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Paperback. Condition: Good. This book examines the potential of creative writing as a therapeutic tool. Illustrating a wide range of approaches, the contributors provide an introduction to thinking about creative writing in a personal development context with suggestions for further reading, and look at the potential evolution of therapeutic creative writing in the future.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Plenty of writing advice out there is focused on the nuts and bolts of writing - how to do it, when, how to market it and where, etc. But this is not that sort of book. If you want to learn to write more compellingly, with more skill and expertise, you can do it, easily. The really tricky bit, though, is understanding why. Uncover this why for yourself and you get in touch with the inexhaustible engine of your creativity. The human core of why we bother to create at all. Get to know this root well and you will not need gimmicky books full of writing prompts to blast away your writer's block. You will not need inspiration or 31 awesome tips and tricks. When you were a baby, something made you open your mouth and speak. Understand the thing that inspired you to do this, and you're more than half way to being the creative, productive and generative human being you were destined to be. When you were a tiny baby, your head was full of mostly nothing and the world was new and unknown. You barely had the skill to move yourself around the environment, and you most definitely lacked the skill to do what humans are most know for - communication. As you grew and developed, though, something strange started to happen. The people around you, the things in your world - you began to understand that they could be reached. That in your infant isolation there was still a way to reach out and touch someone else's experience. You saw all around you evidence of this magical skill that you had yet to develop: language. Since before we were old enough to understand it, we've tried to master this almost god-like ability to shape symbols and concepts, reach into the mind of someone else and affect their hearts and minds, to bring about changes in the world, to connect and understand and share with another human being. At the root of all creative expression is a deep, inborn and very human desire to be heard and understood. For the writers among us, the urge to communicate more clearly, more beautifully, and in new ways never really left us. With the right words, new worlds can be created, new ideas can be incubated and grown, great heights and depths can be reached. Every brilliant idea had its first home in the written or spoken word, and if you are a writer or aspire to be one, you most likely understand this power better than anything. Ask yourself this simple question: why write at all? Once you've managed to answer this question for yourself you'll have found something that will be incredibly valuable to your writing career, wherever it takes you: your purpose. Tapping into the deep roots of why you are compelled to write at all is a brilliant way to unlock your true motivations and your ultimate reason for that urge to take what's in your head and put it out there in the world. Remember, all change and growth begins with the creativity of imagining something different. It's quite likely that opening the door on your innate creativity will invite all sorts of new skills and insights into your life, not just the verbal ones. Grab your copy TODAY. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. Get your creative juices flowing with this write-in journal, featuring 321 prompts to inspire you. Whether your interest is crime or memoir, romance or science fiction, here are hundreds of ideas, story starters and one-liners to help you dive into the creative world of writing. Open to any page and get started on these fun, entertaining and thought-provoking exercises, which will help improve your writing skills, overcome writer's block or inspire that novel you've always been meaning to pen. Explore your memories, experiences, feelings, observations and imagination to create plotlines, characters, settings, dialogue, moods and more - from the realistic to the fantastical. Dip into different genres and try out crime, reportage, romance, adventure, humor, nature and historical writing. You may find that a character you invent starts to take on a life and story of their own, or a scene can be linked to other circumstances to build a plot line, or a memory is a springboard to an autobiography or family genealogical history. Whether you want to write the next bestseller or just put pen to paper, these writing prompts will stimulate your creativity and spark your storytelling.