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Publisher
Collective Ink
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Telling Life's Tales is a comprehensive guide to writing life stories. It helps writers and non-writers to decide what they want to tell of their lives and how they want to tell it. Giving practical advice and information, the reader will learn story structure, key elements of writing, how to plot and plan and how to check all their facts.
Everyone has a tale to tell and this book will help those tales come alive. Whether you are 22 or 82,...
Everyone has a tale to tell and this book will help those tales come alive. Whether you are 22 or 82,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
From the explosion of fake news to the challenges of the 24 hour news cycle, legendary journalist Bob Schieffer examines political journalism today and those who practice it. Based on interviews with over 40 media leaders, Schieffer provides an inside look at the changing role of media and asks whether today's citizens are more informed or just overwhelmed.
Author
Publisher
Start Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Originally published in 1938, this classic by Brenda Ueland is considered by many to be one of the best books ever written on how to be a writer. Part a lesson on writing and part a philosophy on life, Ueland believed that anyone could be a writer and everyone had something important to say. Heavily influenced by the ideas of William Blake, Ueland outlines 12 points to keep in mind while writing and encourages writers to find their true, authentic...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell by Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë
libreka classics — These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience.
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Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"So often people ask me if there's a book on story I can recommend. This is the one. I can't recommend it highly enough."––Alexa Junge, writer/producer, Friends, Sex and the City, The West Wing
A master class of 27 lessons, drawn from 27 diverse narratives, for novelists, storytellers, filmmakers, graphic designers, and more. Author Daniel Joshua Rubin unlocks the secrets of what makes a story work, and then shows how to understand and use...
10) The Agony Column
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
From the creator of Charlie Chan! Set in England at the outbreak of WWI, The Agony Column is a murder mystery and romance told mostly through the device of an "Agony Column" in the newspaper (what Americans would call the "Personals").
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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"Will leave you feeling happier, bolder, and ridiculously excited about diving back into your writing projects." —Chris Baty, author of No Plot? No Problem! and founder of NaNoWriMo
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 handbook from the executive director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) gathers...
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 handbook from the executive director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) gathers...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
The Metal Monster is a Fantasy novel by American writer Abraham Merritt. It was first serialized in Argosy All-Story Weekly in 1920 and features the return of Dr. Goodwin who first appeared in The Moon Pool. The epic adventure starts with a foreword where Merritt is assigned the duty to relay Dr. Walter T. Goodwin's incredible tale of his encounter in the Trans-Himalayan mountains to the world, to let everyone know the terrible fate Goodwin's group...
13) The Amateur
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Amateur" by Richard Harding Davis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
It may be starred, beeped, and censored — yet profanity is so appealing that we can't stop using it. In the funniest, clearest study to date, Benjamin Bergen explains why, and what that tells us about our language and brains.
Nearly everyone swears-whether it's over a few too many drinks, in reaction to a stubbed toe, or in flagrante delicto. And yet, we sit idly by as words are banned from television and censored in books. We insist...
Nearly everyone swears-whether it's over a few too many drinks, in reaction to a stubbed toe, or in flagrante delicto. And yet, we sit idly by as words are banned from television and censored in books. We insist...
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Charles Dickens
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London by Daniel Defoe
A Journal of the Plague Year is a book by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. It is an account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the bubonic plague struck the city of London in what became known as the Great Plague of London, the last epidemic of plague in that city.
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