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Works of art move and inspire us to think in new ways. And their creation is within your reach -- the techniques required to create works of art simply take time, thoughtfulness, and a willingness to experiment. This sequel to Selling's popular "Writing from Within" includes a summary of his basic method which teaches you to write using the subject you know best: yourself. But "Writing from Deeper Within" also contains more advanced techniques that...
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Expanding on the philosophy and methods of The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling, John Muir Laws and Emilie Lygren have developed the first-ever comprehensive book devoted to helping educators use nature journaling as an inspiring teaching tool to engage young people with wild places. In their workshops Laws and Lygren are often asked the how-tos of teaching nature journaling: how to manage student groups in the outdoors, teach drawing skills...
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"Would you read this book if a computer wrote it? Would you even know? And why would it matter? Today's eerily impressive artificial intelligence writing tools present us with a crucial challenge: As writers, do we unthinkingly adopt AI's time-saving advantages or do we stop to weigh what we gain and lose when heeding their siren call? To understand how AI is redefining what it means to write and think, linguist and educator Naomi Baron leads us on...
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WRITING PROGRAMS WORLDWIDE offers an important global perspective to the growing research literature in the shaping of writing programs. The authors of its program profiles show how innovators at a diverse range of universities on six continents have dealt creatively over many years with day-to-day and long-range issues affecting how students across disciplines and languages grow as communicators and learners.
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How to Save Time, Earn More, Work Less by Publishing Backwards?
The situation that most starting authors have (and I've seen the same thing you've run into) is: How the hell do you get from here to there? You hear and (are constantly told) about these outrageously successful authors. But only a very small few percent of people actually achieve that. If you want to be successful you've got to study success. What I found by studying all these guys...
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Learn the craft of writing from those who know it best. This is the Writers on Writing Vol.1 - 4 Omnibus — An Author's Guide where your favorite authors share their ultimate secrets in becoming and being an author.
Includes: The Infrastructure of the Gods by Brian Hodge, The Writer's Purgatory by Monique Snyman, Why Rejection is Still Important by Kevin Lucia, Real Writers Steal Time by Mercedes M. Yardley, What Right Do I Have to Write by Jasper...
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For all the anxiety that surrounds the college admissions process, one part of the application lies completely within a student s control: the essay. In this book, Rachel Toor writing instructor and coach at all levels from high school to senior faculty, and former admissions officer at Duke University shows that the key to writing a successful application essay is learning to present an honest portrait of yourself.
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Starting to write a novel is hard. Finishing one? Even harder. With this guide you can check write a novel off your list. A feat you can accomplish in three days.
Unlike novels written over longer periods of time, writing in the Zone blasts past common obstacles to finishing. Once you know how to channel the Zone, you may never write a novel any other way.
Key areas covered in this guide:
• Why novels go unfinished.
• How actual three-day...
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Want to write novels that feel real enough to the reader to have been ripped from the headlines, whatever your genre? Think like a journalist. Journalists consult sources and reference materials to find realistic detail for their stories. But if you're a novelist - you have to build the reference source for your story world from scratch. Which is why you need to start setting rules and parameters with a STORY BIBLE OVERVIEW.
Get ready to get organized...
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Want to write novels that feel real enough to the reader to have been, ripped from the headlines, whatever your genre? Think like a journalist. Journalists carefully consider HOW happened to figure out WHY it happened. Fiction writers need to do the same thing. For novelists HOW and WHY refer to plot and theme.
Get ready to delve into the concepts of plot and theme. Whatever your characters are doing throughout the course of your story, whatever...
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Want to write novels that feel real enough to the reader to have been ripped from the headlines, whatever your genre? Think like a journalist. You want to evoke a feeling of WHEN and WHERE that will make readers feel like they have just taken a walk through your story world. Take a few cues from how journalists do this. For novelists WHEN and WHERE relate to setting.
Get ready to dig into the concept of setting. WHEN and WHERE the heck are your...
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Every writer begins their writing journey with the question, where do I start?
Writing the book is half the battle, the other half is the publishing process.
When I published my first book (KaleStone), I knew nothing about publishing and paid Amazon $3,000 to handle publishing for me. Now I have published several books (The Backup Superhero, The Original Superheroes, and Anywhere Else) for free, received several publishing contracts, and continue...
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Want to write novels that feel real enough to the reader to have been ripped from the headlines, whatever your genre? Think like a journalist. Just like a journalist, as a fiction writer, you will need to define WHAT your story is about. For the novelist WHAT relates to premise.
Get ready to explore the concept of premise. Those people in your head, desperate to be part of a story? They need something to do. It's the all-important WHAT that your...
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Publishing is the currency of academia. But if publishing is so important, why is it so hard to find time to write? Making Time to Write exposes how women's experiences with writing in their careers are mired in the racist, ableist, patriarchal culture of academia that was built to exclude them. Building on her experience navigating the academy to become a tenured, full professor, and her work as a writing and career coach for hundreds of academic...
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Write Fast. Write Well. Get Paid.
These were the watchwords of old-school pulp fiction: fun, fast-paced, and immensely popular with readers.
The pulp era is coming back.
Blending timeless lessons from the grandmasters of the pulp era with the genres, tastes and technologies of today, PulpRev forges boldly ahead into the future of fiction.
Award nominated writer Kit Sun Cheah teams up with Misha Burnett to compile a selection of essays on the PulpRev...
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You know you need a reader magnet. You know it will help you attract newsletter subscribers, launch to a bigger audience, and find more success as an indie author. You know that a good reader magnet can turn casual readers into superfans, and superfans into evangelists.
Everyone says so.
But knowing and doing are two different things, especially when all the advice out there is overwhelming and confusing.
Write this, not that. Use this service...
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Freelance writing as a career has never been in more demand due to the internet's demand. If the thought of a career that allows you to choose the location you want to work in, the ability to choose your own hours, and the absence of a boss dictating what you do then freelance writing could be for you. Some freelance writers make up to six figure incomes. It all depends on the genre they write in and the hours that they decide to put into their craft....
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A Kite in the Wind is an anthology of essays by 20 veteran writers and master teachers. While the contributors offer specific, practical advice on such fundamental aspects of craft as characterization, character names, the first person point of view, and unreliable narrators, they also give extended, thoughtful consideration to more sophisticated topics, including imminence," or the power of a sense of beginning; creating and maintaining tension;...
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Do you feel like you have a book inside of you but don't know how to bring it to life? Writing a book is not about having supernatural talent that only a lucky few are born with, it's a process you can learn and even enjoy!
Imagine not only finishing the book you've been wanting to write, but putting together a publication path for that book which will help you meet your unique goals and dreams.
Whether your book is fiction or nonfiction, “Portable...
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