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Your guide to positioning yourself for a career as a creative writer. Based on a lifetime of struggling to make it as a creative writer, Creative Writing Career: Becoming a Writer of Movies, Video Games, and Books is a guide for aspiring writers to help them position themselves in an extremely competitive field. The book includes information on the writing process and ways to improve one's craft, but mostly focuses on how to get discovered and where to concentrate energy in the meantime. The content of the book is supplemented by writer interviews, featuring some incredibly gifted people who share the wisdom they have gained. With writing, as with most aspects of life, I have chosen to rely on those with demonstrated wisdom to move ahead. This book presents that wisdom for the reader to do the same. Includes interviews with the following: - Stephan Bugaj (Pixar and beyond) - Jerri Bell (O-Dark-Thirty Managing Editor) - Anthony Burch (Borderlands 2) - Kelly Ann Jacobson (Cairo in White) - Joshua Rubin (Assassins Creed 2) - Tomiko Breland (Editor with Zharmae) - Allen Warner (Ninja Boy) - Joyce Lee (Paper Words) - Will Wight (the Traveler's Gate trilogy) And many more. Felchle, Norman (illustrator).…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Experience the power and the promise of working in today' most exciting literary form: Creative Nonfiction Writing Creative Nonfictionpresents more than thirty essays examining every key element of the craft, from researching ideas and structuring the story, to reportage and personal reflection. You'll learn from some of today's top creative nonfiction writers, including: .Terry Tempest Williams- Analyze your motivation for writing, its value, and its strength. .Alan Cheuse- Discover how interesting, compelling essays can be drawn from every corner of your life and the world in which you live. .Phillip Lopate- Build your narrator-yourself-into a fully fleshed-out character, giving your readers a clearer, more compelling idea of who is speaking and why they should listen. .Robin Hemley- Develop a narrative strategy for structuring your story and making it cohesive. .Carolyn Forche- Master the journalistic ethics of creative nonfiction. .Dinty W. Moore- Use satire, exaggeration, juxtaposition, and other forms of humor in creative nonfiction. .Philip Gerard- Understand the narrative stance-why and how an author should, or should not, enter into the story. Through insightful prompts and exercises, these contributors help make the challenge of writing creative nonfiction-whether biography, true-life adventure, memoir, or narrative history-a welcome, rewarding endeavor. You'll also find an exciting, creative nonfiction "reader" comprising the final third of the book, featuring pieces from Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, Beverly Lowry, Phillip Lopate, and more-selections so extraordinary, they will teach, delight, inspire, and entertain you for years to come.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Experience the power and the promise of working in today' most exciting literary form: Creative Nonfiction Writing Creative Nonfictionpresents more than thirty essays examining every key element of the craft, from researching ideas and structuring the story, to reportage and personal reflection. You'll learn from some of today's top creative nonfiction writers, including: .Terry Tempest Williams- Analyze your motivation for writing, its value, and its strength. .Alan Cheuse- Discover how interesting, compelling essays can be drawn from every corner of your life and the world in which you live. .Phillip Lopate- Build your narrator-yourself-into a fully fleshed-out character, giving your readers a clearer, more compelling idea of who is speaking and why they should listen. .Robin Hemley- Develop a narrative strategy for structuring your story and making it cohesive. .Carolyn Forche- Master the journalistic ethics of creative nonfiction. .Dinty W. Moore- Use satire, exaggeration, juxtaposition, and other forms of humor in creative nonfiction. .Philip Gerard- Understand the narrative stance-why and how an author should, or should not, enter into the story. Through insightful prompts and exercises, these contributors help make the challenge of writing creative nonfiction-whether biography, true-life adventure, memoir, or narrative history-a welcome, rewarding endeavor. You'll also find an exciting, creative nonfiction "reader" comprising the final third of the book, featuring pieces from Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, Beverly Lowry, Phillip Lopate, and more-selections so extraordinary, they will teach, delight, inspire, and entertain you for years to come.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. "Talking to paper is talking to the divine. Paper is infinitely patient. Each time you scratch on it, you trace part of yourself, and thus part of the world, and thus part of the grammar of the universe. It is a huge language, but each of us tracks his or her particular understanding of it." -from A Walk Between Heaven and Earth Unlike any other guide to journal writing, A Walk Between Heaven and Earth is itself written as a personal journal and as a meditation on the flow of creation. Burghild Nina Holzer demonstrates that the creative process is in fact a large, ongoing movement in our lives and that we may gradually discover the pattern and direction of it by trusting whatever it is we choose to confide to the page. She helps would-be writers recognize the power and importance of opening themselves to the present moment and recording whatever they find there. Holzer's book is both inspiration and model. It will appeal not only to those who wish to explore the creative process as a mystical path, but to all who desire to express themselves through writing.