IDEA to Document an Image Using IDEA to Integrate Quotations Responding to Other Voices Working Collaboratively and Working Alone Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism ACTIVITIES 9 Writing and Research Writing a Research Paper. Crafting a Multi-Modal Portfolio. What Is Research? Where Does It Begin? Starting with the Assignment Research Materials Identifying a Topic that Motivates You Initial Search: Relevant and Reliable Sources Refining a Question with Key Terms Seeking Expert Advice Sorting and Selecting Sources What Kind of Source Is This? What Is the Focus of This Source? Is This Material I Want to Study Further? Taking Notes on Selected Sources Synthesizing Material to Tighten Focus For Best Results, Re-Search Developing an Annotated Bibliography Drawing upon Research to Develop a Thesis Statement Building a Draft from Notes Peer Review for a Research Project Revising a Research Paper Controlling the Evidence So the Evidence Doesn’t Control You Responding to Other Researchers Multi-Modal Research Identifying a Topic Gathering and Sorting Sources Evaluating Each Source for Relevance and Reliability Using IDEA to Prepare an Online Portfolio Organizing the Portfolio Writing an Introduction to the Portfolio ACTIVITIES 10 Voice and Style What Is Voice? How Can I Maintain My Own Voice in College Writing? What If I’m Not Sure I Have a Voice? What Is Style? Writers Adopt a Style to Send a Message Where Does Style Come From? Diction Guidelines for Diction Consider the Rhetorical Situation Avoid Wordiness and Repetition Syntax Guidelines for Syntax Consider the Rhetorical Situation Aim for Clarity Adopt a Style, Maintain a Voice ACTIVITIES Works Cited About the Authors About the Illustrator Permissions Acknowledgments Index
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Graywolf Press Art of Intimacy The The Space Between
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£10.99
Hal Leonard Corporation You Can Write a Play!
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£12.99
Limelight Editions Writing the 10-Minute Play
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£999.99
Skinner House Books The Release
Book SynopsisThe release is the stage when writers share the soul of their project—its gift. Here’s how to thrive and best serve your work once the writing is done. In The Release, award-winning author and teacher Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew invites writers to lift their heads out of the product-oriented sandbox and find an alternative way to play. By returning writers to their original delight and guiding them in an ongoing creative practice, Andrew helps form habits of mind, heart, and body to support a project’s final flourishing, free from the burdens of seeking validation and measuring worth. With the same skill and compassion she brought to her other resources for writers—Writing the Sacred Journey: The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir and Living Revision: A Writer''s Craft as Spiritual Practice—Andrew writes with deep empathy for the emotional journey when a work is done, through celebration and grief, decisions around publication, the angst of receiving negative feedback or rejection, and the sometimes surprising challenges that come with success. Anyone—amateurs and professionals alike, those who intend to publish and those who do not, those with book-length manuscripts and those with haiku written on paper scraps—can do this practice. This book is for anyone who wants to release their work with love.
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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Stage Writers Handbook: A Complete Business Guide
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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. The Playwright's Voice: American Dramatists on
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£15.29
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Spider Speculations: A Physics and Biophysics of
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£15.29
Red Wheel/Weiser Toasts for All Occasions
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£11.39
Coffee House Press How We Speak to One Another
Book SynopsisHow We Speak to One Another is some of the most engaging evidence we’ve got that the essay is going strong. Here, essayists talk back to each other, to the work they love and the work that disquiets them, and to the very basic building blocks of what we understand essay” to be. What’s compiled in these pages testifies to the endless flexibility, generosity, curiosity, and audacity of essays. Even more than that, it provides the kind of pleasure any great essay collection doesupsetting our ideas and challenging the way we organize our sense of the world.Ander Monson is the author, most recently, of Letter to a Future Lover: Marginalia, Errata, Secrets, Inscriptions, and Other Ephemera Found in Libraries (Graywolf Press). He is also the author of Vanishing Point, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Neck