Creative writing and creative writing guides

Alert and streetwise, but tuned into the undercurrent of things, Choi's poetry creates environments at once familiar but dreamlike, marked by a preternatural clarity.

This book critically examines Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the state by assessing its theoretical and empirical value.

A good story can easily be ruined by bad dialogue.

In the past century, more and more Americans have been migrating from rural areas and urban centers to suburban communities.

Digressions and the Human Imagination makes a significant contribution to our anthropological knowledge about human creativity.

This is a compelling look at the current state and future direction of creative writing by a preeminent scholar in the field.

Since films were first produced, adapted works have predominantly borrowed primarily from traditional texts, such as novels and plays.

Michael Andindilile in The Anglophone Literary,Linguistic Continuum: English and Indigenous Languages in African Literary Discourse interrogates Obi Wali,s (1963) prophecy that continued use of former colonial languages in the production of African literature could only lead to ,sterility,, as African literatures can only be written in indigenous African languages.

You've got an idea for the next great screenplay.

"e;This quirky and imaginative book celebrates individuals' potential for creativity and libraries as vital and vibrant community resources.

In this fascinating survey of contemporary screen craft, David Cohen of Script and Variety magazines leads readers down the long and harrowing road every screenplay takes from idea to script to screen.

The insider's guide to writing high-scoring essays on the AP English Language and AP English Literature exams5 Steps to a 5: Writing the AP English Essay 2017 provides strategies for writing a standout essay on the Advanced Placement exams, along with an abundance of essay-writing practice.

Writing Without a Parachute: The Art of Freefall shows both beginning and experienced writers how to get the thinking mind to step aside, so that writing becomes truly creative - a vulnerable and open-hearted engagement with the moment.

What happens when stories meet mobile media?

Scientific Writing in a Second Language investigates and aims to alleviate the barriers to the publication of scientific research articles experienced by scientists who use English as a second language.

Arts Programming for the Anthropocene argues for a role for the arts as an engaged, professional practice in contemporary culture, charting the evolution of arts over the previous half century from a primarily solitary practice involved with its own internal dialogue to one actively seeking a larger discourse.

Creative Writing in the Community is the first book to focus on the practical side of creative writing.

Writing Across Worlds brings together a selection of interviews with major international writers previously featured in the pages of the magazine.

Attention aspiring and working writers alike!

The papers in this volume were given by some of the world’s foremost Jonsonian scholars at a conference at the University of Toronto which marked the 400th anniversary of his birth.

First published in 1977, this book looks at the versatile literary form of dramatic monologue.

Revised and updated throughout, this 10th-anniversary edition of Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught?

This unique text draws on the tools of modern linguistics to help the student acquire an effective understanding of learned, specialized, and scientific vocabulary.

Scholarly engagement with the magazine form has, in the last two decades, produced a substantial amount of valuable research.

Robert De Niro at Work is the first critical study to examine how Robert de Niro, perhaps the finest screen actor of his generation, works with screenplays to imagine, prepare and denote his performance.

Offering a comparative analysis of "e;community-literacy studies,"e; Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics traces common values in diverse accounts of "e;ordinary people going public.

When we enter the temple, we enter heaven (Orthodox idea).

Through extensive interviews, correspondence, and close analysis of their public and personal writing, Roy F.

A complete guide to writing and selling your novel So you want to write a novel?

Part ethnography, part memoir, and part critical reflection on the Anthropocene, this book examines the ways that islands form and inform human experiences of the everyday and the extraordinary.

Bringing together a diverse range of writers, The Science of Story is the first book to ask the question: what can contemporary brain science teach us about the art and craft of creative nonfiction writing?

Write What You Don't Know is a friendly manual for aspiring screenwriters.

Theory has been used widely in the field of second language writing.

In Collected Stories, playwright Donald Margulies explores the vexed emotional and legal question of a writer's right to create art from the biographical material of another person's life--particularly when that other person is also a writer.

Southern Discomfort tells the story of Masey Bumgarner, recently widowed, who returns from her summer vacation to discover that her town, Pineville, North Carolina, has decided to pave a four-lane highway through her front yard .

This book explores the nature-inspired and place-based vlogging activities of five young women who have become global icons in the last five years, and whose digital projects are a form of 'nature life writing' in the Anthropocene.

From a screenwriting perspective, Batty explores the idea that the protagonist's journey is comprised of two individual yet interwoven threads: the physical journey and the emotional journey.

In this revised and updated edition of the StoryCenter's popular guide to digital storytelling, StoryCenter founder Joe Lambert offers budding storytellers the skills and tools they need to craft compelling digital stories.

This book presents multiple cultural and contextual takes on working performances of academic/writer/thinker, both inside and outside the academy.

Being There and the Evolution of a Screenplay provides an insightful look at the drafting of one of Hollywood history's greatest scripts.

Where Drowned Things Live describes the struggles of an untenured professor, Kristin Ginelli, as she tries to counsel a young woman student at her university and get her to reveal who is abusing her.

Part ethnography, part memoir, and part critical reflection on the Anthropocene, this book examines the ways that islands form and inform human experiences of the everyday and the extraordinary.

This writing textbook bridges factual, critical, and expressive modes of writing to help students develop a reflective sense of why and how to write for university, professional, and public audiences.

How to Write is all about writing for publication, it concentrates on advice on how to construct, craft and draft novels across all genres, but the examples and details on what to consider when writing for any audience means it is relevant to writing in all its forms, including books for children and non-fiction.

This fascinating book explores machines as authors of fiction, past, present, and future.

Narrative nonfiction, also known as creative nonfiction or literary nonfiction, is true stories told using literary techniques and creativity.

The essays in New Media/New Methods: The Academic Turn from Literacy to Electracy pose an invention-based approach to new media studies.

This book recounts a personal journey of self-acceptance, focusing on the author's creation and reliance of a persona (Paul D.

Fascinating, wide-ranging, hugely knowledgeable - an indispensable guide and a beguiling education William BoydPacked with insights and advice - just the inspiration to start writing!