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A Poetry Handbook

A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry

de Mary Oliver ...

“Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that’s what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook.”— Los Angeles TimesFrom the beloved and acclaimed poet, an ultimate guide to writing and understanding poetry.With passion and wit, Mary Oliver skillfully imparts ... Leer más

$13.99 USD

“Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that’s what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook.”— Los Angeles TimesFrom the beloved and acclaimed poet, an ultimate guide to writing and understanding poetry.With passion and wit, Mary Oliver skillfully imparts
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Consider This

Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different

de Chuck Palahniuk ...

In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk shares stories and generous advice on what makes for powerful writing.With advice grounded in years of careful study and a keenly observed life, Palahniuk combines practical advice and concrete examples from beloved classics, his own books, and a "kitchen-table MFA" culled from an evolving circle of beloved ... Leer más

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In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk shares stories and generous advice on what makes for powerful writing.With advice grounded in years of careful study and a keenly observed life, Palahniuk combines practical advice and concrete examples from beloved classics, his own books, and a "kitchen-table MFA" culled from an evolving circle of beloved
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A Long Game

Notes on Writing Fiction

de Elizabeth McCracken ...

From bestselling and award-winning author and professor Elizabeth McCracken comes an irresistible look at the art of writing.Writing can feel like an endless series of decisions. How does one face the blank page? Move a character around a room? Deal with time? Undertake revision? The good and bad news is that in fiction writing, there are no definitive answers to such questions: writers must come ... Leer más

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From bestselling and award-winning author and professor Elizabeth McCracken comes an irresistible look at the art of writing.Writing can feel like an endless series of decisions. How does one face the blank page? Move a character around a room? Deal with time? Undertake revision? The good and bad news is that in fiction writing, there are no definitive answers to such questions: writers must come
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Worldbuilding for Plot: A Mini Guide to Creating Worlds that Drive Story

Step By Step Worldbuilding, #15

de A Trevena ...

Series Libro 15 - Step By Step Worldbuilding
Struggling to turn your worldbuilding into an actual story? Got pages of ideas, but no clear sense of what should happen, or how to make it happen?Worldbuilding for Plot shows you how to create worlds that don't just sit in the background, but actively create the conditions your story needs. By building power, pressure, and consequence into your setting, you can create worlds that naturally ... Leer más

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Struggling to turn your worldbuilding into an actual story? Got pages of ideas, but no clear sense of what should happen, or how to make it happen?Worldbuilding for Plot shows you how to create worlds that don't just sit in the background, but actively create the conditions your story needs. By building power, pressure, and consequence into your setting, you can create worlds that naturally
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How to Build a Culture

An Author’s Guide to Building Rich and Diverse Cultures

de A Trevena ...

Series Libro 5 - Author Guides
Want to create a rich culture for your world, but don’t know where to start?Need help building unique and diverse societies that feel organic?How to Build a Culture breaks the process down into easy-to-follow steps. By completing a series of creative prompts, this book will elevate your worldbuilding from flat and formulaic to inventive and authentic.This workbook will help you to:Build societies ... Leer más

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Want to create a rich culture for your world, but don’t know where to start?Need help building unique and diverse societies that feel organic?How to Build a Culture breaks the process down into easy-to-follow steps. By completing a series of creative prompts, this book will elevate your worldbuilding from flat and formulaic to inventive and authentic.This workbook will help you to:Build societies
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Building Fantasy Cities: An Author’s Guide to Creating Fictional Urban Landscapes

Step By Step Worldbuilding, #13

de A Trevena ...

Series Libro 13 - Step By Step Worldbuilding
Want to build a vivid, believable fantasy city but aren't sure where to begin? Need help creating urban districts, power structures, and hidden alleyways filled with story potential?Building Fantasy Cities breaks the process down into easy-to-follow steps. With guided questions and creative prompts, this book will walk you through designing a city that feels alive, layered, and full of character ... Leer más

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Want to build a vivid, believable fantasy city but aren't sure where to begin? Need help creating urban districts, power structures, and hidden alleyways filled with story potential?Building Fantasy Cities breaks the process down into easy-to-follow steps. With guided questions and creative prompts, this book will walk you through designing a city that feels alive, layered, and full of character
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On Writing Horror

A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association

Edición de Mort Castle ...

