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2 Bestselling Guides Packed With Tips to Help You Brainstorm and Plan Your Best Story From Award-Winning and Internationally Published Writing Mentor K.M. Weiland With over 300 pages of step-by-step guidance, these two individual books have 440+ five star reviews on Amazon and have helped thousands of authors write better books. Can Outlining Help You Write a Better Story? These bestselling guides will help you choose the right type of outline to unleash your creativity, guide you in brainstormi...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2016-02-11 6,49 €

Theme Is What Your Story Is Really About Theme—the mysterious cousin of plot and character. Too often viewed as abstract rather than actionable, theme is frequently misunderstood and left to chance. Some writers even insist theme should not be purposefully implemented. This is unfortunate, because in many ways theme is story. Theme is the heart, the meaning, the point. Nothing that important should be overlooked. Powerful themes are never incidental. They emerge from the conjunction of strong ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2020-10-20 2,49 €

There is a reason why Stephen King is one of the bestselling writers in the world, ever. Described in the Guardian as 'the most remarkable storyteller in modern American literature', Stephen King writes books that draw you in and are impossible to put down . Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time , this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King's advice is groun...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2001-09-01 6,49 €

Schreiben macht Spaß. Eine Ahnung davon bekommt jeder, der Freunden von einem Erlebnis erzählt, dabei die treffenden Worte findet, um seine Empfindung auszudrücken und es genießt, seine Zuhörer zu unterhalten. Etwas schön zu erzählen ist die eine Sache. Sobald Stift und Papier oder ein weißes Dokument mit einem blinkenden Cursor ins Spiel kommen, baut sich für viele eine Barriere auf. Schreiben? Das würde ich auch gerne können. Viele trauen ihren Erlebnissen oder Ideen nicht zu, gut g...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2007-01-01 3,49 €

So wird der Traum vom Schreiben Wirklichkeit Losschreiben, wenn die Seele drückt. Schreiben, wenn die Stimme gerade nichts sagen kann. Schreiben, wenn die eigene Meinung einen Platz haben will. Schreiben, um kostbare Momente festzuhalten und Erinnerungen wachzuküssen ... Schreiben kann ganz einfach sein – und das Leben auf ungeahnte Weise bereichern. Barbara Pachl-Eberhart führt ihre Leserinnen und Leser vom ersten, federleichten Schreibschritt bis hin zur Veröffentlichung eigener Texte. D...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2017-09-18 15,99 €

Are you an academic, author, or blogger or anyone else who wants to make writing a breeze? The Zettelkasten method is the perfect way to harness the power of technology to remember what you read and boost creativity. Invented in the 16th century, and practiced to its fullest extent by a German sociologist who wrote more than seventy books and hundreds of articles, the Zettelkasten method is exploding in popularity. Writers of all types are discovering that digital tools make the method more powe...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2021-05-25 3,49 €

Can you write? If you can, you can grow rich.   This book shows you how and you get $5,000 of author resources when you go to RichAuthors.com and submit your order number. Have you tried all the entrepreneurial tricks only to end up back where you started? Are you passionate about an idea that you want to share with the world? Do you wish you could turn a single book into something more? Bestselling author Alinka Rutkowska started with one book and transformed it into a successful...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2018-10-02 2,49 €

Every story starts with a character who is motivated by a need and has a goal that can resolve it. Whether their objective is to find a life partner, bring a killer to justice, overthrow a cruel regime, or something else, conflict transforms a story premise into something fresh. Physical obstacles, adversaries, moral dilemmas, deep-seated doubts and personal struggles...these not only block a character's external progress, they become a gateway for internal growth. The right conflict will build ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2021-10-11 4,99 €

The PhraseBook for Writing Papers and Research gives you a bank of over 5000 words and phrases to help you write, present and publish in English. Phrases are divided into around 30 main sections, such as Introducing a Study, Arguing For and Against, Reviewing other Work, Summarizing and Conclusions. Writing Help sections give advice on university and research writing, helping you to avoid many common errors in English. Main chapters include Style, Spelling, Punctuation, Grammar, Vocabulary, Numb...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2007-01-01 8,99 €

When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist’s "nose for news" and her ability to tell a compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. With The Data Journalism Handbook, you’ll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and fascinating field. This valuable handbook has attracted scores of contributors (a who’s who of data journalism) since the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation launched...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2012-09-19 4,49 €

