Soigneusement préparé afin d’initier de nouveaux auteurs à l’écriture d’un roman, ce livre s’adresse à ceux et celles qui ne sont pas experts des mots. À travers une méthode simple, vous apprendrez que l’écriture est accessible à tous. Peu importe votre occupation actuelle, vous pouvez vivre, vous aussi, la sérénité et la quiétude par l’écriture. C’est le bon moment, créez une histoire que vous aurez plaisir à inventer, le temps d’un roman.
Date de sortie: 2012-02-24 4,99 €
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...
Date de sortie: 2001-09-01 6,49 €
Avoir une idée de roman. Bâtir un plan. Écrire la première page. Créer un scénario, des personnages. Ménager le suspense. Poser les derniers mots. Rédiger un synopsis. Envoyer votre manuscrit. Convaincre un éditeur… Être publié ! Auteur de trente-deux romans, Bob Mayer connaît bien ce parcours créatif qui, selon lui, n’est pas réservé à quelques surdoués. Il nous livre dans ce guide tous les outils de l’écrivain. Comme le peintre doit maîtriser les règles ...
Date de sortie: 2017-09-07 13,99 €
Ouvrage de référence, ce livre est accessible au néophyte comme au runistre confirmé. Le symbolisme des 24 runes du futhark germanique y est présenté de manière claire et approfondie. Ces lettres sacrées nous font pénétrer au coeur de la pensée nordique ancienne, nous transportent à travers une mythologie nimbée de magie et de chants elfiques, peuplée de dragons, de nains et de géants... Les runes, dont l'étymologie évoque le mystère et le secret chuchoté, sont les signes de l...
Date de sortie: 2012-12-18 17,99 €
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...
Date de sortie: 2016-05-13 7,49 €
Écrire un livre ou un roman est le rêve de bien des auteurs en herbe. Pourtant, il ne suffit pas d avoir une bonne idée de départ pour écrire un livre structuré, fidèle à vos envies et intéressant pour vos lecteurs. Techniques d écriture, astuces pour bien débuter, importance de la relecture et de la correction, retrouvez tous nos conseils d écriture. Les "règles typographiques" indiquées ici sont conformes à celles définies par l'Imprimerie nationale.
Date de sortie: 2019-03-01 Genre:Ouvrages de référence 2,99 €
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...
Date de sortie: 2018-10-02 2,49 €
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 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...
Date de sortie: 2016-02-11 6,49 €
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...
Date de sortie: 2017-09-25 4,49 €
Mémento des gardes du corps est un guide technique rassemblant des connaissances utiles sur le domaine de la protection rapprochée. Entre historique de la profession, présentation des divers équipements, formation à pied et en véhicules, découvrez l’univers des professionnels de la sécurité privée. À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR À la suite de sa carrière militaire dans les forces spéciales, Frédéric Féménias opère une reconversion professionnelle dans la protection rapprochée. Par ai...
Date de sortie: 2021-12-20 Genre:Ouvrages de référence 7,99 €
« J’ai voulu présenter aux jeunes gens un choix tout fait qu’ils liront avec le dessein d’y trouver une suite de réflexions sur l’art d’écrire. Je crois leur offrir ainsi cette rhétorique « française, sensée, juste, naturelle » que demandait Sainte-Beuve. Je n’y mets aucune note, pour laisser aux maîtres, qui voudraient bien accepter ce recueil, toute liberté de commenter ces textes à leur aise. » C.G Contenu : Préface Marmontel (1723-1799) Pascal (1...
Date de sortie: 2018-09-02 Genre:Ouvrages de référence 2,99 €
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...
Date de sortie: 2012-09-19 4,49 €
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...
Date de sortie: 2015-04-27 11,99 €
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...
Date de sortie: 2012-02-15 3,99 €
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 ...
Date de sortie: 2021-10-11 4,99 €
Cet outil de travail administratif et didactique rassemble les éléments indispensables qui guident, orientent et facilitent la tâche aux rédacteurs administratifs ou à tout autre correspondancier. Il aborde les multiples difficultés auxquelles sont confrontés ces derniers dans leurs écrits de tous les jours, notamment les questions de ponctuation, de structuration d'un texte écrit, les formules d'appel et de traitement et en prodiguant des conseils pratiques.
Date de sortie: 2012-05-01 13,99 €
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...
