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Publisher
Writer's Digest Books
Language
English
Description
Writers who set their work in other times must get their facts straight. This book provides accurate information illuminating the events that framed Colonial American life, from existing under England's dominion to clashing with Native Americans. Enhanced by extensive timelines, photographs, maps and illustrations, the text includes details about: - food, drink, clothing and accessories - marriage, the family and making a living - money, the economy...
Author
Publisher
Domestique, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Kill the Dog is the first book on screenwriting written by an actual working professional screenwriter. Award-winning screenwriter Paul Guyot exposes the lies other screenwriting books have told, and presents authentic, essential instruction and motivation for anyone wanting a career as a professional screenwriter. This book provides all the answers, from what producers and studios actually want, to what makes one screenplay better than another,...
4) Envy
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Language
English
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"When New York publisher Maris Matherly Reed receives a tantalizing manuscript from someone identified only as P.M.E., its blockbuster potential--and perhaps something else--compels her to meet its author. On an eerie, ruined cotton plantation on a remote Georgia island she finds Parker Evans, a man concealing his identity and his past. Maris is drawn into his tale of two young friends and a deadly betrayal...and to Parker himself. But there's something...
Author
Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The book extension of the growing writer's movement and challenge to write 1,000 words a day helps readers and writers discover how to uncover their creative desires and stay motivated and offers advice from over 50 well-known writers.
Author
Publisher
Watson-Guptill
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
"Batman" editor and writer Dennis O'Neil provides instruction on writing comics, discussing story structure, drama, subplots, characterization, script preparation, miniseries and maxiseries, graphic novels, ongoing series, story arcs, the Levitz paradigm, megaseries, adaptations, and continuity.
Author
Language
English
Description
Anne Lamott recounts her personal experiences to reveal her writing techniques and how she overcomes obstacles that interfere with the writing flow. She offers concrete suggestions about character, plot, setting, and other topics of interest to writers. She also offers advice about how to navigate through the dark underbelly feelings of self-doubt, inadequacy, and jealousy that are inevitable parts of any writer's experience.
Publisher
F & W Publications
Pub. Date
1922
Language
English
Description
The most trusted guide to getting published, fully revised and updated Want to get published and paid for your writing? Let Writer's Market, 100th edition guide you through the process. It's the ultimate reference with thousands of publishing opportunities for writers, listings for book publishers, consumer and trade magazines, contests and awards, and literary agents as well as new playwriting and screenwriting sections, along with contact and submission...
14) How not to write a novel: 200 classic mistakes and how to avoid them--a misstep-by-misstep guide
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From the most successful mystery writers in the business, an invaluable guide to crafting mysteries-from character development and plot to procedurals and thrillers-a must-have for every aspiring mystery writer. Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is known for providing unparalleled resources on the craft, art, and business of storytelling, helping writers of all levels improve their skills for nearly a century. Now, this new handbook helps authors navigate...
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Language
English
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"Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry. Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they're both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen...
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