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2019.
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"In his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley supplied aspiring writers with the basic tools and practical advice needed to write a novel in a single year. In this complementary follow up, Mosley guides the reader through the fundamental building blocks of fiction to deliver a master class on the writer's craft. In a series of conversational and instructive chapters, Mosley breaks down the art of fiction to its most...
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2020.
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Kate Messner and Mark Siegel playfully chronicle the process of becoming a writer, from choosing an idea, creating a problem for your character to resolve, and - finally- coming to The End.
How to Write a Story vividly illustrates the idea that the young writer who discovers the power of storytelling finds, at the end, the beginning.
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[2005]
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"From Where You Dream reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual, and tells writers how to achieve the dreamspace necessary for composing honest, inspired fiction. Proposing fiction as the exploration of the human condition, with yearning as its compass, Butler reinterprets the traditional tools of the craft using the dynamics of desire. He offers insights into the nature of voice. He compares fiction to cinema, to be...
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[1987]
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This updated edition of the classic, comprehensive guide to creative writing features new topics and writing prompts, contemporary examples, and more.
A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Janet Burroway's Writing Fiction. This best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for decades it has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn the craft....
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Pub. Date
c2004
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Hundreds of books have been written on the art of writing. Here at last is a book by two professional editors to teach writers the techniques of the editing trade that turn promising manuscripts into published novels and short stories.
In this completely revised and updated second edition, Renni Browne and Dave King teach you, the writer, how to apply the editing techniques they have developed to your own work. Chapters on dialogue, exposition,...
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[2022]
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"They say writing is rewriting. So why does the second part get such short shrift? [This book] will guide you through every step of the novel writing process, from getting started on those first pages to the last tips for making your final draft even tighter and stronger. From lauded writer and teacher Matt Bell, [This book] is encouraging and intensely practical, focusing always on specific rewriting tasks, techniques, and activities for every stage...
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No more excuses! Anyone can write a novel, novelist Mosley advises, and in this book of tips, practical advice, and wisdom, he promises that the writer-in-waiting can finish it in one year. Intended as both inspiration and instruction, the book provides the tools to turn out a first draft painlessly and then revise it into something finer. Mosley tells: how to create a daily writing regimen to fit any writer's needs--and how to stick to it; how to...
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IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 38
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In 1939 New York City, Joe Kavalier, a refugee from Hitler's Prague, joins forces with his Brooklyn-born cousin, Sammy Clay, to create comic-book superheroes inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams
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2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
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Sixteen-year-old Tessa Johnson has never felt like the protagonist in her own life. She's rarely seen herself reflected in the pages of the romance novels she loves. The only place she's a true leading lady is in her own writing--in the swoony love stories she shares only with Caroline, her best friend and #1 devoted reader. When Tessa is accepted into the creative writing program of a prestigious art school, she's excited to finally let her stories...
17) Drawing fairies
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Pub. Date
2020.
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This wonderful full-color drawing book is a treasure trove for anyone who loves fairies. Abound in story books and animation, their delicate form, fluttering wings and magical powers are a source of constant wonder. In this enchanting new book, renowned artist Peter Gray takes readers through step-by-step drawing projects, teaching different drawing techniques and styles. You'll learn: How to create fairy and elf faces, with their large eyes and small,...
18) One smart Cookie
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Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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When Cookie, a dog who can read and write, goes to school, he not only inspires the children there, he also helps avert disaster.
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"One of the biggest problem areas for writers is conveying emotion to the reader in a unique, compelling way. When showing our characters' feelings, we often grab onto the first idea that comes to mind, and our characters end up smiling, shrugging, nodding, and frowning far too much. Need some inspiration to get you beyond the basics? Inside The Emotion Thesaurus, you'll find: emotion entires that list body language, thoughts, and visceral responses...
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Pub. Date
c1998
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"Writing Fiction Step by Step gives you more than 200 exercises that will sharpen your writing skills while helping you develop complete short stories, even novels."--BOOK JACKET. "In this sequel to his very popular Fiction Writer's Workshop, Whiting Award-winning author Josip Novakovich shows you that writing fiction is about making connections - between character and plot, setting and conflict, memory and imagination. You'll make these connections...
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