Language learning: writing skills Books

Hand letter your way to happiness with these 50 joyful projects that highlight uplifting quotes and provide a variety of techniques to learn and practice.Learn intricate designs and styles as you invite joy into your life with Hand Lettering for...

From 70 of the most successful mystery writers in the business, an invaluable guide to crafting mysteries—from character development and plot to procedurals and thrillers—“this is a writing guide that readers and writers will turn to again and again”...

Become a poet and write poetry with ease with help from this clear and simple guide in the popular 101 series. Poetry never goes out of style. An ancient writing form found in civilizations across the world, poetry continues to inform the way we write...

Learn the basic techniques every successful playwright knows! Amid the hundreds of "how-to" books out there, there have been very few which attempted to analyze the mysteries of play construction. Lajos Egri's classic, The Art of Dramatic Writing, does...

From concept to finished draft-a nuts-and-bolts approach to adaptationsAspiring and established screenwriters everywhere, take note! This down-to-earth guide is the first to clearly articulate the craft of adaptation. Drawing on his own experience and on...

Learn to: Craft a winning manuscript Troubleshoot and edit your work Prepare your manuscript for publication Find a good agent to represent you Negotiate the best possible deal Turn your aspiration into reality with this completely updated guide...

A complete guide to writing and selling your novel So you want to write a novel? Great! That?s a worthy goal, no matter what your reason. But don?t settle for just writing a novel. Aim high. Write a novel that you intend to sell to a publisher. Writing...

THE FIRST ALL-IN-ONE EDITION OF P.R. SPENCER'S CLASSIC PENMANSHIP PRIMER INCLUDING STEP-BY-STEP LESSONS AND PAGES FOR PRACTICINGEasy to understand yet challenging to perfect, the Spencerian system was the standard for all personal and business...

The journal's purpose is to be of some help to anyone, whether that be offering general tips on improving one's writing or career as a writer or offering some sort of creative spark to inspire those who need it. The book has advice from a diverse set of...

Written by a longtime language arts teacher, author, librarian, university lecturer, and storyteller, Story Power provides techniques for creating and framing personal stories, and effective tips for telling them in any setting: an outdoor party or...

Discover the Life-Changing Power of Free Writing and Journaling "We all know that journaling can be a powerful self-care practice, Greta artfully shows us HOW." Suzy ReadingThe Self-Care Revolution Discover how free writing and journaling can be an...

Fans of Creative Lettering and Beyond and The Complete Book of Lettering will love Lettering for Planners.Beautiful 'bullet journals' are popping up all over Instagram and Pinterest. The joys of decorating the pages with drawings and lettering...

Creating books that will change your life Healing victims of sexual assault through transformative journaling: One in six women is the victim of sexual assault. Using her own hard-won wisdom, author Jen Cross shows how to heal through journaling and...

The HERstory Student Writing Companion is not a stand-alone publication. It is the student companion to our HERstory Curriculum Suite, and must be used in conjunction with that Curriculum Suite. This Writing Companion provides the handouts and...

HERstory is a leadership program for middle and high school girls. This preventive intervention program is composed of 5060 interactive sessions that address social emotional learning, leadership, and Common Core standards and that provide opportunities...

The Craft of Professional Writing, 2nd edition, is the most complete manual ever written for every form of professional (and professional quality) writing. Its chapters range from toasts and captions to every form of journalism to novel writing, book...

A selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader's breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by authors such as Elizabeth Strout, Sherman Alexie, Paula...

Illuminating Fiction contains nineteen interviews with fiction-writing luminaries including Edward P. Jones, Julia Glass, Amy Bloom, Jill McCorkle, Margot Livesy, Ron Carlson and Steve Almond. The interviews contain questions about narrative, voice,...

Packed with more than 16,000 imaginative, colourful phrases -- from abandoned as a used Kleenex to quiet as an eel swimming in oil -- this reference will help any politician, writer, or lover of language find the perfect simile, be it original or banal,...

Jeff Davis artfully illustrates how yoga philosophies and practices can be an invaluable ally to the writing life.'In addition to suggesting specific yoga exercises for various writing roadblocks . . . this is a substantial writing guide, with lessons in...

