Research Writing

La capital del país es tan grande que puede albergar infinidad de historias ocultas en cada calle, en cada casa. Por ello, Héctor de Mauleón se ha dado a la tarea de capturar algunas de ellas, las más impactantes y entrañables, a través del poder de la crónica. El escritor y periodista sabe que la ciudad cambia, se transforma y corremos el riesgo de no reconocernos en ella.

Schreiben heißt für Doris Dörrie, das eigene Leben bewusst wahrzunehmen. Wirklich zu sehen, was vor unseren Augen liegt. Oder wiederzufinden, was wir verloren oder vergessen haben. Es ist Trost, Selbstvergewisserung, Anklage, Feier des Lebens. Doris Dörrie denkt auf diesem einzigartigen Hörbuch über das autobiographische Schreiben nach, gibt Tipps und kreative Anleitungen. Und sie legt gleich selbst los und erzählt hinreißend ehrlich von ihrem eigenen Leben.

In Sometimes the Magic Works, New York Times best-selling author Terry Brooks shares his secrets for creating unusual, memorable fiction. Spanning topics from the importance of daydreaming to the necessity of writing an outline, from the fine art of showing instead of merely telling to creating believable characters who make readers care what happens to them, Brooks draws upon his own experiences, hard lessons learned, and delightful discoveries made.

This writer's guide is packed full of insightful lessons on writing well. Gleaned from years of teaching writing workshops and crafting his own stories, Christopher Hawke teaches these lessons in a clear and concise way. While The Elements of Style and the Chicago Manual of Style are important for any author, this series is geared more toward the heart of writing—what makes a story really work and why.

This comprehensive toolkit is packed with everything you need to bring your murder mystery to life. From start to finish, we guide you through the crime writing process with easy-to-follow prompts, tips, and techniques. Simply follow along with the story you are building as we take you through a novel outline template.

If you are interested in learning about the thrilling world of writing fanfiction, then why don’t you take some time to listen to this book, HowExpert Guide to Writing Fanfiction? If you’re a first-time fanfiction writer, I’ll guide you through the process from start to finish, and soon you’ll be posting your fics for the world to see in no time. You can even take the information you learn from this book and use it in writing other types of literature, such as the short story, novella, or novel.

Interested in marketing your book using social media? Want to gather some tips for launching successful book marketing campaigns? Trying to find out why you are not selling books and gaining followers? If you answered yes to any of these questions then this book is for you... 50 Things to Know About Marketing Your Self-Published Book Using Social Media by Joseph Young offers a simple, yet comprehensive list of things you need to know as an self-published author that will help you save time, money, and your sanity.

True creativity flows continually throughout life, breaking free of form. In Writing from the Inside Out, author and yogi Stephen Lloyd Webber shares his practice of creative writing as a path for self-realization. This book includes many practical writing exercises and connects listeners with esoteric tantric yoga insights, oral traditions, and Zen storytelling modalities. Using the methods in this book, Stephen was able to put together over 20 book-length creative projects in a year.

Décryptez Le Roi Arthur de Michaël Morpurgo avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !Que faut-il retenir du Roi Arthur, le célèbre roman de chevalerie pour la jeunesse ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée.Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche :• Un résumé complet• Une présentation des personnages principaux tels qu'Arthur Pendragon, Merlin et Lancelot• Une analyse des spécificités de l'œuvre : le schéma actantiel, le schéma narratif et le roman de chevalerieUne analyse de référence pour comprendre rapidement le sens de l'œuvre.

The Power of Memoir is a pioneering how-to book that provides a new step-by-step program to use memoir writing as a therapeutic process. By going through these steps, you'll learn how to choose the significant milestones and turning points that make up a coherent story leading to a life-changing epiphany.

Vividly capturing the heady times in the waning months of World War II, Ronald Weber follows the exploits of Allied reporters as they flooded into liberated Paris after four dark years of Nazi occupation. He traces the remarkable adventures of the men and women who lived, worked, and played in the legendary Hôtel Scribe, set in a highly fashionable part of the largely undamaged city. Press jeeps and trailers packed the street outside, while inside the hotel was completely booked with hundreds of correspondents.

Kim Barker is not your typical, impassive foreign correspondent—she is candid, self-deprecating, laugh-out-loud funny. At first an awkward newbie in Afghanistan, she grows into a wisecracking, seasoned reporter with grave concerns about our ability to win hearts and minds in the region. In The Taliban Shuffle, Barker offers an insider’s account of the “forgotten war” in Afghanistan and Pakistan, chronicling the years after America’s initial routing of the Taliban, when we failed to finish the job.

Storytelling is a fundamental part of being human and it has been at the core of human experience since inception. In fact, neuroscientists have found that our brains are hardwired for creating, sharing, and understanding our world through stories. Everyone relies on words to deliver a message. But there is a difference between talking about your day and the masterful art of storytelling. Whether you work in fiction or nonfiction, a marketer, a freelancer, a novelist, a student, or a teacher. Masterful Storytelling is an invaluable resource for writers of all trades.

"Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt," writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt's secret love and enraptured Ernest Hemingway with her courage as they dodged shell fire together.

Journalism is in trouble, but it's not too late to save it--or yourself--by mastering, sharing, and implementing the most critical skills any reporter can have: the basics. Based on extensive research, personal experience, and interviews with reporters, editors, and publishers, 33 Ways Not to Screw Up Your Journalism is the essential companion for journalists and their professors and coaches.

Before you share information, can you separate fact from fiction? Bias Is All Around You: A Handbook for Inspecting Social Media & News Stories is designed to help you authenticate any form of information for possible bias before you use it and/or share it in your network. “A life worth living is a life well led”, as the famous saying goes. We need to take the lead, because inspecting information properly for mental health is one of the biggest challenges of our time.

With chick lit novels popping up on every best seller list, millions of listeners are all thinking the same thing: I could write this stuff. I could write a best seller and never go back to the office again! And here’s the guide that will show you how. Best-selling novelist Sarah Mlynowski and veteran chick lit editor Farrin Jacobs cover every stage of developing and selling your soon-to-be best-selling novel....

Born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora Welty shares details of her upbringing that show us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing as well. Everyday sights, sounds, and objects resonate with the emotions of recollection.

Or maybe, when you’ve got the time and energy, you either waste time and then wonder where the day went… or you face a blank page, unable to type “anything decent.”

Thirty-six real authors give us an in depth look at their successes, their mistakes, and their careers as writers. There is nothing in the world as incredible as creating something, and getting to hear about other people enjoying it. You know that you’ve made a change in someone's life, even if it’s only in a small way. It’s one of the best feelings in the world.