Show, don’t tell is probably the single most-important piece of advice given to writers. But many writers struggle to understand this powerful principle or have difficulty applying it to their own work. Even experienced authors sometimes don’t grasp the finer nuances of showing and telling.   In this book, Sandra Gerth draws on her experience as an editor and a best-selling author to show you how to show and tell you when to tell.   Each chapter includes concrete examples and exerc...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2016-10-19 0,99 €

Klappentext und Pitch leichtgemacht Horror vorm Klappentext? Endloses Grübeln über wenige Sätze? Das muss nicht sein. Hier kommt die Lösung: Lernen Sie, wie Sie einen werbewirksamen Klappentext entwerfen und verbessern! Wie Sie die Hollywoodformel für die Rückseite Ihres Buches nutzen. Welche Elemente sich dafür eignen. Wie acht erfolgreiche Selfpublisher und Verlagsleute Klappentexte entwerfen. Warum der Pitch, der eine Satz über Ihr Buch, so wichtig für den Erfolg ist und wie Sie ihn ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2018-06-06 4,99 €

Uncover the Secrets to Creating Characters Readers Will Never Forget Award-winning author K.M. Weiland’s previous book, the acclaimed Creating Character Arcs, showed writers how to identify the five most important types of character arcs and use them to bring your own characters to life with stunning and powerful realism. Now it’s time to put those lessons to use! Building upon the principles you’ve already learned, the Creating Character Arcs Workbook presents a guided approach to choosin...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2017-09-25 4,49 €

2 Bestselling Guides Packed With Tips to Help You Brainstorm and Plan Your Best Story From Award-Winning and Internationally Published Writing Mentor K.M. Weiland With almost 500 pages of step-by-step guidance, these two individual books have 340+ five star reviews on Amazon and have helped thousands of authors write better books. Is Structure the Hidden Foundation of All Successful Stories? These bestselling guides will teach you the secret to creating consistently good stories, show you how to...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2016-05-13 7,49 €

"I loved this book! So helpful!" -- Courtney Milan, New York Times Best Selling author of The Governess Affair "Have you ever wanted to double your daily word counts? Do you feel like you're crawling through your story, struggling for each paragraph? Would you like to get more words every day without increasing the time you spend writing or sacrificing quality? It's not impossible, it's not even that hard. This is the story of how, with a few simple changes, I boosted my daily writing from 2000 ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2012-10-07 4,99 €

There are books which claim to teach you how to write. This book is about the writing life: The business of writing. The day-to-day existence of a professional writer. The ways writers interact with other writers. The things writers do to help themselves out -- and the things they do to trip themselves up. Which is to say: This book is about what it's like to be a writer, right now. And what's it like to be a writer, right now? Well, it's fun. But it's also work. Coffee Shop shows the writing li...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2011-05-11 3,49 €

A concise introduction to writing as an effective means of communication.

Erscheinungsdatum: 2011-01-26 0,49 €

Get inspired...stay inspired.  Write faster...write more!  MASTER LISTS FOR WRITERS makes “show, don’t tell” much easier and helps you figure out your story more quickly. In this book, you’ll find:  • lists of phrases for describing facial expressions, body language, gestures, physical appearance, and emotions  • 175 master plot ideas, including romance, high-stakes, family, and workplace stories  • lists of words for writing action scenes and love scenes&#...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2015-10-25 4,49 €

Get the first draft down quickly! The 90-Day Novel is a day-by-day guide through the process of getting the first draft of your novel onto the page. The 90-Day Novel was workshopped at LA Writers' Lab over three years and has helped hundreds of writers complete their work. Some of Alan Watt’s students have gone on to become bestselling authors and win major literary awards. The 90-Day Novel is structured into three parts. Part One describes the process of getting your story from imagination to...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2010-10-07 9,99 €

Das vorliegende Buch ... behandelt systematisch die Konzeption und den Aufbau von Studienarbeiten und wissenschaftlichen Publikationen. Insbesondere wird das Zitieren und Paraphrasieren gemäß APA-, HARVARD- und MLA-Style an vielen Beispielen erläutert.