Deep and Other Predicaments.Craig Reinbold's writing has appeared in journals and magazines including the Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, New England Review, Guernica, Gulf Coast, and Brevity. He was the managing editor of Essay Daily from 2013 to 2016.Contributors include: Ander Monson, Marcia Aldrich, Kristen Radtke, Robin Hemley, Robert Atwan, Matt Dube, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, T. Clutch Fleischmann, Rigoberto González, Kati Standefer, Julie Lauterbach-Colby, César Diaz, Emily Deprang, Lucas Mann, Danica Novgorodoff, Bonnie J. Rough, Peter Grandbois, Albert Goldbarth, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Steven Church, Bethany Maile, David Legault, Joni Tevis, John D'Agata, Meehan Crist,Thomas Mira Y Lopez, Danielle Deulen, John T. Price, Maya L. Kapoor, Chelsea Biondolillo, Megan Kimble, Brian Doyle, Nicole Walkder, Paul Lisicky, Brian Oliu, Pam Houston, Dave Mondy, Phillip Lopate, Amy Benson, Patrick Madden, Elena Passarello, Erin Zwiener, Patricia Vigderman, and Ryan Van Meter.Trade Review“Less a practical guide than an anthology of think pieces, How We Speak to One Another will nonetheless send nonfiction writers eagerly back to their desks. And it’s a fun read, even for nonwriters.” —Publishers Weekly “This book clearly demonstrates the essay is alive and well, kicking and evolving, grappling with its place in literature.”—Kirkus Reviews “How We Speak wins its argument that the essay is worthy of extended contemplation.”—Booklist “This collection confirms what Ander Monson suggests in the introduction: each essay is one in a network of intersecting tunnels, forming a landscape of ideas and experiences about what it means to be human.”—Cleaver "To read the collected essays here is to feel invited to a salon."—Signature “In veering from one [essay] to another the book, as a whole, finds its energy. The heart of these essays lies in the revelation of a preoccupation of the author through their examination of another’s text.”—Puerto Del Sol "These writers look at the essay forty-seven ways through both words and images, following thoughts wherever they may lead. And there, Monson notes, 'sometimes something interesting happens.' In How We Speak to One Another, many interesting thoughts definitely do happen."—Woven Tale Press “With their shared literacies, prosaic disguises, madcap readings, and possible plagiarisms, the essays in [How We Speak to One Another] form a beguiling echo chamber.”—Brazos “Essays react, essays entertain, essays establish, essays contradict, and essays beget—illustrations, discussions, illuminations, and of course more essays. This big collection of (of course) small or manageably sized essays about great essays offers beautiful comics and reminiscences, fake interviews and real fencing, along with approachable, step-by-step, classroom- and subway-car- friendly lit crit. And it does not just try (or `essay’) to do things you’ll remember, things you’ll appreciate (from introducing Samuel R. Delany to helping you write past trauma), it succeeds.”—Steph BurtTable of ContentsIntroduction * A Fat Man Story: ANDER MONSON on HL Mencken's "A Forgotten Anniversary" * MARCIA ALDRICH on Bernard Cooper Invisible Engineering: The Fine Art of Revising: “The Fine Art of Sighing” * MARYA HORNBACHER on What an Essay is Not * KRISTEN RADTKE on Chris Marker's “Sans Soleil” * Majestic Ruins: ROBIN HEMLEY on The Work of James Agee * MARGOT SINGER on Relics, Alchemy, and Primo Levi’s “Chromium” * ROBERT ATWAN: The Assault on Prose: John Crowe Ransom, New Criticism, and the Status of the Essay * LUCAS MANN: On Writing Young * MATT DUBE on Joan Didion, Repo Man, and a '76 Malibu * MARK EHLING: “Two Clowns on Tarkovsky” * T CLUTCH FLEISCHMANN Wants You to Read Samuel Delany * KATI STANDEFER on the Mysterious Leslie Ryan and the Structure of a Trauma Narrative * JULIE LAUTERBACH-COLBY on Arianne Zwartjes’ “This Suturing of Wounds and Words” and Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel’s “Cannulated Screw” * Living Within the Ellipses: CÉSAR DIAZ on Ilan Stavans' book On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language * SEAN LOVELACE on Augusto Monterroso's "Fecundity" * SEAN PRENTISS on Charles Bowden's "Torch Song" * EMILY DEPRANG on Joan Didion: On the Morning After My Twenties * Email from BONNIE J. ROUGH * STEVEN BARTHELME: Talent and Fifty Cents * ALISON HAWTHORN DEMING on Julian Barnes * STEVEN CHURCH on Tom Junod's "The Falling Man" * BETHANY MAILE: We Sought But Couldn't Find - Coming Up Empty in David Shields' “Death is the Mother of Beauty” * GENINE LENTINE on Michael Cunningham & the Nemesis * Movie Quotes as Misery: DAVID LEGAULT on Claudia Rankine's "Don't Let Me Be Lonely" * CASSANDRA KIRCHER: On E.B. White, Adoption, and Writing Hybrid Reviews * JONI TEVIS on the Long Lyric Essay * MICHAEL MARTONE: More or Less: the Camouflage Schemes of the Fictive Essay * JOHN D'AGATA: The Essays of Ansel Adams: An Allegory * MEEHAN