“The Writer's Workshop” takes an approach to teaching writing that is new only because it is so old. Today, rhetoric and composition typically proceed by ignoring what was done for 2,500 years in Western education. Gregory Roper, on the other hand, helps students learn to write in the way the great writers of the past themselves learned: by carefully imitating masters of the craft, including Cicero, Thomas Aquinas, Charles Dickens, Sojourner...

If you are one of those who love to write, but struggle to do so - this is the book for you! Packed with amazing tips and tricks, to get you unstuck from 'writer's block' and to improve your writing in dozens of little ways, there are tips about all aspects of writing, for both fiction and non-fiction authors. You will love the positive impact that these quick, easy to apply tips have on your writing. Mutiple best selling author, Kim Lambert,...

I know what you're feeling right now... Chances are good, if you clicked on this title, you're confused, frustrated, overwhelmed... maybe even angry. Not because I know something about you personally. Not because I'm spying on you, or I've re-programmed your Alexa or Siri to dictate your conversations to me and keep them on my hard drive. No. I know what you're feeling, because it's the same thing we're all feeling right now. How do I know this? Because...

How do you create a fictional world that readers will want to visit? How do you paint a picture that springs to life on the page? William Bernhardt explains how to use description and setting to enhance your story without slowing the pace. Bernhardt discusses showing without telling, providing descriptive details that inform character, and integrating visuals and action with "stealth description." In his direct, no-nonsense style, Bernhardt explains...

From his best selling series, The Art of World Building, author Randy Ellefson has collected some of his best advice from every chapter in small, bite-sized tips. All three books are represented in the topics covered: Creating Life - analogues, species/races, gods, monsters, word figures, plants, animals, and undead. Creating Places - planets, continents, land features, sovereign powers, settlements, land travel, water travel, space travel, time and...

Have a great idea for a novel, but don't know where to start? Have you started your novel, but got bogged down after only the first few pages and don't know how to go on? Then this book is for you! Chapter One is a beginning writing course. This book can be used in conjunction with the course or instead of it. You can use this book in two ways: the super-easy way by reading the "Basics" and getting right to work, or get a little more in-depth by...

Writing or wanting to someday start writing your memoir? This practical, step-by-step guide will lead you to all stages of writing, structuring, and producing a successful memoir. Use the workbook format to make the process even easier. A must for writing about the most interesting character you know -- YOU. Writing your memoir gives you the chance to brighten your special leaf on the family tree -- to tell the story through your eyes. You can explain...

Anyone who's ever given serious thought to writing will benefit from this boot camp in a book! Sara Connell shares the exact techniques she used to go from unpublished writer to successful author with an agent, book contract, publication in national magazines and a nomination for Elle magazine Book of the Year for her first book, Bringing in Finn. For writers, 21 Ways is like having a personal writing coach, guiding you through the writing and publishing...

The author of On Writing Well presents stories and advice on the writing process from Frank McCourt, Annie Dillard, and many more. For anyone who enjoys reading memoirs-or is thinking about writing one-this collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors: Russell Baker, Jill Ker Conway, Annie Dillard, Ian Frazier, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alfred Kazin, Frank McCourt, Toni Morrison, and Eileen Simpson.

Everybody loves shortcuts. Don't deny it; I know you do. Think of how many times you've been driving somewhere with a buddy, and you hit a traffic jam. How great did it feel when you could say, "Take a right at the next road. I know a shortcut." This is a shortcut for every-day life. If you use a keyboard to type, this book will save you time, lots of time. You may have tried a text expansion app before, and maybe you didn't have much luck, but this...