Creative Writing

Ignite Your Imagination with 200 Days of Gothic: Writing Prompts for gothic, dark romance, cosmic horror and paranormal storytelling! Unleash your inner storyteller with 200 Days of Gothic: Writing Prompts! Perfectly crafted for writers, enthusiasts, and dark fiction lovers alike, this book is your ultimate guide to conjuring up tales that will haunt your readers after the sun comes up. Dive into a treasure trove of eerie, twisted, strange and enchanting prompts designed to spark creativity and bring your most spine-chilling ideas to life. Whether you're a seasoned writer or just starting ...

Regular, systematic writing exercises, like those in this book, can be used to improve your creative thinking, your problem solving skills, and your physical and mental health. If you want to boost your brain power, then this book is like acquiring a second brain. People who write on a regular basis, using the kinds of exercises described in this book, create better lives for themselves than they had before they used this writing approach. Writing can change lives! If you are struggling with emotional problems, it is normally best to see a counsellor, psychologist or psychotherapist, to get...

THE ONLY WRITING PROMPT GUIDE YOU’LL EVER NEED! You’re stuck on what to write so check out some writing prompts to spur your creativity. But they don’t help you out of your writing rut…sure, there are some neat ideas but none of them actually lead to a story. That’s because writing prompts all too often miss a key element: conflict. Conflict is the heart of every story, and without it you’re just writing a journal entry. Storystarters presents more than 200 writing prompts centered on exciting and interesting conflicts for your protagonist to solve. The prompts are divided among...

Did you ever wish you could tell a story that leaves others spellbound? Storytelling teacher and champion Margot Leitman will show you how! With a fun, irreverent, and infographic approach, this guide breaks a story into concrete components with ways to improve content, structure, emotional impact, and delivery through personal anecdotes, relatable examples, and practical exercises.

Unleash the Power of Storytelling offers a practical roadmap to crafting and delivering more powerful, persuasive stories that you can use to get more of what you want out of your career and your life. Study after study confirms that stories have unparalleled power to break down walls, build trust, and influence people to act. More than facts and data alone, stories are fundamental to capturing and expressing our ideas, wishes, and beliefs and getting the results we want.

Struggling to write powerful, engaging scenes in your novel? Mastering Your Scenes is the ultimate scene writing workbook for fiction writers, designed to banish writer’s block and help you write compelling, well-structured scenes with clarity and purpose. Whether you're a new author or a seasoned novelist, this fiction writing workbook gives you the tools to build scenes that drive your story forward and keep readers turning the page. Inside, you'll discover a practical, repeatable method for mastering each essential element of great scene writing. ✅ What You’ll Learn: How to write ...

The Artist's Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international best seller, millions have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist's life. Still as vital today, or perhaps even more so, than it was when it was first published one decade ago, it is a powerfully provocative and inspiring work.

Ready to build a fairy tale? First, you’ll need the right tools. Open this title in the Writer’s Toolbox series and discover plenty of tips and tools to get you started. Soon you’ll be writing magical adventures like a pro!

When we’re writing a book, we need inspiration, and we need the “how-to” pieces that we were never taught in school. Start Writing Your Book Today provides both. Over the last 10 years as a writing coach, Morgan has developed a blend of mindset and mechanics to help authors through feeling stuck and into power writing through their books. In this book, Morgan shares her methods with you, so that you can step up and become the writer you know you’re meant to be.

You can wish your cousin a happy birthday. You can share the latest news from school. You can ask your favorite basketball star for playing tips. You can write great letters and emails!

Gorg Huff is a New York Times Best Selling author with over forty books published in the last twenty odd years. He created the WarSpell Multiverse, a Literary Role-Playing Game or LitRPG multiverse years ago. It now has over a dozen titles, with more coming. The RPG WarSpell is fictional created by Gorg Huff to act as a basis for the books and stories. This book is a book of instructions on how to write in Gorg Huff's WarSpell multiverse. It is hoped that it can also be used as a general guide to writing fantasy fiction and alternate history. ✽✽✽ First, let me state that the existence...

As the title suggests, this book is just a bunch of writing prompts meant to inspire novelists, poets, bloggers, and all other kinds of creative persons. Included within you'll find 200 ready-to-use story prompts and 400 two-word prompts to also fire up your imagination. There are writing tips and thoughts to ponder regarding storytelling.

How come authors less talented than you are selling so many books? Why do they get more newspaper and TV interviews? How come they're earning so much money? It's a sharp learning curve when you write and publish a book. And, as you're probably discovering, there's a wide gap between theory and reality. You may be wondering: Is my book any good, or are my friends biased? Do I need a literary agent, or should I go it alone? Can I trust a publisher not to rip me off? Is publishing or self-publishing best for me? How can I get my book serialised in newspapers or magazines? How can I sell books ...

When Pauline Piper reads in the local paper that her old schoolmate Marjorie has published a book and is going to sign copies of it in the local library, she suddenly remembers that she has always wanted to write one. Despite her admission that she has never been able to express herself very well in words, she enlists the help of her patient husband John, a great reader, unlike herself, and begins to pen her very first novel.In her candid account of the ups and downs of authorship, Pauline steers us ably through the process of writing her first work, from its inception to publication day ...

An action-packed urban fantasy adventure set on the islands of Hawaii! My name is Marcus Aries. In addition to running my martial arts school, I serve as the guardian of the Hawaiian Islands. Basically, I’m the middleman between everyday mortals and the world of the supernatural. A world no one else believes is real. One filled with darkness, danger, and creatures who would happily use my guts for fish bait if given the chance. It’s my job to ensure peace, balance, and, when warranted, justice. My latest case has me investigating the disappearance of a young boy, a child not much older ...

The Compound Effect contains the essence of what every super achiever needs to know, practice, and master to obtain extraordinary success. Inside you will hear strategies on how to win-every time; eradicating the bad habits that are derailing your progress; painlessly installing the few key disciplines required for major breakthroughs; the real, lasting keys to gaining and sustaining motivation; capturing the elusive, awesome force of momentum; and the acceleration secrets of superachievers.

Write Through It is a candid, actionable guide to navigating the rollercoaster ride of writing and publishing, both on and off the page. Literary agent and author Kate McKean has been educating authors and demystifying publishing for years in her popular newsletter Agents & Books, and now she walks writers of all genres through every stage of the writing and publishing process and its accompanying emotional moments.

Over a decade ago, when Writing Down the Bones first appeared, Natalie Goldberg started a revolution in the way we practice writing. Now, for the first time, Goldberg reads her classic work, while offering new commentary about the creative, spiritual, and practical dimensions of writing. This collector's edition also includes an exclusive interview with the author.

Draft No. 4 is an elucidation of the writer's craft by a master practitioner. In a series of playful but expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he's gathered over his career and refined during his long-running course at Princeton University, where he has launched some of the most esteemed writers of several generations. McPhee offers a definitive guide to the crucial decisions regarding structure, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces and presents extracts from some of his best-loved work, subjecting them to wry scrutiny.

In the current project focused on grammar books for various classes, Mr. Sarkar has made a concerted effort to simplify English grammar and writing skills for primary-level students. He conducted extensive research on the syllabi of different state and national school boards to identify a common thread. While some boards emphasize specific chapters of English grammar, others overlook them entirely. Mr. Sarkar has aimed to synthesize these varying approaches and present them as a cohesive summary of English grammar and composition. As a result, his book may not fully align with any single ...