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Becoming a writer
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Dorothea Brande |
Originally published in 1934, this is a book that doesn't show its age at all. The only thing that the author doesn't cover is computer use, apart from that her advice remains timeless. If you want t… |
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The writing life
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Annie Dillard |
A meditative reflection in anecdote and vignette on Annie Dillard's writing process. Beautiful and vivid prose.
Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An Amer… |
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101 of the world's greatest books
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Spencer Armstrong |
Contains author biographical information and plot synopses of 101 books published prior to 1937. Authors include Henry Fielding, Sir Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leo Tolstoy, Jane Auste… |
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Il Romanticismo Popolare
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James Smith Allen |
This book is an Italian translation by Loretta Casalboni of a revised version of "Popular French Romanticism: Authors, Readers, and Books in the 19th Century" (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Pre… |
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Women writers of the short story
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Heather McClave |
A collection of essays on the work of six female American short story writers: Sarah Orne Jewett, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor.
Authors a… |
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What would your character do?
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Eric Maisel |
A book of thirty scenarios to help the writer work out the personality of their characters. For instance, No. 28 is a Sudden Success and explores how your character would react to a sudden improvemen… |
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Desiring Dragons
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Kevan Manwaring |
This is a lovely thoughtful book about the journey of writing fantasy. Its author brings together a wealth of learning from all manner of sources to create a beguiling work that covers a lot of groun… |
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Writing With Emotion, Tension, and Conflict
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Cheryl St. John |
With an easy to read style and section headings such as *Conflict makes the story*, *Once more with feeling*, *Setting is more than a backdrop*, *Tension and pressure*, *Dialogue*, and *Drawing emoti… |
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Dialogue
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Robert McKee |
From the author of *Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting* comes a new work on how to write dialogue for fiction writers. McKee brings his vast knowledge and puts it … |
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Writer on a Budget
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Sarah E Lentz |
A book about how to format and publish the book you want to even when money is tight. |
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Writing the Pilot
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William Rabkin |
This is the second book in William Rabkin's excellent Writing the Pilot series. |
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The Hired Girl
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Laura Amy Schlitz |
Ever since the untimely death of her mother, 14 year-old Joan Skraggs has been desperately unhappy. Under the thumb of her cruel father and three sullen brothers, Joan lives like a servant on their f… |
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Careers for your characters
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Franz Neumann,Raymond Obstfeld |
Detailed information on 101 professions in 15 categories:
* Advertising
* Architecture
* Clergy
* Courtroom Professionals
* Dentistry
* Education
* Firefighting
* Journalism
* L… |
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The Works Key Stage 2
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Pie Corbett |
Poems of different forms and themes for Years 3,4,5 and 6 with activities and lesson plans. |
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Look! I Wrote a Book! (And You Can Too!)
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Sally Lloyd-Jones |
A step by step picture book to help children learn how to structure a story. |
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Buffy and the Art of Story Season One
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L. M. Lilly,Lisa M. Lilly |
Bestselling author Lisa M Lilly takes apart every episode in the first season of Joss Whedon's cult TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She examines major plot points and turns, character arcs, metap… |
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Successful television writing
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Lee Goldberg,William Rabkin,William Rabkin |
In this book Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin give practical advice on how to discover a television show's franchise, how to use the four act structure, what are the elements of a good story, how to p… |
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Magical thought in creative writing
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Anne Deirdre Wilson |
Wilson defines imagination and the real meaning of fantasy. |
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Screenwriting
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Paul Joseph Gulino |
From the first chapter: "The great challenge in writing a feature-length screenplay is sustaining audience emotional involvement from page one through 120. Most writers can dash off a ten or fifteen … |
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Jumpstart! storymaking
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Pie Corbett |
Discusses the importance of teaching and learning storytelling in the classroom in the introduction and then gives a lot of useful and fun activities and resources for classroom teachers.
The bes… |
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