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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Writer's Notebook offers aspiring authors the most enlightening and engaging seminars and essays from some of Tin House's favorite writers. Jim Shepard, Aimee Bender, Steve Almond, Antonya Nelson and others break down specific elements of craft and share insights into the joys and pains of their own writing.
Author: Ralph Fletcher
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2010-08-24
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 0062014935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTap into your inner writer with this book of practical advice by the bestselling author of How Writers Work and the ALA Notable Book Fig Pudding. Writers are just like everyone else—except for one big difference. Most people go through life experiencing daily thoughts and feelings, noticing and observing the world around them. But writers record these thoughts and observations. They react. And they need a special place to record those reactions. Perfect for classrooms, A Writer’s Notebook gives budding writers a place to keep track of all the little things they notice every day. Young writers will love these useful tips for how to use notes and jottings to create stories and poems of their own.
Author: Christopher Beha
Publisher: Tin House Books
Published: 2012-10-23
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1935639463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Writer's Notebook II offers aspiring authors sixteen insightful essays about the craft of writing by Tin House authors and summer workshop faculty members, including Aimee Bender, Steve Almond, Maggie Nelson, Karen Russell, Benjamin Percy, and others. The Writer's Notebook II continues in the tradition of The Writer's Notebook, featuring essays based on craft seminars from the Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop, as well as a variety of craft essays from Tin House magazine contributors and Tin House Books authors. The collection includes essays that not only examine important craft aspects such as humor, suspense, and research but that also explore creating fractured and nonrealist narratives and the role of dream in fiction. An engaging and enlightening read, The Writer's Notebook II is both a toolkit and an inspiration for any writer. The Writer’s Notebook II offers aspiring authors sixteen insightful essays about the craft of writing by Tin House authors and summer workshop faculty members, including Aimee Bender, Steve Almond, Maggie Nelson, Karen Russell, Benjamin Percy, and others.
Author: Howard Junker
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEven award-winning writers begin with notes scrawled on the backs of old bills, on hotel stationery, and in spiral-bound notebooks. These humble beginnings are often awkward, halting, and unliterary. And they are usually kept private. Here sixteen acclaimed contemporary writers open their notebooks to reveal the first stages of their creative process.
Author: Aimee Elizabeth Buckner
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1571104135
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents tips for elementary and middle school teachers on how to use writing notebooks to help students develop skills and habits associated with good writing.
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Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
Published: 2005-09
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780880882439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis beautiful notebook, illustrated by the author's own paintings, provides the perfect opportunity for would-be writers, as well as those seeking a fresh approach to their work, to learn simple techniques that will help them master the basics of the craft. Inspired by the philosophy of Zen Buddhism, the book provides a complete step-by-step mini-course on how to write clearly and powerfully. Abundant lined pages can be used for writing practice.
Author: Jack Gantos
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Published: 2017-08-29
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0374304564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcclaimed author Jack Gantos's guide to becoming the best brilliant writer.
Author: Diana M. Raab
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2018-05-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1611179939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPersonal reflections on the vital role of the notebook in creative writing, from Dorianne Laux, Sue Grafton, John Dufresne, Kyoko Mori, and more. This collection of essays by established professional writers explores how their notebooks serve as their studios and workshops—places to collect, to play, and to make new discoveries with language, passions, and curiosities. For these diverse writers, the journal also serves as an ideal forum to develop their writing voice, whether crafting fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. Some include sample journal entries that have since developed into published pieces. Through their individual approaches to keeping a notebook, the contributors offer valuable advice, personal recollections, and a hearty endorsement of the value of using notebooks to document, develop, and nurture a writer’s creative spark.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1991-10-03
Total Pages: 85
ISBN-13: 9780749304331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 1892, when he was 18, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. Part autobiographical, part confessional, this is a collection of Maugham's observations, confidences, aspirations and arbitrary jottings.
Author: Liz Delton
Publisher:
Published: 2020-03-31
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781734523102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA highly motivating guided journal for writers of all experience-levels to plan their story. Part blank journal, part guided story planner, writers can customize their notes, and use the guided sections to work on plot, characters, and publishing goals. A flexible journal for getting ideas on paper for any type of story.
