Creative Writing

Essential Reading for Songwriters Welcome to The Organized Songwriter’s Workbook! This is an accompaniment to the main book, The Organized Songwriter - How to Create Space to Write Your Best Songs. In this book, there are 15 exercises to help you make practical steps to set up your space, just like a pro songwriter. From mindsets and organizing your precious ideas and songs, organizing your ‘tools of the trade’, your co-writes and then how to organize the next steps of your journey as a songwriter. Andrea Stolpe, instructor at Berklee Music School, multi-platinum recorded songwriter, ...

A practical and inspiring guide to transformational personal storytelling, The Story You Need to Tell is the product of Sandra Marinella’s pioneering work with veterans and cancer patients, her years of teaching writing, and her research into its profound healing properties. Riveting true stories illustrate Marinella’s methods for understanding, telling, and editing personal stories in ways that foster resilience and renewal. She also shares her own experience of using journaling and expressive writing to navigate challenges including breast cancer and postpartum depression.

Author Scott Dikkers will tell you how to write jokes. He’s a master joke writer, founder of the world’s most popular humor site TheOnion.com, number one New York Times best-selling humor author, professional public speaker, and successful cartoonist. In this definitive joke-writing handbook, he'll teach you comedy writing and how to write a joke with a simple comedy-writing and joke-writing formula you can use right now to write your own jokes.

Before Logan Barnes was hockey’s hottest bad boy, he was my brother’s best friend … and my first crush. Oh, yeah—and the guy who ghosted me and broke my teenage heart.

Are you tired of waiting on inspiration to complete your songs? Are you not getting the response you hoped for from your songs? Is the songwriting process painful at times? Song Building will help you write songs faster and avoid getting stuck on second verses.

Like a seasoned sportscaster, Fish marvels at the adeptness of finely crafted sentences and breaks them down into digestible morsels, giving listeners an instant play-by-play. Drawing on a wide range of great writers, from Philip Roth to Antonin Scalia to Jane Austen, How to Write a Sentence is much more than a writing manual—it is a spirited love letter to the written word, and a key to understanding how great writing works. It is a book that will stand the test of time.

Are you tired of writing intermittently? Would you like to install a lifelong writing habit, one that gets your butt in the chair every single day? Then this is the book for you. Lifelong Writing Habit draws on well-tested neuroscience to help you install a daily writing habit that will endure for life. It contains a simple-to-understand system, with actionable steps at the end of every chapter.

This audiobook is a detailed guide for effective resume writing. Write a resume that lands interviews and gets your foot in the door. Your resume is a powerful career marketing tool; thus, your resume should be a persuasive marketing piece and not a dull career biography. Don't let your resume go unnoticed: take charge, and follow this course to learn how to get your foot in the door and market your greatest commodity: yourself.

ChatGPT Secrets: Unlocking AI for Business, Writing, and Daily Life In a world rapidly transformed by artificial intelligence, those who master AI will lead the way. ChatGPT Secrets is your ultimate guide to unlocking the full power of AI—whether you’re an entrepreneur, writer, student, or simply someone looking to boost productivity and creativity. Imagine generating business ideas in minutes, crafting compelling content effortlessly, and automating daily tasks like a pro.

Winner of the Nautilus Book Award: Gold Prize in Creativity & Innovation Give yourself permission to do it badly! Are you ready to write your truth, share your unique voice, and change the world? This book will give you the permission, tools, and guidance to make a mess of it and start the writer's journey unburdened. With the guidance in this book, you'll learn how to: Transform your story into something powerful, daring, and inspiring Tap into the emotional power of storytelling Create content that resonates with your audience Overcome limitations that have been holding you back This book...

CONGRATULATIONS , you are finally going to write your book! You have moved from planning to write a book, to actually writing one. It’s your goal to write a short book with clear benefits to the reader. But this isn’t your first attempt, is it? Maybe you have written your book a hundred times before and never finished because somewhere along the way, you end up stuck or hating your work. In other words, you lose the initial momentum and excitement you had for writing the thing. How to author and self-publish a book are questions that burn in your soul. Burn, baby burn. People who know ...

Over the course of the past twenty-five years, Julia Cameron has taught thousands of artists and aspiring artists how to unblock wellsprings of creativity. And time and again she has noticed an interesting thing: Often when her students uncover their creative selves they also undergo a surprising physical transformation - invigorated by their work, they slim down. In The Writing Diet, Cameron illuminates the relationship between creativity and eating to reveal a crucial equation: Creativity can block overeating.

Finally a easy-to-understand way of getting through the dreaded writer's block. Here you'll be able to get a jump start on your writing. When all else fails and you just don't seem to be able to put anything down on paper or on your screen these helpful hints and tips will get your motor running once again. Learn the secrets of GOYDA and how important it is in your life each day. Start today and begin your newest and best work tomorrow.

The Freeing Creative Voice anthology is a one-of-a-kind collection of creative pieces, lesson plans, and education research reports. The pieces in this anthology were composed by Masters’ students studying Creative Writing and Education at Goldsmiths, University of London, and by high school students in south London. Many of the articles in this anthology investigate how educators, creatives, and learners can liberate and uplift their voices through writing, teaching, investigating, and intentional everyday living. This unique anthology is essential reading for both teachers and writers, ...

Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. Passionate and reflective, joyful and despairing, these are her alphabetical diaries.

Every writer knows that as rewarding as the creative process is, it can often be a bumpy road. Have hope and keep at it! Designed to kick-start creativity, this audio handbook from the executive director of National Novel Writing Month gathers a wide range of insights and advice for writers at any stage of their career. From tips about how to finally start that story, to helpful ideas about what to do when the words just aren't quite coming out right, Pep Talks for Writers provides motivation, encouragement, and helpful exercises for writers of all stripes.

Adult humorous fiction Famous Union College is a slow moving train wreck, a place where what is what is not. Two hapless heroes. An exhibitionist secretary. Bumbling administrators. A paranoid football coach. Conniving coeds. A sex obsessed football player. Who knows what will happen next... "The characters are all interesting and well developed - and many would be great study cases for a psych major." - HAMPTON REVIEWS "It's light and humorous with a bit of a wink and a lot of wry puckish humor." - Pop Bop, Top 500 Amazon Reviewer From the author of the endearing story THE SURVIVAL OF ...

What If is an essay about the power of daydreaming, and why you should never, ever, ever, become a writer. James J. Caterino is the author of Jordan Rose and the Tomb of Resurrection, The Anti-Matter Girl, Dreams, True Stories, To Meghan, I Want to Believe, Ghost Stories, Pop Star, Time Travel Stories, The Girl from the Stars, and much more.

If you're aiming to win a flash fiction competition, you probably know how hard it is to write a compelling story in 500 words. The challenge of flash fiction lies not in the number of words, but the emotion and originality of the tale you can tell with these few words. Participating in competitions, with entry fees as low as $5 and prizes up to $1,000, isn't about luck; it's about skill and creativity. As a judge, I've seen over a thousand submissions, most of them perfectly polished. So choosing a winner is extremely hard, though the best often stand out on first reading and stay with you...

Are you ready to raise your writing game? Discover advanced creative writing techniques to take your fiction, drama, and poetry to a new level! Dramatic techniques are all about bold, clear, high-impact writing. Once you discover the craft concepts used by screen and stage writers to bring stories to life, you’ll never look back. This practical guide to dramatic concepts will give you confidence in structure, plotting and character, and may even blow your mind. At the very least, you’ll kick yourself for not discovering them sooner.