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. "Talking to paper is talking to the divine. Paper is infinitely patient. Each time you scratch on it, you trace part of yourself, and thus part of the world, and thus part of the grammar of the universe. It is a huge language, but each of us tracks his or her particular understanding of it." -from A Walk Between Heaven and Earth Unlike any other guide to journal writing, A Walk Between Heaven and Earth is itself written as a personal journal and as a meditation on the flow of creation. Burghild Nina Holzer demonstrates that the creative process is in fact a large, ongoing movement in our lives and that we may gradually discover the pattern and direction of it by trusting whatever it is we choose to confide to the page. She helps would-be writers recognize the power and importance of opening themselves to the present moment and recording whatever they find there. Holzer's book is both inspiration and model. It will appeal not only to those who wish to explore the creative process as a mystical path, but to all who desire to express themselves through writing.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Here are the ideas, experiments, and inspiration to unfold your imagination and get your writing to flow off the page! This is the everything-you-need guide to spark new poems and unstick old stories, including lists of big, small, gross-out, and favorite words; adventurous and zany prompts to leap from; dares and double dares to help you mash up truths and lies into outrageous paragraphs; and letters of encouragement written directly to you from famous authors, including: Annie Barrows, Naomi Shihab Nye, Lemony Snicket, C. M. Mayo, Elizabeth Singer Hunt, Moira Egan, Gary Soto, Lucille Clifton, Avi, Betsy Franco, Carol Edgarian, Karen Cushman, Patricia Polacco, Prartho Sereno, Lewis Buzbee, and C. B. Follett. This is your journal for inward-bound adventures-use it to write, brainstorm, explore, imagine-and even rip. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. Spins the romantic tradition of keeping a travel journal into a modern adventure in creativity and awareness. This book introduces the travel journal as an instrument to help you observe and remember your travels in a more dynamic way by teaching you to keep an active record - and by convincing you, first and foremost, to write stuff down.…

Condition: Very Good. The perfect introduction to creative writing that will get your imagination flowing.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Here are the ideas, experiments, and inspiration to unfold your imagination and get your writing to flow off the page! This is the everything-you-need guide to spark new poems and unstick old stories, including lists of big, small, gross-out, and favorite words; adventurous and zany prompts to leap from; dares and double dares to help you mash up truths and lies into outrageous paragraphs; and letters of encouragement written directly to you from famous authors, including: Annie Barrows, Naomi Shihab Nye, Lemony Snicket, C. M. Mayo, Elizabeth Singer Hunt, Moira Egan, Gary Soto, Lucille Clifton, Avi, Betsy Franco, Carol Edgarian, Karen Cushman, Patricia Polacco, Prartho Sereno, Lewis Buzbee, and C. B. Follett. This is your journal for inward-bound adventures-use it to write, brainstorm, explore, imagine-and even rip. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Spins the romantic tradition of keeping a travel journal into a modern adventure in creativity and awareness. This book introduces the travel journal as an instrument to help you observe and remember your travels in a more dynamic way by teaching you to keep an active record - and by convincing you, first and foremost, to write stuff down.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Here are the ideas, experiments, and inspiration to unfold your imagination and get your writing to flow off the page! This is the everything-you-need guide to spark new poems and unstick old stories, including lists of big, small, gross-out, and favorite words; adventurous and zany prompts to leap from; dares and double dares to help you mash up truths and lies into outrageous paragraphs; and letters of encouragement written directly to you from famous authors, including: Annie Barrows, Naomi Shihab Nye, Lemony Snicket, C. M. Mayo, Elizabeth Singer Hunt, Moira Egan, Gary Soto, Lucille Clifton, Avi, Betsy Franco, Carol Edgarian, Karen Cushman, Patricia Polacco, Prartho Sereno, Lewis Buzbee, and C. B. Follett. This is your journal for inward-bound adventures-use it to write, brainstorm, explore, imagine-and even rip. …

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