Creative Writing

The best-selling creator of The Periodic Table outlines an upbeat approach to creative writing that personifies key steps and elements of good writing to explain such areas as creating characters, est

This engaging book is full of activities designed to get children experimenting with words and writing creatively. Each activity introduces and reinforces a specific type of writing in a fun, accessib

Write interviews, play scripts, diary entries and instructions with the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller! Get stuck in with The Twits and find your own remarkable reason to write.These super fun activit

Create wonderful dialogue to give your characters a voice! Write conversations and reported speech with Matilda. These fun activities and writing tasks help to develop language and vocabulary skills,

How can I become more disciplined? How do I know if I’m talented? Should I self-publish? These are just a few of the perennial and contemporary questions addressed in this delightfully different guide

The hilariously fun card game that boosts vocabulary and builds kids' creative storytelling skills.Engage kids' imaginations and creative storytelling with a laugh-out-loud card game!Do you have the words to describe a nervous sidekick? An attention-seeking unicorn? A dangerously spicy sauce? May the best storyteller win!From multi-award-winning word-learning experts Mrs Wordsmith comes Storyteller's Card Game for ages 7+.Teaching rich, descriptive vocabulary to help kids write brilliant stories. Featuring 300 hilariously illustrated word cards, and 200 story prompts designed to fire kids' imaginations – this game is guaranteed to boost creative writing vocabulary and make your whole family explode with laughter! Developed with childhood literacy experts to ensure children learn the right words in the right way.

The Story Pirates present an imaginative and funny novel! This book (inspired by a real kid's idea) doubles as a creative writing guide for young writers!A glitchy time machine strands a bumbling jani

A new offering in the wildly popular 642 series, this unique journal encourages young creators to dive deep into the subject they know best—themselves! Packed with quirky, thought-provoking, and imaginative drawing and writing prompts, 642 Things About Me: Young Writer's & Artist's Edition is a fun way for kids to document their lives, jump-start their creative talent, and produce a memorable keepsake—or the first draft of their bestselling memoir.

Hilarious and heartwarming, an east-meets-west novel for fans of The Little Coffee Shop of KabulEvery woman has a secret life...When Nikki takes a creative writing job at her local temple, with vision

Finally a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary."Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal

Here are 712 more witty, outrageous, and thoughtprovoking writing prompts for fans of the superpopular 642 Things to Write About—all guaranteed to get the creative juices flowing: from listing childhood hiding places and describing the sensation of falling asleep to creating memorable characters, unusual fortune cookie messages, and mash-up movie plotlines. A great gift for avid authors, occasional journalers, and casual writers in search of a spark of inspiration.

這是一個人人都需要故事，也是人人都要會說故事的時代!讓真正的故事高手，告訴你如何寫出好故事！你正走的路，所有的大師們都走過，說出動人的故事不能只靠理論，在這本書中，讓馬奎斯、海明威、村上春樹、Ｊ•K•羅琳……告訴你他們親自驗證過的可行方案。「當我寫不出句子，文思枯竭時，有時會這麼自問：換作狄更斯的話他會怎麼寫？貝婁呢？納博科夫呢？當然你是希望能用自己的話表達，但景仰的作家可以助你一臂之力。」──英

A creative non-fiction writing instructor describes how ever-present, modern artificial lights have changed the way humans experience darkness and bemoans the fact that the primal dark sky can no long

"Inspiring insights on effective, artful writing from a beloved author, whose insights will resonate with writers, artists, musicians, craftspersons, and anyone drawn to creative pursuits"--

Make those writing dreams a reality with this comprehensive guide that explains how to go from staring at an empty page to becoming a published author.Designed to inspire creative expression and help

Build your confidence in your French skills with practice, practice, practice!From present tense regular verbs to double object pronouns, this comprehensive guide and workbook covers all those aspects of French grammar that you might find a little intimidating or hard to remember. Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French Grammar focuses on the practical aspects of French as it's really spoken, so you are not bogged down by unnecessary technicalities. Each unit features crystal-clear explanations, numerous realistic examples, and dozens of engaging exercises in a variety of formats--including multiple choice, fill-in sentences and passages, sentence rewrites, and creative writing--perfect for whatever your learning style.Whenever possible, explanations include comparisons you to understand the basic logic behind the rules and to remember correct usage. This new edition includes: Time-saving vocabulary panels that eliminate having to look words upAdvice on how to avoid common mistakes A d

Tolkien once wrote: 'I love Wales - and especially the Welsh language'. This book explores how that love influenced Tolkien's ideas about language, many aspects of his creative writing, and his sense

If you could get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for anything at all, what would it be? This writing assignment, given out in Ms. Hart?s tenth-grade creative writing class, sparks a group of nine

A helpful resource offers guidance on a wide range of written language issues and elements, from expressive creative writing to effective professional prose, and includes examples from great modern wr

Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose. In Reading

Writing the Fire! offers writers a new and visionary practice: using yoga to release the body’s inner intelligence and then support, shape, and inform the creative process.Indeed, “writing is yoga,” d

Why is it that some writers struggle for months to come up with the perfect sentence or phrase while others, hunched over a keyboard deep into the night, seem unable to stop writing? In The Midnight D

A sprightly text and colorful illustrations follow two creative people-and a talkative dog and cat-through the writing process step by step, from the inspiration for a story to the satisfaction of sha

This book provides practical guidance and inspiration on a vast array of writing topics, including how to access memories, find a narrative voice, build a vivid world on the page, create structure, us

Swedish Writers on Writing, the eighth book in the Writer's World series, offers many points of entry for scholars, writers, creative writing students, and general readers. Although the anthology is n

A fundamental introduction to newswriting and reporting, this text focuses on the basics of reporting, including critical thinking, thorough reporting, excellent writing and creative visual communica