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82) Oracle night
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Recovering from a near-fatal illness, Sidney Orr, a thirty-four-year-old novelist, purchases a mysterious blue notebook from a Brooklyn stationery shop and is drawn into a bizarre world of eerie premonitions and baffling events.
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Fewer words. Sharper stories. Bigger impact.
Are you getting bogged down in lengthy prose and bloated descriptions? Time to say F*ck the Details and write stories that move!
Descriptive elements don't have to be speed bumps that grind everything to a halt. Ditch the fluff and craft lean stories that grab your readers by the eyeballs and pack a bone-crunching punch.
In this quick read you will learn how to:
Write description that leverages common...
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This is your roadmap for completing the memoir you've dreamed about writing.
It's FINALLY time to write your story! Writing memoir is daunting! You're the expert on your life, naturally, but narrating and organizing your own experiences in the best way can feel impossible. SO many writers become frustrated in early drafting stages and quit after a couple of brief attempts. That's not you, not anymore! Learn from bestselling memoirist Rachael Herron...
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"An experienced professional copywriter and book author presents simple tips to help anxious writers overcome writer's block, develop ideas, and communicate effectively. Aimed at non-professional writers who write mainly for school, work, or other business-related purposes" --Publisher.
86) Jeff Kinney
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"Simple text and full-color photographs introduce readers to Jeff Kinney. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
87) Dark fire
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Bestselling author David Rain returns to help Lucy and the Pennykettle dragons try to find and destroy a drop of dark fire before it is discovered and used to birth a darkling, while in the Arctic, enshrouded in mist, hide dragons that have at last returned to Earth.
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Have a great idea for a novel, but don't know where to start? Have you started your novel, but got bogged down after only the first few pages and don't know how to go on? Then this book is for you!
Chapter One is a beginning writing course. This book can be used in conjunction with the course or instead of it. You can use this book in two ways: the super-easy way by reading the "Basics" and getting right to work, or get a little more in-depth by...
91) The ghost writer
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In this tantalizing tale of Victorian ghost stories and family secrets, timid, solitary librarian Gerard Freeman lives for just two things: his elusive pen pal Alice and a story he found hidden in his mother's drawer years ago. Written by his great-grandmother Viola, it hints at his mother's role in a sinister crime. As he discovers more of Viola's chilling tales, he realizes that they might hold the key to finding Alice and unveiling his family's...
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"The life of a book isn't easy, especially when people judge you by your cover (not every book can be adorned with sparkly unicorns!). And this narrator should know--it's the book itself, and it has a lot of opinions. It gets irritated when readers bend its pages back, and it finds authors quite annoying. But it does have a story to tell. Through witty direct address and charming illustrations, readers meet a book that has never been read, with a...
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Saviez-vous que l'écriture d'un livre se classe parmi les trois premières choses sur les listes de choses à faire?
Peut-être que c'est aussi sur le vtre ou peut-être que vous avez toujours pensé à écrire un roman ou que vous avez une histoire qui doit être racontée.
Écrire un livre est plus difficile que vous ne le pensez... Être publié encore plus difficile, alors j'ai mis en place ce que j'appelle, Novel Writing Blueprint.
Il...
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A complete guide to the art and craft of creative nonfiction-from one of its pioneer practitioners
The challenge of creative nonfiction is to write the truth in a style that is as accurate and informative as reportage, yet as personal, provocative, and dramatic as fiction.
In this one-of-a-kind guide, it gives you concise, pointed advice on every aspect of writing and selling your work, including:
* Guidelines for choosing provocative-and salable-topics
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You've seen their names on the shelves of the local bookstore: Francine Rivers, Beth Moore, Tom Clancy, Rick Warren, Tim LeHaye, etc. You've seen biographies about D.L. Moody, Corrie Ten Boom, and the Hudson Twins. Slowly but surely, a dream forms in your own mind; A dream that becomes a quietly entertained heart-felt longing to see your own name on a book one day; to have your own story in print. With advances in technology and drastic changes in...
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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, Telling...
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You have a story you want to tell and have organised the time to do it. As you begin, your pen or fingers on the keyboard falter, like a little cough to clear your voice, and there's that nagging doubt that plagues you: Who am I to tell this story? What have I got to say? Dr. Amanda Apthorpe guides you in finding your authentic, dynamic voice using the successful techniques she has shared with hundreds of her writing students. This easy-to-follow...
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"I can't write with the kids!" Does that sound familiar? It's tough to write when you're a parent, but there's hope. Author Connie B. Dowell had two kids in less than two years. Just a few months after the second birth, she and her family fled her home during Hurricane Harvey. Between caring for two little ones and dealing with the aftermath of a natural disaster, she wondered if her writing days were done.
But with hard work, she found a way.
This...
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