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You've just boarded a plane. You've loaded your phone with your favorite podcasts, but before you can pop in your earbuds, disaster strikes: The guy in the next seat starts telling you all about something crazy that happened to him--in great detail. This is the unwelcome storyteller, trying to convince a reluctant audience to care about his story.

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A collection of definitions of standard English worlds as well as English words from another reality.

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In honor of his eightieth birthday, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author reflects on writing and the writing life, sharing his thoughts on such topics as the limits and attractions of nonfiction, the need for work habits, the pitfalls of early success, coping with bad reviews, and his fellow writers, i

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"Creative writing professor Dinty W. Moore prescribes remedies for the most common stumbling blocks novelists and memoirists encounter when embarking on their writing project"--

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More than four dozen basic truths about successful, confident public speaking are explained in accessible, brief chapters by a master of the art.

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Featuring over twenty candid essays from memoirists sharing their experiences and advice, as well as exercises for writing about others in your memoirs and essays, The Truth of Memoir will give you the courage and confidence to write your story--and all of its requisite characters--with truth and grace.

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A collection of interviews with award-winning writers - novelists, poets, playwrights and children's writers. This work discusses each writer's process, both mental and physical: why they write, who they write for, where and how often they write, their recurring themes, their problems and achievements.

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A collection of interviews with award-winning writers - novelists, poets, playwrights, screenplay writers and children's writers. Here, each writer discusses their process, both mental and physical: why they write, whom they write for, where and how often they write, recurring themes, their problems and their achievements.

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The Writer's Compass teaches writers to visualise their story's progress by creating a story map that helps them see all the different components of their story, where these components are going, and, perhaps most importantly, what's missing.

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Give your story its best start!

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Serves as a reference for writers who want to create realistic and distinct characters. This guide includes: over 400 easy-to-reference character listings, typical behaviours and thought processes as well as common reactions to different situations; and sidebars and statistics on a variety of personality types.

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Covers various aspects of copyright and law which affect writers and writing, including advances, agents, contracts, copyright, ideas 'kidnapping', libel, literary estate, rights, royalties and self-publishing as well as potential danger zones and the best safeguards.

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This title offers detailed information and an in-depth examination of story-telling and story structure. The author uses examples from classic and contemporary sources to explore all the key elements of children's storytelling, along with worksheets, exercises and checklists.

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Offers writers the experience and self-awareness they need to create and refine ideas that demand to be transformed into greater works - the kind of compelling, absorbing writing that will have other writers asking "where DO you get those ideas" This title features exercises, text, examples and a new section called "Questions to Consider".

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For anyone aiming to improve their skill as a writer, a revolutionary new approach to establishing robust writing practices inside and outside the classroom.

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Brings together both classic and less well-known essays by major writers, past and present, on the vocation and craft of writing.

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Brings together both classic and less well-known essays by major writers, past and present, on the vocation and craft of writing.

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