Date de sortie: 2012-03-17 2,99 €
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...
Date de sortie: 2021-05-25 3,49 €
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...
Date de sortie: 2019-03-11 6,99 €
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...
Date de sortie: 2016-10-19 0,99 €
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...
Date de sortie: 2016-02-04 1,99 €
If you’re looking for writing ideas, you’ve come to the right place. Perfect for writers who are feeling uninspired or who simply want to tackle a new writing challenge, 1200 Creative Writing Prompts has something for everyone. Whether you write fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction, you’ll find plenty of fresh ideas inside this book. The fiction prompts cover a range of genres, including literary, mystery, thriller, suspense, science fiction, fantasy, paranormal, horror, romance, histor...
Date de sortie: 2014-01-03 3,99 €
Revised edition October 2014. Sometimes it's not what you say, but what you do. Have you ever parked the company car, the one with the logo on it, in a disable parking spot? What does that communicate about you, or more importantly, your business? Simple Rules for Effective Business Communication isn't just about how to write a letter, it's also about why you might be writing that letter, or why you should be dressing a certain way, or behaving (or not behaving!) in a certain manner, to ensure t...
Date de sortie: 2011-07-05 1,99 €
Write a Novel - and Get It Published is an informative yet creative, user-friendly and straightforward guide to writing good fiction. It covers everything from story arcs and themes to characterisation and language, and offers plenty of practical advice for those facing the dreaded writer's block as well as practical writing exercises for those wanting to refine their skills. Additionally, it gives a full guide to available creative writing courses and plenty of further reading resources. After ...
Date de sortie: 2010-04-30 3,99 €
"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 ...
Date de sortie: 2007-08-17 16,99 €
Cet ouvrage présente des principes de rédaction pour mieux écrire, développer ses habiletés argumentatives, acquérir de bonnes techniques, et travailler avec plaisir et efficacité. Sylvie Jutras expose le principe de penser comme le lecteur à travers toutes les étapes de rédaction. Elle l’applique en traitant la pensée critique, l’art de l’argumentation, la structuration d’un texte scientifique, la lisibilité, la probité intellectuelle et la révision de ses écr...
Date de sortie: 2019-05-01 26,99 €
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...
Date de sortie: 2017-03-06 0,99 €
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...
Date de sortie: 2014-11-11 3,99 €
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...
Date de sortie: 2015-10-25 4,49 €
"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 ...
Date de sortie: 2012-10-07 4,99 €
This book provides professional tips and techniques for those wishing to break into writing for TV whether it's a soap, series drama, or situation comedy. It covers all aspects of script writing such as structure, plotting, characterization and dialogue and is packed with advice on presenting and selling scripts. It also includes a chapter specifically on writing for radio.
Date de sortie: 2016-02-18 3,99 €
LEARN HOW TO WRITE YOUR FIRST NOVEL WITH THIS COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE. This new edition of an acclaimed guide to writing a novel helps you if you are just at the very beginning of your writing journey, showing you how to gain confidence and find inspiration. A classic book that has supported thousands of authors over the years, it contains a wealth of information on how to structure, craft and develop your writing, how to edit and redraft, and how to take the first steps towards publication. Each ch...
Date de sortie: 2015-06-18 3,99 €
Is Structure the Hidden Foundation of All Successful Stories? Why do some stories work and others don’t? The answer is structure. In this IPPY- and NIEA-Award winning guide from the author of the bestselling Outlining Your Novel, you will discover the universal underpinnings that guarantee powerful plot and character arcs. An understanding of proper story and scene structure will help you to not only perfectly time your story’s major events, but will also provide you with an unerring standar...
Date de sortie: 2013-08-20 5,49 €
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 ...
Date de sortie: 2011-11-17 8,99 €
“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...
Date de sortie: 2010-10-05 6,99 €
Get Started in Creative Writing is an indispensible guide to unlocking your creativity, finding your voice and choosing a genre of writing that suits you best, whether fiction or non-fiction, short stories or novels, children's books or travel writing. It features guidelines for do's and don'ts along with suggestions for crafting a distinctive style.With tips from some of the best-known writers of fiction and non-fiction, you will receive loads of helpful advice to enable you get your own work p...
Date de sortie: 2010-04-30 3,99 €
A concise introduction to writing as an effective means of communication.
