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Ways
with Words: a BBC Guide to Creative Writing
Jennifer Bailey, Norma Clarke
Intended for anyone who wants to write prose,
poetry or drama, for pleasure or profit, this pack contains many
practical exercises, supported by interviews and examples from leading
writers, creative-writing tutors, agents and publishers. Topics
include getting started, the writing process, the writer at work,
different kinds of writing, thinking about publication, and submitting
a manuscript. |
I'd
Rather Be Writing
Marcia Golub
Blending sympathetic understanding with hard-earned
advice, the author offers a balanced approach to getting more satisfaction
from writing. She explores the typical dilemmas: how to balance
other duties with unbroken writing time, note-making, seeing ideas
through, and coping with rejection. |
 A
Writers Guide to Overcoming Rejection
Edward Baker
Teaches the reader how to sell themselves and
their book in order to get in print. Using sales techniques taken
from other industries, it demonstrates how the writer can target
and market their book in the competitive business of publishing. |
Write
Your Heart Out
Rebecca McClanahan
This book explores how to turn personal experiences,
ideas and emotions into stories, essays, poems and memoirs. The
author teaches readers to mine and shape personal material about
important people, events and emotions in their lives. |
 The
New Authors' Handbook
David Bolt
A wealth of good sense and up-to-date, useful
information. |
 Writing
and Personality
John K. Ditiberio, George H. Jensen
Finding your voice, your style, your way. |
 The
Everything Creative Writing Book
Carol Whiteley
All you need to know to write a novel, play,
short story, screenplay, poem or article. |
 Writing
from Start to Finish
Kate Grenville
A handbook to help beginners kickstart their
writing. Written by a prize-winning author and long-time writing
teacher. Whether you are writing a short story, essay, review, or
report, this guide provides the hands-on direction you need to improve
your writing techniques and ability. Using a six-step approach,
the book covers brainstorming ideas, choosing a topic, outlining,
drafting, revising, and editing. The tone is casual, the advice
is straightforward, and the whole approach makes writing a skill
that anyone can learn.
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 How
to Start a Home-Based Writing Business
Lucy Parker
This authoritative handbook will tell you how
to: decide if you would make a good freelance writer; start your
business with a minumum investment; find jobs and clients in your
community or through the internet; market and sell your services;
balance work life and home life; establish a computer system...and
more!
£10.42 - save 9% |
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 The
Writer's Block:
786 Ideas to Jump-start Your Imagination
Jason Rekulak
This is literally a block, a three-inch cube, designed
to be dipped into at random. There are 786 ideas (one per page),
and some of them are bound to send you dashing to your keyboard.
Just open it at any page and you'll find a word, idea, exercise
or photograph that will jump-start your imagination. It's chock-full
of great advice from legendary and contemporary writers. A great
way of bringing your creativity to the surface in a light-hearted
fashion. You'll soon rediscover your lost inspiration!
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