The masters of horror have united to teach you the secrets of success in the scariest genre of all!In On Writing Horror, Second Edition, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison, David Morrell, Jack Ketchum, and many others tell you everything you need to know to successfully write and publish horror novels and short stories.Edited by the Horror Writers Association (HWA), a worldwide ... Leer más

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The masters of horror have united to teach you the secrets of success in the scariest genre of all!In On Writing Horror, Second Edition, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison, David Morrell, Jack Ketchum, and many others tell you everything you need to know to successfully write and publish horror novels and short stories.Edited by the Horror Writers Association (HWA), a worldwide
... Leer más
Crafting Magic: A Mini Guide to Creating Magic for Fantasy Worlds

Step By Step Worldbuilding, #9

de A Trevena ...

Series Libro 9 - Step By Step Worldbuilding
Want to create unique and compelling magic systems for your world, but don't know where to start? Need help designing magical traditions that feel rich and believable?Crafting Magic provides clear and insightful information to help you design magical systems that are as unique as the worlds they inhabit. This mini guide offers a deep dive into the creation of diverse forms of magic, helping you ... Leer más

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Want to create unique and compelling magic systems for your world, but don't know where to start? Need help designing magical traditions that feel rich and believable?Crafting Magic provides clear and insightful information to help you design magical systems that are as unique as the worlds they inhabit. This mini guide offers a deep dive into the creation of diverse forms of magic, helping you
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How to Map Your World

An Author's Guide to Mapping Fictional Worlds

de A Trevena ...

Series Libro 6 - Author Guides
Want to create a fantasy landscape that feels real and immersive?Need help drafting a map that enriches the experience of your world?How to Map Your World breaks the process down into easy-to-follow steps. By completing a series of creative prompts, this book will show you how to map out an engaging world full of stories and adventure.This workbook will help you to:- Lay out your world in a way ... Leer más

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Want to create a fantasy landscape that feels real and immersive?Need help drafting a map that enriches the experience of your world?How to Map Your World breaks the process down into easy-to-follow steps. By completing a series of creative prompts, this book will show you how to map out an engaging world full of stories and adventure.This workbook will help you to:- Lay out your world in a way
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How to Forge Desire and Dominion: An Author’s Guide to Building Romantasy Worlds

Step By Step Worldbuilding, #14

de A Trevena ...

Series Libro 14 - Step By Step Worldbuilding
Want to build a fantasy world where passion, loyalty, and power collide? Need help creating courts, alliances, and traditions that control who people love, marry, and betray?How to Forge Desire and Dominion breaks the process down into simple, creative steps. With a series of imaginative prompts, this book will help you create a world where desire, ambition, and fate are the forces that rule ... Leer más

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Want to build a fantasy world where passion, loyalty, and power collide? Need help creating courts, alliances, and traditions that control who people love, marry, and betray?How to Forge Desire and Dominion breaks the process down into simple, creative steps. With a series of imaginative prompts, this book will help you create a world where desire, ambition, and fate are the forces that rule
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How to Craft Wonder and Woodsmoke: An Author’s Guide to Building Cosy Fantasy Worlds

Step By Step Worldbuilding, #11

de A Trevena ...

Series Libro 11 - Step By Step Worldbuilding
Want to write a warm, low-stakes fantasy world but worry it will feel flat or dull? Struggling to balance gentleness and charm with depth and meaningful storytelling?How to Craft Wonder and Woodsmoke breaks the process down into simple, creative steps. With a series of imaginative prompts, this book will help you create a world that feels rich, real, and quietly magical.This workbook will help you ... Leer más

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Want to write a warm, low-stakes fantasy world but worry it will feel flat or dull? Struggling to balance gentleness and charm with depth and meaningful storytelling?How to Craft Wonder and Woodsmoke breaks the process down into simple, creative steps. With a series of imaginative prompts, this book will help you create a world that feels rich, real, and quietly magical.This workbook will help you
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And Then? And Then? What Else?

de Daniel Handler, Lemony Snicket ...

You never love a book the way you love a book when you are ten.Writing as Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler has led several generations of young readers into that special and curious space of being hopelessly lost, and joyfully finding yourself, in the essential strangeness of literature. The wondrous and perilous journey of the Baudelaire orphans sprung from the author’s own path, from his childhood ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

You never love a book the way you love a book when you are ten.Writing as Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler has led several generations of young readers into that special and curious space of being hopelessly lost, and joyfully finding yourself, in the essential strangeness of literature. The wondrous and perilous journey of the Baudelaire orphans sprung from the author’s own path, from his childhood
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Page One to Done

Finish Your Novel in 30 Days with the Fast Drafting Method

de Jessica Brody ...

