The Writer's Notebook II
The Writer's Notebook II

Author: Christopher Beha

Publisher: Tin House Books

Published: 2012-10-23

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1935639463

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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. 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.

The Writer's Notebook
The Writer's Notebook

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13:

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The 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.

A Writer's Notebook
A Writer's Notebook

Author: Ralph Fletcher

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2010-08-24

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 0062014935

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Tap 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.

The Essential Writer's Notebook
The Essential Writer's Notebook

Author:

Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

Published: 2005-09

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780880882439

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This 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.

Notebook Know-how
Notebook Know-how

Author: Aimee Elizabeth Buckner

Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1571104135

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Presents tips for elementary and middle school teachers on how to use writing notebooks to help students develop skills and habits associated with good writing.

The Writer's Notebook
The Writer's Notebook

Author: Howard Junker

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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Even 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.

Writing Radar
Writing Radar

Author: Jack Gantos

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)

Published: 2017-08-29

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0374304564

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Acclaimed author Jack Gantos's guide to becoming the best brilliant writer.

Writers and Their Notebooks
Writers and Their Notebooks

Author: Diana M. Raab

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1611179939

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Personal 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.

Creative Writer's Notebook
Creative Writer's Notebook

Author: John Gillard

Publisher:

Published: 2018-03

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780857625816

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Creative Writer's Notebook is a guided journal for aspiring authors in need of a creative workout. It contains 70 writing exercises for inspiration and stimulation, tackling different aspects of action writing, from perfecting dialogue and characterisation to experimenting with structure and language. Includes profiles of 20 great modern writers, with analysis of what makes their style unique and what lessons you can take from their work.