Erscheinungsdatum: 2015-03-31 Genre:Nachschlagewerke 2,99 €

"The Strunk & White of academic writing."—Richard Bullock, Wright State University As employers, politicians, parents, and other citizens lament the decline of writing skills among Americans, this little book comes to the rescue. An instant bestseller when it first appeared as a college textbook, "They Say / I Say" gives writers precisely what they need to know in the all-important domain of persuasive writing. Cutting through the clutter of educational diagnoses and nostrums, it goes ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2007-08-17 16,99 €

YOUR MIND MOVES AT LIGHTNING SPEED -- YOUR WRITING SHOULD, TOO. In this dynamic bestseller, author Jeff Bollow walks you step by step through a breakthrough 4-part writing process to write anything (books, novels, screenplays, emails, blogs... even a doctoral thesis) better and faster than ever before. You'll demystify the writing process with a friendly guide and simple steps that take you from idea to polished writing the reader can't put down, at nearly the speed of thought.

Erscheinungsdatum: 2012-01-24 5,49 €

Want to dictate up to 5000 WORDS an hour? Want to do it with 99% ACCURACY from the day you start? As writers, we all know what an incredible tool dictation software can be. It enables us to write faster and avoid the dangers of RSI and a sedentary lifestyle. But many of us give up on dictating when we find we can't get the accuracy we need to be truly productive. This book changes all of that. With almost two decades of using Dragon software under his belt and a wealth of insider knowledge from ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2016-02-19 3,49 €

WHAT IS THE STORY GRID? The Story Grid is a tool developed by editor Shawn Coyne to analyze stories and provide helpful editorial comments. It's like a CT Scan that takes a photo of the global story and tells the editor or writer what is working, what is not, and what must be done to make what works better and fix what's not.  The Story Grid breaks down the component parts of stories to identify the problems. And finding the problems in a story is almost as difficult as the writing of the s...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2015-04-27 11,99 €

Point of view (POV) is one of the most powerful tools in a writer’s kit, but it’s also one of the hardest to understand and master.   In this book, Sandra Gerth draws on her experience as an editor and a best-selling author to teach you how to handle point of view in a way that will make your readers identify with your main character, draw them into the story, and keep them captivated until the very last page.   The book provides concrete examples and exercises that will hone your ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2016-10-19 2,99 €

EDITION 2 : Revised and with new added material, gathered through 13 years of teaching these concepts at writers conferences. ------------- Want to bring characters to life on the page as vividly as fine actors do on the stage or screen? Getting Into Character will give you a whole new way of thinking about your writing. Drawing on the Method Acting theory that theater professionals have used for decades, this in-depth guide explains seven characterization techniques and adapts them for the nove...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2015-04-30 4,49 €

Designed to take you from the moment you first put your pen to paper to pitching and selling your completed screenplay, this is one of the most inspiring books on screenwriting you'll ever read. Practical exercises will teach you the craft of writing for film and television, both mainstream and independent, the art of building your own plots, characters, dialogue and scenes. It gives you the skills you need to succeed and helps you critique your own work, meaning that at every step of the writin...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2014-10-17 3,99 €

Planning, writing and referencing high school, college or university business reports is made easier with this step by step process.  This iBook is written in a easy to read format, and helps students to understand exactly what is required in business reports, by looking at different types of reports, how to analyse the assignment question, how to use brainstorming techniques, what to include in the introduction and body of the report, and how to write conclusions and recommendations. ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2012-08-01 2,49 €

The Essentials of APA Formatting and Style provides an excellent reference to the 6th Edition of the American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual. The Essentials captures all the important style guidelines and contains alerts for common errors. In fact, one chapter is a list of the most common errors made by writers.  This latest edition, published in March 2012, incorporates suggestions from reviewers and students and now includes tables and figures. Numerous examples from s...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2012-07-17 2,99 €

From the author of 1,000 Creative Writing Prompts, this 300 page, 150,000+ word reference tool can serve writers who need characters and need them now!If character development is your problem, this detailed reference tool for any writer is the solution. Imagine if every time you sat down to brainstorm for your stories, scripts and more, you had a notebook full of character ideas ready to spring to life on the page. This time-saving, idea-generating tome can ensure that from protagonist to checko...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2012-03-17 2,99 €

