Writing with Passion
Author: Tom Romano
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRomano encourages teachers to help students explore their world through language.
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Wounds of Passion
Author: bell hooks
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1999-01-15
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780805057225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSan Francisco Chronicle best-seller. Wounds of Passion is a memoir about writing, love, and sexuality. With her customary boldness and insight, Bell Hooks critically reflects on the impact of birth control and the women's movement on our lives. Resisting the notion that love and writing don't mix, she begins a fifteen-year relationship with a gifted poet and scholar, who inspires and encourages her. Writing the acclaimed book Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism at the age of nineteen, she begins to emerge as a brilliant social critic and public intellectual. Wounds of Passion describes a woman's struggle to devote herself to writing, sharing the difficulties, the triumphs, the pleasures, and the dangers. Eloquent and powerful, this book lets us see the ways one woman writer works to find her own voice while creating a love relationship based on feminist thinking. With courage and wisdom she reveals intimate details and provocative ideas, offering an illuminating vision of a writer's life.
A Passion for Books
Author: Harold Rabinowitz
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0307419665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of sixty classic and contemporary essays, stories, lists, poems, quotations, and cartoons that celebrates the joys of reading, the feeling of spending hours browsing through a bookstore, and the people for whom buying books is a necessity. Booklovers will find themselves in good company within the pages of A Passion for Books, beginning with science-fiction great Ray Bradbury's foreword and throughout contributions like-- Umberto Eco's How to Justify a Private Library, dealing with the question everyone with a sizable library is inevitably asked: "Have you read all these books?"; Gustave Flaubert's Bibliomania, the tale of a book collector so obsessed with owning a book that he is willing to kill to possess it; and Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life, in which she shares her optimistic view on the role of reading and the future of books in the computer age. Interspersed throughout are entertaining lists--Ten Bestselling Books Rejected by Publishers Twenty Times or More, Norman Mailer's Ten Favorite American Novels and many more-- plus select writings on bookstores, book clubs, cartoons about books and a specially prepared "bibliobibliography" of books about books. Whether you consider yourself a bibliomaniac or just someone who enjoys reading, A Passion for Books will provide you with a lifetime's worth of entertaining, informative, and pleasurable reading on your favorite subject--the love of books.
The Passion Paradox
Author: Brad Stulberg
Publisher: Rodale Books
Published: 2019-03-19
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1635653444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe coauthors of the bestselling Peak Performance dive into the fascinating science behind passion, showing how it can lead to a rich and meaningful life while also illuminating the ways in which it is a double-edged sword. Here’s how to cultivate a passion that will take you to great heights—while minimizing the risk of an equally great fall. Common advice is to find and follow your passion. A life of passion is a good life, or so we are told. But it's not that simple. Rarely is passion something that you just stumble upon, and the same drive that fuels breakthroughs—whether they're athletic, scientific, entrepreneurial, or artistic—can be every bit as destructive as it is productive. Yes, passion can be a wonderful gift, but only if you know how to channel it. If you're not careful, passion can become an awful curse, leading to endless seeking, suffering, and burnout. Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness once again team up, this time to demystify passion, showing readers how they can find and cultivate their passion, sustainably harness its power, and avoid its dangers. They ultimately argue that passion and balance--that other virtue touted by our culture--are incompatible, and that to find your passion, you must lose balance. And that's not always a bad thing. They show readers how to develop the right kind of passion, the kind that lets you achieve great things without ruining your life. Swift, compact, and powerful, this thought-provoking book combines captivating stories of extraordinarily passionate individuals with the latest science on the biological and psychological factors that give rise to—and every bit as important, sustain—passion.
Writing the Breakout Novel
Author: Donald Maass
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2002-08-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1599633256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTake your fiction to the next level! Maybe you're a first-time novelist looking for practical guidance. Maybe you've already been published, but your latest effort is stuck in mid-list limbo. Whatever the case may be, author and literary agent Donald Maass can show you how to take your prose to the next level and write a breakout novel - one that rises out of obscurity and hits the best-seller lists. Maass details the elements that all breakout novels share - regardless of genre - then shows you writing techniques that can make your own books stand out and succeed in a crowded marketplace. You'll learn to: • establish a powerful and sweeping sense of time and place • weave subplots into the main action for a complex, engrossing story • create larger-than-life characters that step right off the page • explore universal themes that will interest a broad audience of readers • sustain a high degree of narrative tension from start to finish • develop an inspired premise that sets your novel apart from the competition Then, using examples from the recent works of several best-selling authors - including novelist Anne Perry - Maass illustrates methods for upping the ante in every aspect of your novel writing. You'll capture the eye of an agent, generate publisher interest and lay the foundation for a promising career.
Passion & Purpose
Author: John Coleman
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1422162664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides an overview of the big issues in the business world today, with firsthand accounts from young leaders tasked with tackling these issues head on.
A Passion for Narrative
Author: Jack Hodgins
Publisher: St Martins Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780312110420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers setting, character building, plot, narration, metaphors, and revision, and includes exercises designed to improve writing skills
Passion
Author: Jude Morgan
Publisher: Headline Review
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780755304042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThey were the Romantic generation, famous and infamous, and in their short, extraordinary lives, they left a legacy of glamorous and often shocking legend. In PASSION the interwoven lives and vivid personalities of Byron, Shelley and Keats are explored through the eyes of the women who knew and loved them - scandalously, intensely and sometimes tragically. From the salons of the Whig nobles and the penury and vitality of Grub Street, to the beauty and corruption of Venice and the carrion field of Waterloo, PASSION presents the Romantic generation in a new and dramatic light - actors in a stormy history that unleashed the energies of the modern world.
The True Writer's Life
Author: William Lee Ballard
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 2014-07-28
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1460244184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book has the potential to transform aspiring writers into published authors! Inside every reader is a writer, and inside every writer is a spiritual being, but even deeper than that, every spiritual being has the ability to tap into the mind and heart of God. Where does writing come from? Where do the ideas come from? How can you, as a writer, never worry about where your next idea, book, or blog is going to come from? This book answers those questions with profound insight and wisdom. There is a way to discover an endless vast of ideas and thoughts that can heal the world and change lives. The True Writer’s Life: Discovering the Author and Finisher of Our Faith is more than just discovering that you are a writer. It is discovering the Spirit of writing that dwells within you.
Writing 21st Century Fiction
Author: Donald Maass
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-10-16
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1599634007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCapture the minds, hearts, and imaginations of 21st century readers! Whether you're a commercial storyteller or a literary novelist, whether your goal is to write a best-selling novel or captivate readers with a satisfying, beautifully written story, the key to success is the same: high-impact fiction. Writing 21st Century Fiction will help you write a novel for today's readers and market, filled with rich characters, compelling plots, and resonant themes. Author and literary agent Donald Maass shows you how to: • Create fiction that transcends genre, conjures characters who look and feel more "real" than real people, and shows readers the work around them in new ways. • Infuse every page with an electric current of emotional appeal and micro-tension. • Harness the power of parallels, symbols, metaphors, and more to illuminate your novel in a lasting way. • Develop a personalized method of writing that works for you. With an arsenal of thought-provoking prompts and questions, plus plenty of examples from best-selling titles, Writing 21st Century Fiction will strip away your preconceived notions about writing in today's world and give you the essential tools you need to create fiction that will leave both readers and critics in awe.
