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Would you like to learn about screenwriting? If so, Screenwriting 101 may be the all-in-one audiobook you have been searching for. Discover how to: write a compelling story, overcome writer’s block, protect your work, market & sell your script, and get an agent.

Long before the rise of mega-corporations like Wal-Mart and Microsoft, Standard Oil controlled the oil industry with a monopolistic force unprecedented in American business history. Undaunted by the ruthless power of its owner, John D. Rockefeller, a fearless and ambitious reporter named Ida Minerva Tarbell confronted the company known simply as "The Trust".

Whether you’re a beginner with big ideas or a seasoned artist ready to publish your first graphic novel, Ink & Impact is your all-in-one roadmap to creating powerful, professional-level comics and manga—your way.

Learn how to write a screenplay today the easiest way! An increasing number of people have taken to script writing as a way of breaking into the movies. Unfortunately, there is also widespread misunderstanding as to exactly what a screenplay is and how it differs from other types of written work. This audiobook attempts to help young writers become scriptwriters by explaining what a screenplay is and how to write them so that they can avoid many of the common pitfalls that befall many inexperienced writers, and provide them with some of the tools that they will need to succeed.

Kim Scaravelli has been writing online content for over 20 years. Over that time, she has helped hundreds of organizations build authority, communicate effectively, and develop meaningful connections with people. In this practical guide, she walks you through the process of writing, from setting up your writing space to researching, crafting first drafts, editing, and mastering the long game. Because success isn't about being able to write one piece of content. It's about being able to create content whenever you need to and enjoying the feeling of making words work.

All fiction is character-driven, according to William Bernhardt, despite what you might have heard elsewhere. If your characters don’t interest readers, even the most exciting plots will fail. “Action is character,” Aristotle wrote, but what does that mean, and how can you use that fundamental principle to create dynamic fiction that will captivate readers? This audiobook explains the relationship between character and plot, and how the perfect melding of the two produces a mesmerizing story.

This is a self-publish, guidebook to help you along your journey to becoming a first-time publisher on Amazon KDP and other platforms. This could be your path to financial freedom and books will be around forever. You will get the opportunity to create generational wealth for your family and loved ones in perpetuity. As royalties is an asset that you can pass down to your children forever. I don’t just want you as a listener to think to yourself and say this is your dream, however, you are not taking the necessary steps and initiative to get your dreams to become reality.

Franck Thilliez livre ses secrets pour faire frissonner le public, grâce à la lecture malicieuse de Sylvain Agaësse. Le maître du thriller français nous ouvre les portes fascinantes de son imaginaire : traque des idées, construction des personnages, quête de l'angoisse, rien n'est laissé au hasard. Dans ce livre audio, Franck Thilliez raconte comment il transforme ses cauchemars en récits diaboliques. De quoi surprendre et captiver encore ses lecteurs qui remonteront les mécanismes implacables de la fabrique de la peur jusqu'au plaisir.

Le maître du suspense dévoile ses secrets d'écriture, à travers la voix enveloppante de François Hatt ! Depuis Nymphéas noirs Michel Bussi enchaîne les best-sellers. Dans un récit captivant, cet " inventeur d'histoires " nous invite au cœur des mystères de l'écriture, depuis les premières intrigues imaginées durant l'enfance en Normandie jusqu'à l'écriture du premier livre et l'euphorie des premiers succès. Un voyage littéraire dans les secrets d'écriture de l'auteur avec les quarante " commandements " du suspense et du twist.

Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, is universally acclaimed as “one of our best personal essayists” ( Dallas Morning News). Here, combining more than 40 years of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, he brings us this highly anticipated nuts-and-bolts guide to writing literary nonfiction. A phenomenal master class shaped by Lopate’s informative, accessible tone, and immense gift for storytelling.

In the 17 wide-ranging essays collected for the first time in Love and Other Ways of Dying, he brings his full literary powers to bear, pondering happiness and grief, memory and the redemptive power of human connection. In the remote Ukranian countryside, Paterniti picks apples (and faces mortality) with a real-life giant; in Nanjing, China, he confronts a distraught jumper on a suicide bridge.

Erin Arvedlund, the financial reporter who questioned the amazing returns of Bernie Madoff's hedge funds way back in 2001, traces the life of the infamous swindler and addresses the tough questions surrounding the collapse of his Ponzi scheme.

“Who else wants to write a book this weekend?” It’s easier than you think! Best-selling author Vic Johnson actually wrote this book in a weekend to prove how easy it is. And he gives you step-by-step detail of everything he did, including the resources he uses to turn out content-rich books in no time at all. How to Write a Book This Weekend is a perfect strategy for first-time book writers who have been discouraged by the thought of pounding out words for months at a time.

Do you want to learn how you can make money on Amazon by selling ghostwritten books, your self-written books, or any kind of low-content/activity book? With the help of this book, you will learn everything about producing, publishing, and marketing books on Amazon that can generate income for you every month for a long time to come. It includes the same strategies I use myself, and that has helped me to make over $100,000 in royalties from the books I've published on Amazon.

It's so easy to focus on writing and marketing because that’s what builds a writing career. But if you don’t plan on what will happen to your books after your death, everything you’re doing right now won’t matter. This book will help you get your affairs in order and create an estate plan so that you can create a legacy that will continue making money for your family long after you're gone. From passwords to bank accounts to book retailer accounts, this book will hold your hand through the process of getting your ducks in a row.

This isn't a typical book on writing essays. First, it's for college students, graduate students, and even high school students—good writing is good writing; all that changes is the length and complexity of what you write. But the plan stays the same. Second, I'm not going to tell you any cute stories about writing. I'm not going to tell you the standard information about writing. Nor am I going to give you a simple formula for writing an essay. They don't work, and in the long run, they won't help you. What I am going to do is give you a plan for how you should approach writing essays.

Journalists hate the term fake news, but there's a troubling reality: spin doctors routinely try to dupe them into reporting misleading and distorted stories. Award-winning journalist Cecil Rosner insists there is something we can do about this. We can pressure news organizations to stop blindly regurgitating the firehose of press releases and focus instead on determining what is actually true. Rosner empowers listeners by sharing his techniques for detecting misinformation and disinformation.

Les tropes sont partout : sur les réseaux sociaux, nichés au cœur des intrigues... Ils nourrissent les attentes des lecteurs et guident les auteurs. Mais que sont les tropes, précisément ? À quoi servent-ils vraiment ? Et surtout, comment manier ces « clichés » sans en devenir un soi-même ?

This is the original "Little Book," without add ons by later writers. This is a treasure to writers because it "omit(s)" needless words" and subject matter Professor Strunk did not believe was core to better writing. The brevity encourages relistening to deepen one's knowledge of the subject, the point made by Professor Strunk to his students: "the knowledge comes from rereading" or in our case, relistening. This unabridged version has 25 tracks: 1. Preface. 2. Introduction.

Be more effective on the job! Communicate like a native speaker of English! American English speakers use many phrases and expressions on the job. If you don’t know these expressions, you’re left out of the conversation. You’re out of it...and nothing makes you feel so much like a foreigner. Speak Business English Like an American will help you speak Business English like an American - quickly and confidently. You’ll hear the idioms & expressions used in everyday speech in American workplaces.