Date de sortie: 2011-01-26 0,49 €
Fascinating and informative - advice to inspire budding writers as well as entertaining Maeve Binchy fans the world over. 'A motivating, and pleasingly undaunting volume for the would be writer in your life' DAILY MAIL 'The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up' Maeve Binchy THE MAEVE BINCHY WRITERS' CLUB gives a unique insight into how a No. 1 bestselling author writes. Inspired by a course run by t...
Date de sortie: 2008-09-18 3,99 €
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...
Date de sortie: 2021-11-13 5,49 €
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 ...
Date de sortie: 2020-10-20 2,49 €
The Oxford Guide to Plain English offers practical guidelines to help readers make their writing clearer by improving structure, word choice, grammar, punctuation, and layout. This new edition gives expert and up-to-date advice on all aspects of the writing process, from planning the material successfully to writing in the most user-friendly way.
Date de sortie: 2020-02-27 Genre:Ouvrages de référence 11,99 €
Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West's classic examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia illuminates a region that is still a focus of international concern. A magnificent blend of travel journal, cultural commentary, and historical insight, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon probes the troubled history of the Balkans, and the uneasy relationships amongst its ethnic groups. The landscape and the people of Yugoslavia are brilliantly observed as West untangles the tensio...
Date de sortie: 1941-05-15 3,99 €
'The Elements of Style' (1918), by William Strunk, Jr., is an American English writing style guide. It is the best-known, most influential prescriptive treatment of English grammar and usage, and often is required reading and usage in U.S. high school and university composition classes. This edition of 'The Elements of Style' details eight elementary rules of usage, ten elementary principles of composition, "a few matters of form", and a list of commonly misused words and expressions.
Date de sortie: 2017-11-05 0,99 €
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 book explains the relationship between character and plot, and how the perfect melding of the two produces a mesmerizing story. U...
Date de sortie: 2017-08-09 3,49 €
Get all three Fixing Your Revision Problems books in one omnibus! This book contains Fixing Your Character & Point-of-View Problems, Fixing Your Plot & Story Structure Problems, and Fixing Your Setting & Description Problems--PLUS a BONUS workshop: How to Salvage Half-Finished Manuscripts. A strong story has many parts, and when one breaks down, the whole book can fail. Make sure your story is the best it can be to keep your readers hooked. Janice Hardy takes you step-by-step t...
Date de sortie: 2016-08-27 4,99 €
“Writing is structure,” William Goldman said, but too often aspiring writers plunge into their work without grasping this fundamental principle. Story structure is one of the most important concepts for a writer to understand—and ironically, one of the least frequently taught. In this book, New York Times-bestselling author William Bernhardt explains the elements that make stories work, using examples spanning from Gilgamesh to The Hunger Games. In each chapter, he introduces essential con...
Date de sortie: 2017-08-05 2,99 €
Have you ever wanted to write a Fanfic? Do you have an idea for a story that you are dying to write about, but don't know how to start? Have you ever wanted to write a Fanfic but weren't able to finish it? How To Write Mind Blowing FanFiction is an essential guide to help you write your Fanfic. In this Ebook, Author Roslyn Thomas shows you how to take the initial idea and create a story from it. This book has loads of tips on how to structure your story, flesh out y...
Date de sortie: 2016-10-24 1,99 €
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 ...
Date de sortie: 2016-10-19 2,99 €
Acclaim for Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success: “Not into outlining? Then someone did not demonstrate it for you the way Weiland has in her book. If you can make a quick trip grocery list, you can outline your next manuscript to benefit your process, using Weiland’s guide.”—Leslie Hultgren “…this is one of the few writing craft books I have read start to finish, was easy to apply to my writing immediately, and helped me follow through on my first draft.”—F. Colley “M...
Date de sortie: 2013-02-15 4,49 €
Winner, Independent Publishers Book Award Twelve Senses. Dreams. Travels. Relationships. Actions. Spirit. Achievements. Your Life. The IPPY Award–winning Writes of Life begins where your personal experiences and pen intersect—the starting point for great stories that touch others. In this compact book, journey to learn and practice the many ways to turn your experiences into compelling memoirs, short stories, essays, lyrics, poems, fiction, journaling, and articles of all types. Substantiall...
Date de sortie: 2016-05-31 4,49 €