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This essential writing tool demonstrates how "elements of style" function in the composition and editing process of writing. It's useful for any student from middle school through college as a quick……続きを見る

Write personal and professional communications with clarity, confidence, and style. How to Write It is the essential resource for eloquent personal and professional self-expression. Award-winning jo……続きを見る

In Advice to Writers, Jon Winokur, author of the bestselling The Portable Curmudgeon, gathers the counsel of more than four hundred celebrated authors in a treasury on the world of writing. Here are……続きを見る

In his first edition of Write from the Heart, Hal Zina Bennett presented a spiritual approach to writing that showed both beginners and seasoned authors how to overcome blocks, unleash their creativ……続きを見る

You want to write a play but you have no idea how to start. This book will help you to enter the exciting world of scriptwriting step by step. What makes a good dramatic story? How do you get inspir……続きを見る

Employment law has grown ever more complex with many changes now being introduced via European legislation. Employment law continually evolves and changes - and this latest publication from Straight……続きを見る

In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.’s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of the……続きを見る

"The Forest for the Trees should become a permanent part of any writer's or editor's personal library." -The Seattle Times Quickly established as an essential and enduring companion for aspiring wri……続きを見る

For decades, Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434 class at UCLA has been the premier screenwriting course, launching a generation of the industry's most frequently produced writers. Here, he shares the se……続きを見る

Discover the tricks that your brain uses to keep you from writingーand how to beat them. Do you: Want to write, but find it impossible to get started? Keep your schedules so full that you don’t hav……続きを見る

This book chronicles the development of electronic literacies through the stories of individuals with varying backgrounds and skills. Authors Cynthia L. Selfe and Gail E. Hawisher employ these stori……続きを見る

Writing the Fire! offers writers a new and visionary practice: using yoga to release the body’s inner intelligence and then support, shape, and inform the creative process. Indeed, “writing is yoga,……続きを見る

Collins Webster’s Easy Learning Writing is an accessible guide to successful writing in the English language. With clear, concise explanations of everything from the basics of sentence and paragraph……続きを見る

This classic guide, from the renowned novelist and professor, has helped transform generations of aspiring writers into masterful writersーand will continue to do so for many years to come. John Gar……続きを見る

At a time when various political and administrative bodies are calling for the dissolution of basic writing instruction on four-year college campuses, the need for information concerning the options……続きを見る

From the best-selling author of Rubyfruit Jungle and Bingo, here is a writers' manual as provocative, frank, and funny as her fiction. Unlike most writers' guides, this one had as much to do with ho……続きを見る

The first draft is the easy part… In Blueprint Your Bestseller, Stuart Horwitz offers a step-by-step process for revising your manuscript that has helped bestselling authors get from first draft to ……続きを見る

To many, the task of writing about one's life seems daunting and difficult. Where does one begin? What stories will inspire your children and grandchildren, and which will simply amuse them? "W……続きを見る

Studies confirm what avid journalers have always known: writing helps you move forward in your life, heal, and realize your dreams. This inspiring book balances basic instructions in the art of jour……続きを見る

When Patti Smith was plagued with writer’s block ー “scattered and stymied, surrounded by unfinished songs and abandoned poems” ー playwright Sam Shepard advised her, “When you hit a wall, just kick……続きを見る

New Playwriting Strategies has become a canonical text in the study and teaching of playwriting, offering a fresh and dynamic insight into the subject. This thoroughly revised and expanded second ed……続きを見る

Explore five of Writing Show host Paula B's most popular articles. Collection includes: Writing Dialogue 1: The Importance of Character Agenda Writing Dialogue 2: Combining Dialogue and……続きを見る

Like real life, the writing life is filled with contradictions and perplexities. The world of commercial publishing is counter-intuitive and writers dive in weighed down with misconceptions, delusio……続きを見る

The amount of information available for any realistic complex situation is likely to overwhelm most users, as well as stymie any designer tasked with presenting the information. Providing large amou……続きを見る

The Courage to Write is an invaluable book and essential reading for anyone who wishes to learn how to write well. Katherine Anne Porter called courage "the first essential" for a writer. "I have to……続きを見る

Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profound effect reading has had on his life. Pat Conroy, the beloved American storyteller, is a voracious……続きを見る

Lynn V. Andrews takes the reader with her as she goes on inward journeys with the help of the Sisterhood of the Shields, and relates the stories of others. Join her as she is initiated into the Sist……続きを見る

You already have the tools to become a gifted writer; what you need is the spark. Harvard creative writing professor and acclaimed author Bret Anthony Johnston brings you an irresistible interactive……続きを見る

Get Started in Creative Writing is an indispensible guide to unlocking your creativity, finding your voice and choosing a genre of writing that suits you best, whether fiction or non-fiction, short ……続きを見る

Dialogue must contribute to the telling of the story said Victorian-era novelist Anthony Trollope more than one hundred years ago and his words have been a yardstick for writers ever since. A more r……続きを見る