How to Enjoy Writing
Title | How to Enjoy Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Asimov |
Publisher | Walker & Company |
Total Pages | 163 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780802773036 |
A guide to writing includes discussions of style, humor, genre fiction, editing, promotion, and children's books
The Authentic Swing
Title | The Authentic Swing PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Pressfield |
Publisher | Black Irish Entertainment LLC |
Total Pages | 147 |
Release | 2013-09-24 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 1936891077 |
The Story Behind THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE If you've read his books THE WAR OF ART and TURNING PRO, you know that for thirty years Steven Pressfield (GATES OF FIRE, THE AFGHAN CAMPAIGN etc.) wrote spec novel after spec novel before any publisher took him seriously. How did he finally break through? Ignoring just about every rule of commercial book publishing, Pressfield's "first" novel not only became a major bestseller (over 250,000 copies sold), it was adapted into a feature film directed by Robert Redford and starring Matt Damon, Will Smith, and Charlize Theron. Where did he get the idea? What magical something did THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE have that his previous manuscripts lacked? Why did Pressfield decide to write a novel when he already had a well established screenwriting career? How does writing a publishable novel really work? Taking a page from John Steinbeck's classic JOURNAL OF A NOVEL, Steven Pressfield offers answers for these and scores of other practical writing questions in THE AUTHENTIC SWING.
30 Things I Love about Myself
Title | 30 Things I Love about Myself PDF eBook |
Author | Radhika Sanghani |
Publisher | Thorndike Press Large Print |
Total Pages | 458 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781432898342 |
When Nina Mistry's life hits rock bottom, she decides to change her stars by falling in love...with herself--a hilarious, heartfelt story from outrageously funny novelist Radhika Sanghani. Nina didn't plan to spend her thirtieth birthday in jail, yet here she is in her pajamas, locked in a holding cell. There's no Wi-Fi, no wine, no carbs--and no one to celebrate with. Unfortunately, it gives Nina plenty of time to reflect on how screwed up her life is. She's just broken up with her fiancé, and now has to move back into her childhood home to live with her depressed older brother and their uptight, traditional Indian mother. Her career as a freelance journalist isn't going in the direction she wants, and all her friends are too busy being successful to hang out with her. Just as Nina falls into despair, a book lands in her cell: How to Fix Your Shitty Life by Loving Yourself. It must be destiny. With literally nothing left to lose, Nina makes a life-changing decision to embark on a self-love journey. By her next birthday, she's going to find thirty things she loves about herself.
Writing is Work
Title | Writing is Work PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Roberts Rinehart |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 40 |
Release | 1939 |
Genre | Authorship |
ISBN |
The Successful Author Mindset
Title | The Successful Author Mindset PDF eBook |
Author | Joanna Penn |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 214 |
Release | 2018-12-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781912105410 |
Being a writer is not just about typing. It's also about surviving the roller-coaster of the creative journey. Self-doubt, fear of failure, the need for validation, perfectionism, writer's block, comparisonitis, overwhelm, and much more. This book offers a survival strategy and ways to deal with them all. Large Print edition.
Writing FAST
Title | Writing FAST PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Bollow |
Publisher | Embryo Films |
Total Pages | 219 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0975213903 |
A simple step-by-step process for breaking any writing project large or small into bite-sized chunks and then turning them into the desired finished format at lightning speed. A must-read book for all levels.
Havoc, in Its Third Year
Title | Havoc, in Its Third Year PDF eBook |
Author | Ronan Bennett |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 257 |
Release | 2007-11-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1416583254 |
A penetrating and ambitious historical novel, Havoc, in Its Third Year is an ingenious, often deeply unnerving narrative of seventeenth-century England that speaks directly to the fanaticism and fears of today. The time is the early seventeenth century, as the quarrel between Royalists and Parliamentarians turns toward civil war, and that between Catholics and Protestants leads toward bloody religious tyranny; the place is a town in northern England, set in a grim landscape swept by crop failures, plague and rumors of war, in which rigid Puritans have taken over government and imposed their own rules. At the center of the novel is John Brigge, the Coroner and a Governor of the town, though not by any means as convinced a zealot as his fellow governors have become. Married and deeply in love with Elizabeth, who is pregnant with their first child, he has a guilty secret to hide in his affection for Dorcas, his wife's ward -- a secret which, in the world of religious prejudice and extremism toward which England is moving, can be lethal. Determined to obey the law, rather than prejudice and the need to make an example of an Irishwoman accused of murdering her own infant, Brigge draws upon himself the hostility and suspicion of the powerful men who have been his fellow governors and who now set out to destroy him in the name of morality. Brigge is both sympathetic and deeply vulnerable. He genuinely loves Elizabeth and longs for their child to be born, but he is also deeply attracted to Dorcas; he is, however guardedly, of "the old faith" and does not hesitate to hide a priest; he favors the wretched vagrants who infest the roads, seeking shelter and a bite to eat, and employs one of them on his farm. He insists on finding out the truth about the Irishwoman's baby, despite the fact that everybody has already decided on her guilt. In short, without intending to do so, John Brigge offers himself up as a victim by refusing to cooperate with the political and religious masters of the town or to subordinate his own conscience to their demand for rigid obedience and piety. Even his own clerk Adam, whom he regards as a son, turns against him in the end in a struggle that will almost cost Brigge his life and that sends him out into a cold and dangerous world, having sacrificed everything he once held dear, stripped of his power and authority, but made heroic by his commitment to love, truth and human feelings. Havoc, in Its Third Year is a novel of great power, drama and terror, at once a love story and a superb work of historical fiction. It confirms Ronan Bennett's reputation as a masterful creator.