Explore different forms and genres by writing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Discover effective writing concepts and build your skills. Create your own writing projects with fresh ideas. You’ll learn a lot by simply reading these exercises, which impart literary and storytelling devices. Each chapter focuses on a different form or writing concept: freewriting, journaling, memoirs, fiction and storytelling, form poetry and free verse, article and blog writing, characters, and dialogu...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2012-02-15 3,99 €

This book is designed to enable non-native English speakers to write science research for publication in English. It can also be used by English speakers and is a practical, user-friendly book intended as a fast, do-it-yourself guide for those whose English language proficiency is above intermediate. The approach is based on material developed from teaching graduate students at Imperial College London and has been extensively piloted. The book guides the reader through the process of writing sci...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2009-12-18 20,99 €

Punctuate with Perfection will bring you from your current level of punctuation ability to perfection. Would you like to write in a clearer, more authoritative fashion? Do you want to know exactly how to use colons, semicolons, dashes, and hyphens? This book can help you answer all these questions and more. This book is a modern guide which doesn’t get overly technical with jargon or complex explanations. Yet it is detailed and thorough, so you can acquire the confidence of using all the punct...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2017-03-06 0,99 €

There is one sure-fire way of improving your novel… You may know the fundamentals of how to write fiction. You may be more than competent in plot, structure and characters. But if your dialogue is dull it will drag the whole story down. On the other hand, if your dialogue is crisp and full of tension it immediately grabs the reader. And if that reader is an agent or editor, sharp dialogue will give them instant assurance that you know what you're doing as a writer. Writing a bestseller or hot ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2017-01-16 5,99 €

Murder has rules if you want to profit from your crime! Discrning readers expect you to give them what they want and in return they will buy from you again and again. Don't miss this concise rulebook - including the guide to successful cozy mystery writing.

Erscheinungsdatum: 2015-11-16 0,99 €

The 90-Day Screenplay was workshopped at L.A. Writers' Lab over the course of ten years and has helped hundreds of screenwriters complete their work. Many graduates of the Lab have gone on to major careers as screenwriters and producers in TV and film.  The 90-Day Screenplay method of structuring your story is organic, involving a rigorous inquiry into the dilemma besetting your characters. This inside-out approach avoids the distractions that frequently occur when one's focus is placed squ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2014-02-20 7,99 €

First you have to come out with a flow of ideas and decide which ones will work. Then you must give them a tight structure, and then write crisp dialogue which builds in constant laughs. This practical but inspirational book guides new and more experienced writers step by step through the process of each comedy genre. It gives space for your creativity to shine as you gradually build your skills. Beginning with sketches, the basic building blocks of comedy, you’ll find how you can quickly crea...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2014-05-01 3,99 €

Write a Bestselling Thriller: Strategies to Get Your Book Published is a step by step guide to putting together an unputdownable narrative. It takes you on a journey through each component of the thriller, breaking the process down into key factors such as the Hero, the Trigger, the Story, Scenes and Style. The whole of the second part is devoted to the publishing process, while the book features hundreds of pratical exercises. There are diagnostic tests, case studies, practical exercises and Ai...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2012-11-16 3,99 €

Learning how to do APA Referencing for high school, college or university is made easier with the Assignment Angels iBook. General referencing tips are provided for both in-text referencing and for List of References and Bibliographies.  A comprehensive list of books, journal articles, texts, web sites, educational institutional resources (such as referencing material listed on BlackBoard and lecture notes), newspapers, magazines (both online and hard copy), audio visual media, government p...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2012-08-01 2,49 €

“Questo è un libro ottimista, e ha un obiettivo dichiarato: aiutarvi a scrivere in maniera efficace (un’email, una relazione, una tesi o un breve saggio: la tecnica non cambia). Si parte dal Decalogo Diabolico e si arriva ai Sedici Semplici Suggerimenti. Ogni capitolo si chiude con un test o un quiz: una forma blanda di sadomasochismo, che certamente apprezzerete. Scrivo per mestiere dal remoto 1979 – avevo ventidue anni, i capelli neri e l’avverbio facile – e penso di conoscere alcun...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2010-10-05 6,99 €

