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Keeping a journal is easy. Keeping a life-altering, soul-enlightening journal, however, is not. At its best, journaling can be among the most transformative of experiences, but you can only get there by learning how to express yourself fully and openly. Enter Samara O'Shea.
O'Shea charmed readers with her elegant and witty For the Love of Letters. Now, in Note to Self, she's back to guide us through the fun, effective, and revelatory process of...
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Twelve lively, in-depth chapters reveal how following our untrained impulses - our creative unconscious or "Crazy Child" - gives an authentic grasp on writing stories, poems, plays, and essays. Let the Crazy Child Write! introduces exercises that explicitly tap this knowledge and also presents guidelines on how to give, and receive, constructive feedback. This is the first how-to-write text to give full credit to the creative unconscious since Becoming...
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English
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Robert Olen Butler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University - his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream, Butler reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual, and tells writers how to achieve the dreamspace necessary for composing honest, inspired fiction. Proposing that fiction is the exploration of the human condition with yearning as its compass, Butler...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP 100 NONFICTION BOOKS OF ALL TIME
Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King's critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work.
"Long live the King" hailed Entertainment Weekly...
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP 100 NONFICTION BOOKS OF ALL TIME
Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King's critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work.
"Long live the King" hailed Entertainment Weekly...
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Transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
2022.
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Deutsch
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Vor dem Hintergrund der digitalen Transformation und computergenerierter Literatur stellt sich die Frage: Findet sich im literarischen Text etwas, das über den reinen Akt der kombinatorischen Verknüpfung von sprachlichem Material nach bestimmten Regeln hinausgeht? Jan Hase nähert sich dieser Frage mit einer Ethos-Theorie des literarischen Schreibens, die entlang eines Lektürewegs von Roland Barthes über den Orpheus-Mythos und die griechischen...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Sam, a shy but creative mouse who lives in a library, decides to write and illustrate his own stories which he places on the shelves with the other library books but when children find the tales, they all want to meet the author.
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Covering the entire process from story building to manuscript preparation and marketing, Jerry Cleaver shows the novice and experienced writer how to start writing and how to get immediate results.
Readers will find everything they need to know about managing time, finding an idea, getting the first word down on the page, staying unblocked, shaping ideas into compelling stories, and submitting their work to agents and publishers.
Immediate Fiction...
11) Basket case
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2002
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A rollicking and hilarious novel from the bestselling author of Squeeze Me and “Florida’s most entertainingly indignant social critic” (New York Times Book Review).
Jack Tagger’s years in exile at the obituaries desk of a South Florida daily haven’t dulled his investigative reporter’s nose for a good story. When Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy
12) Acrostic poems
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Presents an overview of acrostic poems, including the form's history, elements, and traits and how poets use acrostic poems to express ideas. Conveying meaning with words through phrases, rhythm, and line structure--that's a poem. With a celebratory tone, young learners are introduced to different forms of poetry through the delightful Poetry Party series. Each book focuses on a specific type of poetry, describing its elements and traits in an engaging...
13) Concrete poems
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Presents an overview of concrete poems, including the form's history, elements, and traits and how poets use concrete poems to express ideas. Conveying meaning with words through phrases, rhythm, and line structure--that's a poem. With a celebratory tone, young learners are introduced to different forms of poetry through the delightful Poetry Party series. Each book focuses on a specific type of poetry, describing its elements and traits in an engaging...
14) Any questions?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Provides children with some inspiring answers in a fictional encounter between an author and some very curious children, who collaborate on writing and illustrating a story.
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English
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Writing is not just for adults. Op-ed pieces are a great way for kids to express their opinions about issues important to them, while also building crucial writing skills. Tip sidebars and detailed, step-by-step instructions help students develop concrete goals to go from caring about a cause to writing persuasively about it.
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A series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, sherlock Holmes to Cormac McCarthy. Throughout, Chabon energetically argues for a return to the thrilling, chilling origins of storytelling, rejecting the false walls around "serious" literature in favor of a wide-ranging affection.
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English
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Walter Snow is doomed. He stares at the blank pages in his typewriter, hoping for the spark that will finally ignite his ambition to write the Great Armenian Novel.
And then he meets Clyde Potts. She is beautiful, intelligent, charming, perhaps psychic, and, for better or worse, very possibly unbalanced. With Potts's joie de vivre and her certified-insane partner in crime, Fox Harris, Snow is caught up in a series of pranks against corporate sprawl...
18) So you want to publish your own book & e-book: a step-by-step guide to fun & profitable publishing
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English
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Publishing two books, selling film rights, and being in TIME magazine- these kind of seem like pipe dreams. However, this is actually the life story of Beth Reekles, the famous 17-year-old writer. Being a successful writer at a young age is no longer a pipe dream, and this book can help make it your reality.
With a bit of humor and a conversationally quirky tone, this book shows the young adult audience how to write a killer query letter and book...
20) A squiggly story
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
A boy who wants to write a story like his big sister learns that every story begins with a single letter or word.