2,177円 “Make [your] characters want something right awayーeven if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.” ーKurt Vonnegut “‘The cat sat on the mat’ is not the beginning of a story, but ‘the cat sat on the dog’s ...

361円 Why do authors write? How do they go about it? What is good writing?In On Writing, Robert McCrum collects together his questions and reflections on the nature of writing from his Observer newspaper column. In them he explores the sometimes tricky relationship between writing and commerce, looks a...

933円 Professional editor and author Elizabeth Lyon offers aspiring novelists the guidance and instruction they need to write and edit well-crafted and compelling stories that will stand out from the competition and attract the attention of agents and publishers, including: - Stand-out style techniques...

777円 Featuring the work of more than 28 writers from upwards of 20 countries, this collectiontransports us to the frontiers of twenty-first century literature. In these pages, some of the most accomplished writers in world literature–among them Edwidge Danticat, Ha Jin, Cynthia Ozick, Javier Marias, a...

661円 Brimming with over 500 prompts, INSTIGATION: CREATIVE PROMPTS ON THE DARK SIDE is a treasury of twisted tips, strange scenarios and disturbing sparks to help ignite the fuel in your creative furnace. Its aim? To push you into the danger zone of your imagination, by thinking in unconventional way...

1,989円 In this collection of anecdotes, lessons, quotes, and prompts, author and writing teacher Barbara Abercrombie provides a delightfully varied cornucopia of inspiration nuts-and-bolts solutions, hand-holding commiseration, and epiphany-fueling insights from fellow writers, including Nobel and Pulit...

1,274円 “a masterful book by a master storyteller. To think that Elizabeth Ellis' voice could be even more powerful in print than in performance is unimaginable, but here she is in this inspiring and insightful book. She teaches us with humor and generosity, asking that we dig deeper – layer after layer ...

9,285円 What happens when stories meet mobile media? In this cutting-edge collection, contributors explore digital storytelling in ways that look beyond the desktop to consider how stories can be told through mobile, locative, and pervasive technologies. This book offers dynamic insights about the new na...

3,317円 This monograph reports on a longitudinal inquiry into mainland Chinese undergraduates language learning experiences in an English medium university. The inquiry reveals dynamic interaction between agency and contextual conditions underlying the participants strategic learning efforts in a multili...

1,491円 El autor presenta 52 tips, que se concentran en la escritura como un oficio que requiere de una práctica constante. Dicha aplicación es lo que el autor entiende como ejercicio de honestidad. El escritor no nace, sino se hace, y todo aquel que pretenda gozar de las mieles de tan honesto oficio, pr...

2,653円 Acceptable Words offers prayers that correspond with each stage of the writer's work -- from finding inspiration to penning the first words to "offering it to God" at completion. Gary Schmidt and Elizabeth Stickney, experienced writers themselves, introduce each chapter of prayers with pithy past...

1,126円 The ‘Creative Writing Tutor’ scheme provides a lively series of themed booklets that will stimulate your child’s imagination and inspire him or her to write in a more interesting way and to achieve better results. The booklets provide ‘a tutor’ for the child, fun features and stories to read, fol...