Writing
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Sid Meier’s Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
$27.95 Read moreOver his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world’s most popular video games, including Sid Meier’s Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulate
- Author: Meier, Sid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1324005874
- Language: English
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The Author’s Checklist: An Agent’s Guide to Developing and Editing Your Manuscript
$17.95 Add to cartAn Indispensable Guide for All Writers in All Genres
The bad news: even really good manuscripts have weak spots that are enough to garner rejections from agents and publishers. The good news: most of… [more below]- Author: Kracht, Elizabeth K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1608686620
- Language: English
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The Art of Writing: Lu Chi’s Wen Fu
$16.00 Add to cartWritten in the third century, this is one of the earliest Chinese works about the use of language, preceded only by the Ta Hsueh (Great Learning) of Confucius. Written by Lu Chi, a soldier-poet, the W
- Author: Lu Chi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1571314121
- Language: English
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Everyday Letters for Busy People: Hundreds of Samples You Can Adapt at a Moment’s Notice
$24.95 Read moreHere are hundreds of tips, techniques, and samples that will help you create the perfect letter (or e-mail!) no matter what the occasion or circumstance, no matter how little time you have.A phone cal… [more below]
- Author: May, Debra Hart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 15 2003
- ISBN10: 1564147126
- Language: English
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The Writer’s Process Workbook
$14.95 Add to cartIf you want to be a better writer, stop focusing on the words and take a good look at your process using this interactive workbook.
Writing isn’t a talent, it’s a process with many phases. You may be s
- Author: Janzer, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1952284082
- Language: English
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The Creativity of the Crisis
$18.00 Add to cartIt is sometimes proclaimed that crises generate creative powers. An idea to consider, beyond the banal advertising or entrepreneurial statements about the fruitful nature of crises (political, social,
- Author: Grossman, Évelyne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: September 04 2023
- ISBN10: 194062553X
- Language: English
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The Writer’s Process: Getting Your Brain in Gear
$14.99 Add to cartWant to Be a Better Writer?
To improve your writing, perfect your process. Process is a vital, unsung writing skill.
For example, do you fear the blank page? You may be skipping the essential early phas
- Author: Janzer, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0986406228
- Language: English
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Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft
$19.00 Add to cartIn this long-awaited sequel to her bestselling books Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind, Natalie Goldberg, one of the most sought-after writing teachers of our time, takes us to the next step in the… [more below]
- Author: Goldberg, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 30 2001
- ISBN10: 0553374966
- Language: English
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The Art of Creative Nonfiction: Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality
$18.95 Add to cartA complete guide to the art and craft of creative nonfiction-from one of its pioneer practitioners
The challenge of creative nonfiction is to write the truth in a style that is as accurate and informat… [more below]- Series: Wiley Books for Writers
- Author: Gutkind, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0471113565
- Language: English
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The Art of X-Ray Reading: How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing
$16.99 Add to cartRoy Peter Clark, one of America’s most influential writing teachers, offers writing lessons we can draw from 25 great texts.
Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Pet- Author: Clark, Roy Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0316282146
- Language: English
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Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You’re Doing It
$17.00 Add to cartDrawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques he has learned. Tricks of the Trade will … [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Becker, Howard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: January 19 1998
- ISBN10: 0226041247
- Language: English
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Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
$18.99 Add to cartA delightfully offbeat history of the art and science of sentence diagramming by a veteran copyeditor and writer. Grumpy grammarians, crossword-puzzle aficionados, and lovers of language will apprecia… [more below]
- Author: Florey, Kitty Burns
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 05 2007
- ISBN10: 0156034433
- Language: English
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How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them–A Misstep-By-Misstep Guide
$19.99 Add to cart“What do you think of my fiction book writing?” the aspiring novelist extorted.
“Darn,” the editor hectored, in turn. “I can not publish your novel! It is full of what we in the business call ‘really
- Author: Mittelmark, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0061357952
- Language: English
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The Book Bible: How to Sell Your Manuscript–No Matter What Genre–Without Going Broke or Insane
$14.99 Read moreA Brilliant, Buoyant Guide to Publishing Your Book
Hundreds of thousands of books come out every year worldwide. So why not yours? In The Book Bible, New York Times bestseller and wildly popular Manha… [more below]- Author: Shapiro, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1510762701
- Language: English
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Ecodeviance: (Soma)Tics for the Future Wilderness
$22.00 Add to cartListed in The Boston Globe’s Best Poetry Books of 2014
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry
Winner of The Believer Poetry Award“The (Soma)tic Exercises are innovative and crucial to our
- Author: Caconrad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1940696011
- Language: English
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Elements of Fiction Writing – Characters & Viewpoint: Proven Advice and Timeless Techniques for Creating Compelling Characters by an a Ward-Winning Au
$17.99 Read moreVivid and memorable characters aren’t born they have to be made
This book is a set of tools: literary crowbars, chisels, mallets, pliers and tongs. Use them to pry, chip, yank and sift good characters- Series: Elements of Fiction Writing
- Author: Card, Orson Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 18, 2011
- ISBN10: 1599632128
- Language: English
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Writing Great Books for Young Adults: Everything You Need to Know, from Crafting the Idea to Getting Published
$16.99 Read moreBreak into the Bestselling Young Adult Market with this Indispensable Guide!
Whether you’re just getting started or are on the hunt for an agent or publisher, Writing Great Books for Young Adults is yo
- Author: Brooks, Regina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1402293526
- Language: English
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Writing: A Project-Based Approach: Inspired Project Ideas and Mini-Lessons to Develop Authentic, Real-World Writing Skills
$18.99 Add to cartGive students authentic reasons to write with this collection of stimulating project-based learning activities. Each unit starts with a driving question that propels students to do research, investiga… [more below]
- Author: Eyster, Alyssa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1338467204
- Language: English
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Creative Writing Exercises for Dummies
$25.99 Add to cartTurn your inspiration into a story with clear, expert guidance
Creative Writing Exercises For Dummies is a step-by-step creative writing course designed to hone your craft, regardless of ability. Writ
- Author: Hamand, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 10 2014
- ISBN10: 1118921054
- Language: English
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Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular: An Informal Textbook
$15.99 Add to cartHere is a practical guide to writing short stories that explains all the essential techniques of fiction – from character and plot to flashback and foreshadowing – in a way that is both understandable… [more below]
- Author: Hills, Rust
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0618082344
- Language: English
