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"In Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow, Steve Almond employs the radical empathy he displayed as co-host (with Cheryl Strayed) of the podcast Dear Sugars to explore the joys and trials of storytelling, and to explode the myths that hold us back from writing our deepest and truest work. The book includes chapters on plot, character, and chronology, but travels far beyond the earnest intentions of most craft books. It includes essays on humor, sex,...
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"This engaging book helps readers understand how to write fiction, conveying this writing’s purpose, its essential elements, and all steps of the writing process. Each book also features a “Write Like a Pro” special feature, infographic, several “Did You Know?” facts, a table of contents, a reading comprehension quiz, a glossary, additional resources, and an index"--
4) Unstuck
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Twelve-year-old Lyla sets out to write the perfect fantasy novel in her creative writing class, but discovers some unexpected twists and turns, both on and off the page. Includes twenty-five ways to overcome writer's block.
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One of the most comprehensive guides currently on the market, MASTERING THE BUSINESS OF WRITING is an insider's guide to the business of being a professional writer. All aspects of the publishing industry are explained, both for the aspiring author and the established writer wishing to jump start a professional career. This guide includes everything you need to know about publishers, agents, and the track to success, including: What agents do and...
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Tienes una historia que contar al mundo
Tienes una historia que contar y no sabes como llevarla al papel. Conseguir una historia que no aburra y bien estructurada. Pero nadie te ha enseñado cómo hacerlo... hasta ahora.
Me llamo Raimon Samsó, soy autor de 32 libros, y he conseguido 2 premios literarios y he vendido cientos de miles de ejemplares.
Este libro te revelará las claves de mi éxito literario. He resumido lo que aprendí leyendo, hablando...
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Tired of being stuck in a chair behind a desk?
Do you want to write more without sacrificing your health and sanity?
Learn how you can get more written while
Hiking or just going for a stroll
Driving
Watching your kids play at the park
Taking a bath
Multiple New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson has written 160 books-nearly fifteen million words!-most of them by dictating into a hand-held recorder while hiking.
Award-winning novelist...
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Two New York Times—bestselling authors use personal experiences to teach how to work with a writing partner and what problems you may encounter.
In a creative project, are two heads better than one?
Writing partnerships can produce a remarkable synergy, building on each other's talents to create work unlike anything the individual authors could do alone. On the other hand, unsuccessful collaboration can be disastrous and has ruined many a friendship.
Kevin...
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"An Airport Ate the Neighborhood" comes from the writing collection, Essays & More Straight from the Pen, available in print and as an eBook. This memoir is a historical accounting of astonishing facts about the world's busiest airport, which covers the early years and some events from the author's life as a delinquent child and young adult. Anyone who lives or works near an airport may be able to identify with the experience of change generated through...
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This second edition of Emotion Amplifiers teaches you to use conditions and states-pain, arousal, dehydration, addiction, etc.- that will make it difficult for a character to emotionally self-regulate, setting them up for overreactions, misjudgments, and (hopefully) colossal mistakes they'll have to fix and learn from. Use these 52 amplifiers to force them to face their errors, acknowledge their true feelings, and work through the contradictions at...
11) Why am I Fat?
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Why am I Fat is an insightful look in to why more and more people are finding themselves overweight. It is not a "criticism" but rather a help guide in to getting free from the power of food over our lives, our lack of self control and our inability to be able to say "No". You will find in reading this book that often, there are larger issues and mindsets that also need to be addressed/dealt with.
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The fangs of terror have struck. Perhaps you were the one thrown out of the house. Your ex took all of your money, drained your resources, burned your clothing, slashed your tires, called your relatives and friends telling them you are a dog, sent letters of complaint to your boss, stood up in church proclaiming you as wicked and even had the audacity to poison your cat.The first and most lasting advice is to do everything you can to avoid this train...
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Updated for 2016!
New additions include:
Calculating how much and when you'll be paid by Amazon;
Figuring how much you'll be paid by Createspace;
Understanding the Amazon genre categories so you can rank;
Complete run-downs on promotions that worked for me.
That's more than 10,000 additional words in this updated 2nd edition!
You'll also get more than 45 Facebook author groups that are great for promoting your free eBook days. In addition there's...
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Do you think libraries don't buy books from self-published authors? Think again.
In a 2016 survey conducted by US-based library service New Shelves Books, 92 percent of librarians reported they regularly purchase from self-published authors and small presses.
Clearly, librarians are buying self-published books that fit their acquisitions guidelines.
And libraries are full of avid readers. This Quick and Easy Guide from the AskALLi team at the Alliance...
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The material contained in this eBook is formatted to be a working guide. The contents will challenge you to explore profile characteristics in your partnership or marriage that may not be readily obvious.Understanding the character traits and core values of our partner permits us to create an effective yardstick to gauge the strength of our union. Useful tools will permit us to measure where we are in the growth of our oneness and where we are headed.How...
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A true romance that began after Wayne reluctantly agreed to write Karen. A mutual friend pleaded with him to write her and try to help; she wanted to break the chain of her addiction to methadone.Her heart called his to make it whole. The poem Wayne wrote for Karen peeked into the future, where spirituality would merge the gap between peace and pain for him to find comfort in a situation he could not understand. Two Broken Hearts touched where only...
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The bestselling Negative and Positive Trait Thesauruses have now been combined into one convenient book: The Character Trait Boxed Set. This digital file contains the original two volumes in their entirety, including the instructive how-to content and thesaurus entries-over 200 personality traits in total. Thanks to embedded hyperlinks, writers can move from entry to entry with ease and view conflicting traits with the click of a button. Take your...
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The 12 Key Pillars of Novel Construction takes the mystery out of building a solid story and shows you how to go from idea to complete novel in practical, easy-to-understand steps.Build smart!Over and over, struggling writers make the same fatal mistakes in their manuscripts. Even writers who have studied all the best writing craft books and taken workshops and followed writers' blogs still don't get the structure. Truth is, a lot of writers believe...