Finally finish the first draft of your novel with a method that maximizes efficiency, speed, and joy—from the author of Save the Cat! Writes a Novel.After months (or years) of writing, are you left with nothing but a folder full of false starts? Do you have a novel you were once excited to write but abandoned after only a few chapters—or even halfway through? Are you trapped in an endless cycle of ... Leer más

$9.99 USD

Finally finish the first draft of your novel with a method that maximizes efficiency, speed, and joy—from the author of Save the Cat! Writes a Novel.After months (or years) of writing, are you left with nothing but a folder full of false starts? Do you have a novel you were once excited to write but abandoned after only a few chapters—or even halfway through? Are you trapped in an endless cycle of
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Pity the Reader

On Writing with Style

de Kurt Vonnegut, Suzanne McConnell ...

"A rich, generous book about writing and reading and Kurt Vonnegut as writer, teacher, and friend . . . Every page brings pleasure and insight."— Gail Godwin, New York Times bestselling authorHere is an entirely new side of Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut as a teacher of writing. Of course he's given us glimpses before, with aphorisms and short essays and articles and in his speeches. But never before ... Leer más

$14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

"A rich, generous book about writing and reading and Kurt Vonnegut as writer, teacher, and friend . . . Every page brings pleasure and insight."— Gail Godwin, New York Times bestselling authorHere is an entirely new side of Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut as a teacher of writing. Of course he's given us glimpses before, with aphorisms and short essays and articles and in his speeches. But never before
... Leer más
How to Write a Damn Good Novel, II

Advanced Techniques for Dramatic Storytelling

de James N. Frey ...

The acclaimed author of How to Write a Damn Good Novel offers master-class advice on writing gripping, emotionally charged, dramatic fiction."Damn good" fiction is dramatic fiction, Frey insists, whether it is by Hemingway or Grisham, Le Carre or Ludlum, Austen or Dickens. Despite their differences, these authors' works share common elements: strong narrative lines, fascinating characters, ... Leer más

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The acclaimed author of How to Write a Damn Good Novel offers master-class advice on writing gripping, emotionally charged, dramatic fiction."Damn good" fiction is dramatic fiction, Frey insists, whether it is by Hemingway or Grisham, Le Carre or Ludlum, Austen or Dickens. Despite their differences, these authors' works share common elements: strong narrative lines, fascinating characters,
... Leer más
Make Your Story Matter

An Interactive Guide to Unlocking Your Brain's Storytelling Power and Writing a Book Readers Love

de Abbie Emmons ...

USA Today BestsellerYou’ve got a story inside you—but writing it feels impossible.What if writing didn’t have to be a struggle? What if all you had to do was harness your brain's natural storytelling instincts to craft the book you’ve always dreamed of?If you’re having trouble bringing your story to life, the problem isn’t you. It’s that you’ve been buried under a mountain of rigid rules, t... ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

USA Today BestsellerYou’ve got a story inside you—but writing it feels impossible.What if writing didn’t have to be a struggle? What if all you had to do was harness your brain's natural storytelling instincts to craft the book you’ve always dreamed of?If you’re having trouble bringing your story to life, the problem isn’t you. It’s that you’ve been buried under a mountain of rigid rules, t...
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A Poet's Glossary

de Edward Hirsch ...

A major addition to the literature of poetry, Edward Hirsch’s sparkling new work is a compilation of forms, devices, groups, movements, isms, aesthetics, rhetorical terms, and folklore—a book that all readers, writers, teachers, and students of poetry will return to over and over.Hirsch has delved deeply into the poetic traditions of the world, returning with an inclusive, international compendium ... Leer más

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A major addition to the literature of poetry, Edward Hirsch’s sparkling new work is a compilation of forms, devices, groups, movements, isms, aesthetics, rhetorical terms, and folklore—a book that all readers, writers, teachers, and students of poetry will return to over and over.Hirsch has delved deeply into the poetic traditions of the world, returning with an inclusive, international compendium
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The Indie Author Survival Guide

How to Stay Profitable, Productive, and Sane in a Tougher Market

de Tracy Cooper-Posey ...

Series Libro 3 - Productive Indie
The Indie Author Survival GuideHow to Stay Profitable, Productive, and Sane in a Tougher MarketIndie publishing got harder.The algorithms shifted. The market crowded. The “just publish and they will come” era quietly packed up and left. And now a lot of smart, hardworking fiction authors are wondering why the old strategies aren’t delivering the same results.You’re not imagining it.The Indie ... Leer más

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The Indie Author Survival GuideHow to Stay Profitable, Productive, and Sane in a Tougher MarketIndie publishing got harder.The algorithms shifted. The market crowded. The “just publish and they will come” era quietly packed up and left. And now a lot of smart, hardworking fiction authors are wondering why the old strategies aren’t delivering the same results.You’re not imagining it.The Indie
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Writing Unforgettable Characters

How to Create Story People Who Jump Off the Page

de James Scott Bell ...