A Magical Key to Unlock Your Creative Wizard Are you writing a novel, but having trouble getting your first draft written? You’ve heard of “outlining,” but that sounds too rigid for you. You’ve heard of “organic writing,” but that seems a bit squishy to you. Take a look at the wildly popular Snowflake Method—a battle-tested series of ten steps that jump-start your creativity and help you quickly map out your story. All around the world, novelists are using the Snowflake Method righ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2021-11-13 5,49 €

For writers. For bloggers. For teachers. For dreamers. 5,000 Writing Prompts is the must-have resource for novelists, short story writers, screenwriters, poets, creative writing teachers, bloggers, memoir writers, improv actors, and other creators and storytellers. It includes… 150 plot ideas for each of these genres: fantasy, science fiction, mystery, romance, young adult, historical fiction, and general fiction hundreds of other master plots from classic fiction and mythology hundreds of dia...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2019-03-11 6,99 €

Learn How to Make Your First Draft Easy! Award-winning author K.M. Weiland’s previous book, the bestselling Outlining Your Novel, showed writers how to embrace outlines in a way that makes the writing process fun, inspiring, and easy. Now it’s time to put those lessons to use! Building upon the principles you’ve already learned, the Outlining Your Novel Workbook presents a guided approach to getting the bones of your story down on paper, identifying plot holes, and brainstorming exciting n...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2014-11-11 3,99 €

Aspects of the Novel is a unique attempt to examine the novel afresh, rejecting the traditional methods of classification by chronology or subject-matter. 'His is a book to encourage dreaming.' Virginia Woolf Forster pares down the novel to its essential elements as he sees them: story, people, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern and rhythm. He illustrates each aspect with examples from their greatest exponents, not hesitating as he does so to pass controversial judgement on the works of, among oth...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2016-02-04 1,99 €

Sell more books and build your career by kicking these blunders to the curb! Ever wonder why some books shoot to the top of the bestseller lists? And others that you think should, don't? It's usually a matter of mistakes that could have been avoided!  #1 bestselling writing coach James Scott Bell has analyzed thousands of manuscripts over the years, by both new and experienced writers, and noticed certain errors that keep showing up to take readers out of the fictive dream.  Now he's t...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2015-06-25 4,49 €

"This book belongs on every fiction writer's bookshelf. Anyone who has ever had a story to tell and is dying to get it down on paper will find guidance and inspiration in GMC. The presentation is clear, immediate, and relevant to all writers--from novices to seasoned professionals. Experienced author Debra Dixon has done a magnificent job of demystifying the toughest aspect of fiction writing: that of a giving a story shape, form and urgency." -- Susan Wiggs, New York Times bestselling and RITA...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2013-07-15 18,99 €

This book is a step by step illustrated guide to planning and writing dissertations and theses for undergraduate and graduate science students. Topics covered include advice on writing each section of a thesis as well as general discussions on collecting and organizing references, keeping records, presenting data, interacting with a supervisor and avoiding academic misconduct. Recommendations about how to use word processors and other software packages effectively are included, as well as advice...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2014-06-24 22,99 €

Las pautas que necesitas para aprender a escribir mejor. Saber escribir expone con claridad, amenidad y rigor las pautas necesarias para escribir lo que pensamos y decimos. ¿Sabe escribir un informe, una carta, el acta de una reunión o un proyecto? ¿Sabe cómo tomar apuntes, contestar a una pregunta de examen o preparar su currículum? ¿Sabe redactar una carta de reclamación, presentar una instancia, dirigirse a la Administración o componer una invitación? Saber escribir no es un manual d...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2011-11-16 4,99 €

Can't finish your written work? Can't start it? Constantly missing deadlines and opportunities? The 7 Secrets of the Prolific has the solutions you need! In it, author Hillary Rettig shows how fear, scarcity, ambivalence, and other inner obstacles trigger a Disempowerment Cascade that can derail even the most dedicated and experienced writer. How perfectionism plays a more serious role in underproductivity than most writers realize. And how some criticisms and rejections can linger, hidden, for ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2011-11-17 8,99 €

By adopting simple but effective habits that strengthen your writing skills, you will master the craft of writing. All it takes is dedication and self-discipline. Each of the 10 practices presented in this book grow your skills and promote excellence. You'll find inspirational quotes, questions for thought and discussion, and activities peppered throughout. 10 Core Practices for Better Writing is ideal for writing groups, classes, and workshops as well as individual writers who are ready to take...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2013-07-30 2,99 €