Creative Writing

Improv instructor and writer Jorjeana Marie presents the first book to harness the creative power of improvisation exercises to help both aspiring and seasoned authors defeat writer's block and generate new ideas. Suffering from writer's block and inner critics? Having trouble generating ideas...

Throughout his life, Noel Coward the master songwriter, 'derived a considerable amount of private pleasure from writing verse.' Much of it is gathered in this first ever CD collection. From moving war-time encounters to satirical barbs at familiar Coward targets and personal reminiscences, this...

""I'm reading the OED so you don't have to. If you are interested in vocabulary that is both spectacularly useful and beautifully useless, read on..."" So reports Ammon Shea, the tireless, word-obsessed, and more than slightly masochistic author of Reading the OED. The word lover's Mount Everest...

¿Cuándo se considera una novela excelente? ¿Y un personaje inolvidable? ¿Puedes crear un libro que llegue a miles de lectores? ¿Cómo se escribe un superventas? Después de dieciocho años de experiencia, de conseguir casi un millón de libros vendidos y varios best-seller a lo largo de mi vida, quiero compartir contigo mi secreto para que tus obras triunfen. Este libro no trata de cómo escribir una novela, sino de cómo la puedes escribir tú y convertirla en un éxito editorial.

A young boy attempts to transform his aunt’s boring children’s book into an exciting one in this funny, fast-paced adventure perfect for fans of the Book Scavenger series! Books aren’t supposed to be dangerous. Are they? Alex Harmon prefers running over sitting still reading. But when his...

A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler offers a blueprint for a creative life from the perspective of award-winning science-fiction writer and “MacArthur Genius” Octavia E. Butler. It is a collection of ideas about how to look, listen, breathe — how to be in...

Unlock your creativity with an exciting new set of keys—the 9 Enneagram energy types—in an inspiring guide from Russ Hudson, one of the Enneagram’s original developers and most renowned teachers. If you’re interested in what makes you (and others) tick, you’ve probably come across the...

An expert insight into the transformative power of storytelling, together with practical advice on how to make your writing come alive. The way we use language to tell stories reveals a lot about who we are and what matters to us. In Work in Progress, Julia Bell draws on almost thirty years of...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this clarion call to pick up a pen and find yourself from “one of our most astute chroniclers of modern life” (The New York Times Book Review), #1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen shows us how anyone can write, and why everyone should. What really...

A girl, a laptop, and a waddle of penguins. In this witty and genre-defying memoir, a young writer can travel anywhere she wants to finally finish her novel—and ends up on a frozen island at the bottom of the world. Twenty-seven-year-old Nell Stevens was determined to write a novel, but...

It's Time to Lead Your Industry! All of us have a story to tell, and by telling that story we can set ourselves up for success in our field. In Write to Lead, expert ghostwriters Steven Heumann and Zach Cipriano set out to share all the secrets that will allow you to write your book yourself. The power of having a book in your arsenal cannot be overstated, and these two authors take you down the rabbit hole into the world of publishing, memoirs, and thought leaders. Now for the first time you can easily and effectively take your idea from inception all the way through to publication.

An elegant guide to the promise, power, and poetry of verbs, from Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Sarah L. Kaufman “An almost shockingly adroit guide to how to make every word count.” —Benjamin Dreyer, author of the New York Times bestseller Dreyer's English Verbs are the underrated stars...

Award-winning author Alex Temblador discusses one of the most contentious topics in creative writing: crafting a character whose identity is historically marginalized. What is “identity,” and how do unconscious biases and bias blocks impact and influence what we write? What is intersectionality? You’ll learn about identity terms, stereotypes, and tropes, and receive genre-specific advice related to various identities to consider when writing different races and ethnicities, sexual and romantic orientations, gender identities, disabilities, nationalities, and more.

When one opens this audiobook, they step into another world and place, and even on occasions, another time. No matter what you may know about the lower Big Bend or think you know about the lower Big Bend, here are thoughts, maps, and photographs that bring together a heretofore unachieved mosaic of this rugged, lonesome land. In effect, Out There is a work that others simply cannot compare to.

In a classroom in sultry Guangzhou, having never before left the United States nor taught a class on anything, armed only with a beginner's grasp of the language, Brasunas is confronted by 37 ninth graders in uniform. Only his intrinsic curiosity about Chinese culture and about himself drives him on, to keep trying in the tense classroom, to trust his instincts in the frenetic and dishonest street markets, and to make new friends from all walks of life.

Master the romantasy genre with this ultimate guide full of prompts and tips for aspiring authors and seasoned writers alike looking to craft their dream romantasy novel. Ideal for writers at all experience levels, this workbook offers an abundance of helpful tips and a variety of prompts that...

In Don’t Write a Crappy Book! editor and entrepreneur James Ranson unpacks the most common - and toxic - mistakes that first-time nonfiction authors make. Peppered with wisdom from a panel of industry experts, this audiobook debunks the dangerous myths that can torpedo your text and offers clear, practical guidance for writing a book you’re proud of. This is the resource for the aspiring authorpreneur who wants to write and publish a book with minimum hassle and maximum results.

Explains how the 10 sefirot—the channels of divine creative life force—can be used to develop writing and give you the power to grow as a person and a writer Explores each sefira in detail and how it can be used to manifest creative visions through words Provides writing...

Tom Edison (no, not that Tom Edison) is a hopeful janitor who dreams of becoming a scientist - and Dr. Morice is a shy scientist who dreams of making friends. When an accident at the lab sends them back in time to the stone age, Tom and Dr. Morice must work together to face down cavemen, saber-tooth tigers, and other BC hazards, with only one problem: Tom isn't very good at science, and Dr. Morice isn't very good with people.

Are you struggling to write your book? Wondering where or how to start writing or to even work out what to write about? Every writer has had this experience at one time or another but when things start getting in the way of you expressing yourself and crafting your best writing then something needs to be done. Writing a book is a journey that you need to embrace. This book set is full of exercises to help you become the best writer possible and craft more positive writing habits.