What will take your fiction from good to great? From decent to dazzling? From lackluster to blockbuster?Characters who "jump off the page."Of course plot matters. So does conflict, and scenes, and every other aspect of the fiction craft. But without unforgettable characters, your books will always be less than they could be.Don't let that happen.In WRITING UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTERS you'll learn:How ... Leer más

$4.99 USD

What will take your fiction from good to great? From decent to dazzling? From lackluster to blockbuster?Characters who "jump off the page."Of course plot matters. So does conflict, and scenes, and every other aspect of the fiction craft. But without unforgettable characters, your books will always be less than they could be.Don't let that happen.In WRITING UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTERS you'll learn:How
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The Art of the Graphic Memoir

Tell Your Story, Change Your Life

de Tom Hart ...

The #1 New York Times –bestselling author and Eisner Award–nominated cartoonist's poignant and instructive guide for all aspiring graphic memoirists.Detailing the tenets of artistry and storytelling inherent in the medium, Tom Hart examines what makes a graphic memoir great, and shows you how to do it. With two dozen professional examples and a deep-dive into his own story, Hart encourages ... Leer más

$17.29 USD

The #1 New York Times –bestselling author and Eisner Award–nominated cartoonist's poignant and instructive guide for all aspiring graphic memoirists.Detailing the tenets of artistry and storytelling inherent in the medium, Tom Hart examines what makes a graphic memoir great, and shows you how to do it. With two dozen professional examples and a deep-dive into his own story, Hart encourages
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The Art of Brevity

Crafting the Very Short Story

de Grant Faulkner ...

With increased compression, every word, every sentence matters more. A writer must learn how to form narratives around caesuras and crevices instead of strings of connections, to move a story through the symbolic weight of images, to master the power of suggestion.With elegant prose, deep readings of other writers, and scaffolded writing exercises, The Art of Brevity takes the reader on a lyrical ... Leer más

$9.99 USD

With increased compression, every word, every sentence matters more. A writer must learn how to form narratives around caesuras and crevices instead of strings of connections, to move a story through the symbolic weight of images, to master the power of suggestion.With elegant prose, deep readings of other writers, and scaffolded writing exercises, The Art of Brevity takes the reader on a lyrical
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The Art of Intimacy

The Space Between

de Stacey D'Erasmo ...

Series series Art of...
The first work of nonfiction by Stacey D'Erasmo, author of the New York Times Notable Books Tea and The Sky Below"What is the nature of intimacy, of what happens in the space between us? And how do we, as writers, catch or reflect it on the page?" Stacey D'Erasmo's insightful and illuminating study examines the craft and the contradictions of creating relationships not only between two lovers but ... Leer más

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The first work of nonfiction by Stacey D'Erasmo, author of the New York Times Notable Books Tea and The Sky Below"What is the nature of intimacy, of what happens in the space between us? And how do we, as writers, catch or reflect it on the page?" Stacey D'Erasmo's insightful and illuminating study examines the craft and the contradictions of creating relationships not only between two lovers but
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Talk of the Devil

The Collected Writings of Ian Fleming

de Ian Fleming ...

A fascinating literary collection of rarely seen journalism and other writings by Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series.Ian Fleming was best known for bringing to life the legendary character of James Bond, one of the most beloved and enduring icons of our time, but he was perhaps even more interesting than his creation. His career in Naval Intelligence and extensive travels around the ... Leer más

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A fascinating literary collection of rarely seen journalism and other writings by Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series.Ian Fleming was best known for bringing to life the legendary character of James Bond, one of the most beloved and enduring icons of our time, but he was perhaps even more interesting than his creation. His career in Naval Intelligence and extensive travels around the
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Writing Short Romance for Pleasure and Profit

de Sadie King, Sadie B. King ...

Learn the tips, tricks, and strategies to get your short romance into the hands of readers and earn the money you deserve!Packed full off information including:• My number one marketing tool that works every time.• The key actions that catapulted me to a six-figure income.• How to plan a series your readers will want to binge read.• Rapid release strategies for every author.• How to hit key ... Leer más

$9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Learn the tips, tricks, and strategies to get your short romance into the hands of readers and earn the money you deserve!Packed full off information including:• My number one marketing tool that works every time.• The key actions that catapulted me to a six-figure income.• How to plan a series your readers will want to binge read.• Rapid release strategies for every author.• How to hit key
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