CRIST's 10 Thoughts on Elision * CRAIG REINBOLD: John D’Agata Breaks Rules, Windows * NED STUCKEY-FRENCH: Time for a New Essay - Eric Walrond's "On Being Black" * THOMAS MIRA Y LOPEZ on Donald Hall’s "Out the Window” * JILL TALBOT on The VanMeteresque * DANIELLE DEULEN on the Virtues of Drowning: Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water * COLIN RAFFERTY on Sherman Alexie's “My Encounters With the Homeless People of the Pacific Northwest” * JOHN T. PRICE: On Hoagland, Animal Obsession, and the Courage of Simile * MAYA L. KAPOOR on Writing Trout * CHELSEA BIONDOLILLO: On Long Winters, Short Essays, and a Sky that Stretches Forever * MEGAN KIMBLE on Wendell Berry and Why I'm Not Going to Buy A Smartphone * BRIAN DOYLE: It is a Shaggy World, Studded with Gardens * PETER JAY SHIPPY: Angle On * NICOLE WALKER on Rebecca Campbell's Thick Paint * PAUL LISICKY on The Fugue, Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother, DFW, and the Resistance to the One Thing * ALISO STINE on Street Art * BRIAN OLIU on The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling by David Shoemaker * PAM HOUSTON on Rick Reilly's "Need a Fourth" from Sports Illustrated, March 31, 1997 * DAVE MONDY on Jim Bouton * PHILLIP LOPATE on A Little-Known Gem by Max Beerbohm * JOY CASTRO on Margery Latimer’s “The New Freedom”: A Manifesto of the Modernist as a Young Woman * AMY BENSON on Eliot Weinberger's "Wrens" * WENDY RAWLINGS on Natalia Ginzburg's The Little Virtues * PATRICK MADDEN on Charles Lamb’s “New Year’s Eve” * ELENA PASSARELLO on the Book of Days * PATRICIA VIGDERMAN on Alexander Stille * RYAN VAN METER on Endings
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University of South Carolina Press Writers and Their Notebooks
Book SynopsisThis title peeks inside the writerly testing grounds of Sue Grafton, Kim Stafford, Maureen Stanton, and others. This collection of essays by well-established professional writers explores how their notebooks serve as their studios and workshops - places to collect, to play, and to make new discoveries with language, passions, and curiosities. For these diverse writers, the journal also serves as an ideal forum to develop their writing voice, whether crafting fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. Some entries include sample journal entries that have since developed into published pieces. Through their individual approaches to keeping a notebook, the contributors offer valuable advice, personal recollections, and a hardy endorsement of the value of using notebooks to document, develop, and nurture a writer's creative spark. Designed for writers of all genres and all levels of experience, ""Writers and Their Notebooks"" celebrates the notebook as a vital tool in a writer's personal and literary life.Trade Review"Diana Raab... has done such a sensitive job of gathering these diverse, eloquent, and experienced voices and encouraging their thoughtful, heartbreaking, rambunctious, free flights of testimony and speculation into being. Freedom is a frequent theme in these pages. The freedom to try out things, to write clumsy sentences when no one is looking, to be unfair, immature, even to be stupid. No one can expect to write well who would not first take the risk of writing badly. The writer's notebook is a safe place for such experiments to be undertaken." - Phillip Lopate, from the foreword"
£19.76
Milkweed Editions Views from the Loft: A Portable Writer's Workshop
Book SynopsisTeachers, exercises, mentors, critiques, humor, and inspiration: these form the fuel all writers need when they get down to work every day. For decades the Loft Literary Center has provided this fuel to an enormous community of writers. Views from the Loft brings together the collected wisdom of that community -- its authors, students, and editors -- giving anyone the tools and inspiration necessary to thrive in the writing life. A who's who of writers on writing ranging from the National Book Award--winning poet Mark Doty to Newbery medal--winning children's author Kate DiCamillo, and touching on issues as delicate as the representation of family in memoir and as hilarious as a "sad-epiphany poem" mad lib for frustrated poets, this book is an essential collection of crucial tips and challenging questions for everyone who puts pen to page. The essays and interviews in this book include superstar writers like Rick Bass, Michael Cunningham, Grace Paley, Susan Power, Susan Straight, Marilyn Hacker, and many, many more.
£14.24
New World Library Mastering Creative Anxiety: 24 Lessons for
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Allworth Press,U.S. Creating Your Own Monologue
Book SynopsisShows beginning and experienced actors how to use their acting skills to write successful monologues, performance art pieces, and one-person plays. This second edition breaks down the writing process into easy-to-follow steps, providing tips for brainstorming, questions to ask along the way, and words of wisdom from actors and scriptwriters.
