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Learn how to make your story soar! In the physical world, gravity, force, and other elements of physics govern your abilities and can be utilized to enhance your every movement. In the world of writing, story physics can be harnessed in much the s...

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Learn to write science fiction and fantasy from a master You've always dreamed of writing science fiction and fantasy tales that pull readers into extraordinary new worlds and fantastic conflicts. Best-selling author Orson Scott Card shows you how...

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Got 90 Days? Then You Can Be a Novelist... Many famous authors write their novels in a matter of weeks. William Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying in six weeks. Joyce Carol Oates often cranks out two or three books a year. Stephen King believes first d...

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Give your story its best start! The best beginnings possess a magical quality that grabs readers from the first word and never lets them go. But beginnings aren't just the door into a fictional world. They are the gateway to the realm of publishin...

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Paint Masterful Descriptions on the Page! Writing strong descriptions is an art form, one that you need to carefully develop and practice. The words you choose to describe your characters, scenes, settings, and ideas--in fiction, poetry, and nonfi...

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The definitive guide to writing scenes--now revised and expanded! Scenes are the building blocks for any work of fiction--the DNA sequence that makes a novel un-put-downable and unforgettable. When writers are able to craft effective, engaging sce...

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Between the very sentences of page-turning stories thrums an element that pulls you on without your notice, beckoning you forward with an outstretched finger, your heart beating all the while. Without this element, even the most well crafted chara...

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The Must-Have Guide for SongwritersWriting Better Lyrics has been a staple for songwriters for nearly two decades. Now this revised and updated 2nd Edition provides effective tools for everything from generating ideas, to understanding the form an...

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The Most Trusted Guide to the World of Children's Publishing, fully revised and updated The 33rd edition of Children's Writer's and Illustrator's Market is the definitive and trusted guide for anyone who seeks to write or illustrate for kids and y...

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Transform Your Passion for Writing into a Career! Regardless of the genre, every novelist faces a difficult task. Creating authentic characters and an engaging plot are challenging enough. But attempting to break into the hotter-than-ever romance ...

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Take your fiction to the next level! Maybe you're a first-time novelist looking for practical guidance. Maybe you've already been published, but your latest effort is stuck in mid-list limbo. Whatever the case may be, author and literary agent Don...

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The Best Resource Available for Finding a Literary Agent, fully revised and updated No matter what you're writing--fiction or nonfiction, books for adults or children--you need a literary agent to get the best book deal possible from a traditional...

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The best resource for getting your fiction published, fully revised and updated Novel & Short Story Writer's Market is the go-to resource you need to get your short stories, novellas, and novels published. The 40th edition of NSSWM features hundre...

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The Most Trusted Guide to Publishing Poetry, fully revised and updated Want to get your poetry published? There's no better tool for making it happen than Poet's Market, which includes hundreds of publishing opportunities specifically for poets, i...

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The most trusted guide to getting published, fully revised and updated Want to get published and paid for your writing? Let Writer's Market guide you through the process with thousands of publishing opportunities for writers, including listings fo...

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Don't wait for inspiration to strike! Whether you're an aspiring or published poet, this book will help you get in a frame of mind to make creative writing a consistent part of your life. With prompts from Robert Lee Brewer's popular blog, Poetic ...

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Story is the exploration of something that has gone wrong and a lot has to go right during the telling of that story to render it a success. Yet one of the most common questions new writers ask professional writers is about how the author wrote th...

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Just as a compass provides direction for an explorer, so does motivation provide direction for characters in fiction. The "compass" of character motivation is composed of four points: Lack, Yearning, Resistance, and Desire. In The Compas...

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Keep Writing All Year Long! Whether you're looking for a boost of inspiration or a writing prompt to get your day started, the Writer's Digest 2020 Daily Calendar has everything any writer needs to get their creative juices flowing. Mondays offer ...

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Want to get published and paid for your writing? Let Writer's Market 2020 guide you through the process with thousands of publishing opportunities for writers, including listings for book publishers, consumer and trade magazines, contests and awar...

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Dynamic Dialogue provides the absolute best writing instruction that WD has to offer on dialogue. The essays and articles will help readers successfully approach and overcome issues such as: pacing, suspense, conflict, effectively using dialect an...

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With refreshed content and brand-new exercises for readers to hone their skills, Keys to Great Writing Revised and Expanded Edition presents practical lessons for writers of both fiction and nonfiction to improve their writing. Lessons include: *...

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Of all the elements of fiction-plot, dialogue, character, etc.-point of view might be the most misunderstood, yet the most critical, to telling an effective story. In this new book, Jordan Rosenfeld makes POV as compelling and exciting as creating...

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Empower your writing through craft and community! Writing can be a lonely profession plagued by blind stumbles, writer's block, and despair--but it doesn't have to be. Written by members of the popular Writer Unboxed website, Author in Progress is...

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A Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Finalist for Best Critical/Biographical Work Discover the secrets to crafting an unforgettable mystery! To piece together the puzzle of your mystery novel, you need patience, resilience, a solid understandi...

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Creative Visualization for Writers is designed so that readers can pick up the book and use it for a day, a week or a month - whatever time frame works for them. They can pick and choose from more than 150 interactive exercises, which include ever...

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Fill Your Performance with Spontaneity and Energy Improvisation is an essential and invaluable technique for the actor's repertoire: It asks you to think beyond a script--and its memorized lines, movements, and facial expressions--to deliver a per...

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The most trusted guide to the world of children's publishing! If you write or illustrate for young readers with the hope of getting published, Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market 2017 is the trusted resource you need. Now in its 29th ed...

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The most trusted guide to publishing poetry! Want to get your poetry published? There's no better tool for making it happen than Poet's Market 2017, which includes hundreds of publishing opportunities specifically for poets, including listings for...

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Songwriter's Market is the go-to source for songwriters and performing artists who seek career advice and up-to-date information for placing their songs with music publishers, discovering record companies or producers, securing representation with...

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