One of the key poets of the Beat generation, Meltzer is very well-known and respected, and the author of more than 50 books of poetry and proseUnpretentious, highly accessible guide to poetics that is as appropriate for high school as it is for MFA...

When you write a book, your work doesn't end on publication day. In fact, a key part of your job as an author is to get your book into the hands of readers...and that means you need to promote it. But how to do that?In this interactive...

A celebration of the art of handwriting, introducing famous writers, scientists and historical figures through documents written by their own hands.The less it is part of everyday life, the more the appeal of handwriting grows. This wonderful selection...

Want to make a living as a freelance writer? Here are the resources, answers, and real talk you need about what it takes to make a living as a writer for hire.Drawing on her own varied and successful years of freelance copywriting experience, Jessie Kwak...

John le Carr said the best place to start a crime novel is as near to the end of the story as possible. But how do you know what the story is?As writers, we all have different experiences and skills to draw upon, and this book will help you identify the...

'A really fun idea for a book - and full of great stuff.' Greg Jenner, Public HistorianThis is the perfect guide for any writer who wants to recreate the Roman world accurately in their fiction. It will aid any novelist, screenwriter, games designer or...

The Craft of Professional Writing is the most complete book ever written about the real-life work of being a writer. It covers topics ranging from business writing (advertising, PR) to commercial work (news reporting, feature writing, blogging,...

A practical and compact guide to writing for professionalsWriting is an essential skill in today's workplace. From messaging platforms and social media to traditional forms of communication like memos and reports, we rely on words more than ever. Given...

**Winner, Screen Research Network Outstanding Monograph Award, 2022**Telling a story is simple, right? You take a 'hero' and send them on a 'journey'. There's a beginning, middle and an end.But what if your story doesn't fit into that basic...

- Activist, socialite, and artist: Hochman has a wide network of well-known and culturally-important artists, writers, journalist, producers, and many more. She has collaborated with Gloria Steinem on The Year of the Woman (re-released recently by...

Create your liberated literary utopia When your dream and creative passion is to write, how do you succeed without selling out or selling yourself short? Ariel Gore has spent her life solving this puzzle, writing and organising her way towards a creative...

Structure a writing process by learning about brainstorming and drafting Want to write a book? Half the battle is finding a practice that works for you. Successful author and creativity expert Jessie Kwak is here to help you do just that-and have fun...

In (Don't) Stop Me If You've Heard This Before, Peter Turchi combines personal narrative and close reading of a wide range of stories and novels to reveal how writers create the fiction that matters to us. Building on his much-loved Maps of the...

"Old Poets is an indispensable jewel." -Washington Post"An astonishing array of encounters...Hall's observations are shrewd and generous." -Boston GlobeIntimate portraits of great poets in old age, giving new insight into their work and their lives, and...

Praise for John Dermot Woods: Electric Literature 25 Best Novels of 2014 "Poignant and unsettling, and much like a good short story collection these tales resonate long after the book is closed."-Largehearted Boy "An accomplished artist and writer, in...

A reconsideration of Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking A Room of One's Own through a very modern lens, revisiting Woolf's now archaic politics and mining the text for lessons on how to be a writer. The central message of A Room of One's Own is that, to...

This bookabout writing and the imagination is essential reading for any writer, emergingor experienced. Re-released with new material and updated advice for the 21stcentury writer. 'I first read DearWriter as a nervy, secretive...

Outlines a fresh approach to handwriting analysis designed to enable whole-person profiling - providing handwriting samples of famous people - coverage of how to determine emotional disturbance or mental illness and new material for understanding the...

An essential guide to cultivating joy in your professional and personal writingWriting should be a pleasurable challenge, not a painful chore. Writing with Pleasure empowers academic, professional, and creative writers to reframe their negative emotions...

More than merely a writing text, The Imaginative Argument offers writers instruction on how to use their imaginations to improve their prose. Cioffi shows writers how they can enliven argument--the organizing rubric of all persuasive writing--by drawing...

Generations of student writers have been subjected to usage handbooks that proclaim, "This is the correct form. Learn it"--books that lay out a grammar, but don't inspire students to use it. By contrast, this antihandbook handbook, presenting some three...

This fun-to-read insider's guide reveals the truth about what it takes to craft and sell a script. After a lucrative 20-year career that includes working with some of the top producers in Hollywood, Snyder opens up his notebooks and shows how he...