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Skyhorse Publishing Writing the Great American Romance Novel
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Gotham Writers' Workshop Writing Fiction: The
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F&W Publications Inc The Writer's Guide to Crafting Stories for
Book SynopsisCreate Unforgettable Stories for Kids!You dream of writing stories that children respond tothe kind they come back to again and again. Nancy Lamb can help you achieve that dream. She mixes insightful advice for mastering storytelling with dozens of examples that illustrate a variety of plot-building techniques.Nancy''s instruction covers everything from format and content to setting and characterization. She also draws from a range of children''s classics, including Where the Wild Things Are, Charlotte''s Web and Bridge to Tarabithia to explore and illuminate the unique nature of children''s literature.Nancy also shares writing tips and tricks accumulated through years of successful storytellinginvaluable advice for crafting fiction that resonates with children of all ages, from 4 to 14 and beyond.
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F&W Publications Inc Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook: Hands-on
Book SynopsisMake Your Novel Stand Out from the Crowd!Noted literary agent and author Donald Maass has done it again! His previous book, Writing the Breakout Novel, offered novelists of all skill levels and genres insider advice on how to make their books rise above the competition and succeed in a crowded marketplace.Now, building on the success of its predecessor, Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook calls that advice into action! This powerful book presents the patented techniques and writing exercises from Maass''s popular writing workshops to offer novelists first-class instruction and practical guidance. You''ll learn to develop and strengthen aspects of your prose with sections on: • Building plot layers • Creating inner conflict • Strengthening voice and point of view • Discovering and heightening larger-than-life character qualities • Strengthening theme • And much more! Maass also carefully dissects examples from real-life breakout novels so you''ll lean how to read and analyze fiction like a writer. With authoritative instruction and hands-on workbook exercises, Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook is one of the most accessible novel-writing guides available.Set your work-in progress apart from the competition and write your own breakout novel today!
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F&W Publications Inc Write Great Fiction - Characters, Emotion &
Book SynopsisCreate Complex CharactersHow do you create a main character readers won''t forget? How do you write a book in multiple-third-person point of view without confusing your readers (or yourself)? How do you plant essential information about a character''s past into a story?Write Great Fiction: Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint by award-winning author Nancy Kress answers all of these questions and more! This accessible book is filled with interactive exercises and valuable advice that teaches you how to: • Choose and execute the best point of view for your story • Create three-dimensional and believable characters • Develop your characters'' emotions • Create realistic love, fight, and death scenes • Use frustration to motivate your characters and drive your story With dozens of excerpts from some of today''s most popular writers, Write Great Fiction: Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint provides you with the techniques you need to create characters and stories sure to linger in the hearts and minds of agents, editors, and readers long after they''ve finished your book.
£13.96
F&W Publications Inc Crafting the Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing
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F&W Publications Inc Writer with a Day Job: Inspiration & Exercises to
Book SynopsisDon’t let the daily grind drain your creative energy!You can work full time and still have a productive writing life. Many writers waste time waiting for the day they can finally quit their day jobs and live the so-called writing dream. Don’t wait. You can do both †and your writing will be the better for it.Balancing a full-time job and a productive writing life is no easy feat! This book offers writers advice, skill-building techniques, prompts, and exercises in every chapter, and strategies on how to get and keep writing while also working the 9 to 5 grind.Readers will discover tips and exercises for: • Setting and protecting personal writing goals • Creating a schedule that complements their stamina • Getting creative before and after work - and on their lunch hour • Finding inspiration in the most unlikely of spots and at the most impromptu of times • Writing proficiently in multiple forms (long and short) so that they don't get bogged down writing one long project • Becoming an active participant in writing communities so they have a solid support system at the ready • Figuring out how (if at all) to share their writing life with co-workers, friends, and family membersYou’ll also get quick, practical tutorials to help you master scenes, point of view, characters, settings, dialogue, and more.Writer With a Day Job gives you the strategies and motivation you need to work 40 hours a week (or more!) and achieve writing success.
£13.29
Celestial Arts Writing as a Sacred Path: A Practical Guide to
Book SynopsisA supportive guide to approaching writing as a sacred art and to discovering spirituality through the process of writing.In this inspiring guide, writing teacher and anthropologist Jepson draws on her worldwide travels and studies of spiritual traditions to present a refreshing approach to the art of writing. Through rituals, exercises, dream analysis, and more, writers will find fresh techniques for honing their skills, overcoming creative blocks, and finding their authentic voices, while writing bravely, honestly, and with true vision.
£14.99
Red Wheel/Weiser Wise Earth Speaks to Your Spirit
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£14.24
