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Suitable for those who write or wants to write, this title teaches a Zen-like method that can take you straight to the source of creative power, to the mind that is 'raw, full of energy, alive and hungry'. It is packed with advice on: how to find time to write; how to discover your personal style; and, how to overcome writer's block.

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Transform Your Passion for Writing into a Career!

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Haven's breakthrough approach to creative writing uses storytelling techniques to enhance the creative writing process. This practical guide offers directions for 38 writing exercises that will show students how to create powerful and dynamic fiction.

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Filled with magazine article examplesincluding front-of-the-book pieces, roundups, how-tos, profiles, and more--and the voices of writers who make a full-time job out of freelancing, this book is your roadmap to building a writing career and earning more assignments.

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Concentrating on the features and challenges of the short story, contributors from Amiri Baraka to Richard Ford and Jayne Anne Phillips to Janette Turner Hospital discuss their own writing, the writing of others, the short story form, gender, politics, and other issues concerning the writing of short fiction.

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Write It Short, Sell It Now. Short stories and personal essays have never been hotter--or more crucial for a successful writing career. Earning bylines in magazines and literary journals is a terrific way to get noticed and earn future opportunities in both short- and long-form writing.

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Although psychology is steeped in writing, as a discipline it has developed little explicit understanding of writing. This is the first book to examine writing (and the teaching of writing) in psychology from the standpoint of composition studies, the scholarly field that specializes in the study and teaching of writing.

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Discover the secrets to crafting an unforgettable mystery!

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Garthine Walker examines how theory has contributed, both explicitly and implicitly, to the writing of early modern history.

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This book answers every question a doctoral graduate new to publishing could have about writing for a conference, from "Why would I want to publish at a conference"

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This book answers every question a doctoral graduate new to publishing could have about writing for a conference, from "Why would I want to publish at a conference"

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As engagement becomes a trendy academic buzzword, we need sustained examinations of what this might mean in practice. This book investigates and models what writing studies scholars have found, both positive and negative, as they use writing to engage with and, ideally, better the communities in which they work

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In magazines, non-fiction offers many opportunities for the freelance writer. This book discusses surveying the field, ideas, research, style and structure, selling work, interviewing, supplying pictures and problem solving. It includes a section on electronic aids for the magazine writer.

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A practical guide to the process of writing a radio play from first draft to recording studio with advice from radio producers and sound engineers.

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All active researchers devote much of their energies to documenting their results in journal papers, and all would-be researchers can expect to do so. This comprehensive guide to writing journal papers will be indispensable to students and professional researchers across a range of disciplines, as well as to engineers, members of industry.

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A new handbook to help beginners kickstart their writing by prize-winning author and long-time writing teacher, Kate Grenville

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(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

Teaches writers how to open up memory, access emotion and discover compelling material; shape scenes from experience, as life events become plot lines; and populate stories with the fascinating, silly, and maddening "characters" that surround them.

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Writing Picture Books Revised and Expanded Edition builds off its predecessor's reputation as the go-to resource for any writer just beginning to concept a picture book to writers who have published several books for children and are looking to take their work to another level.

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The key to excellent, compelling fiction lies in its characters: the unforgettable, vivid, chatty, bold, wild, foolish protagonists, antagonists, and secondary characters that populate the world of your creation. Understanding and effectively wielding point of view allows the writer to create a powerful, sensory experience.

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A practical guide to the craft, the personal challenges, and ethical dilemmas of writing your true stories.