A Writer's Guide to Creative Blogging

A Writer's Guide to Creative Blogging
Author: Paul Nieder
Publisher: For Love of Books
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2015-06-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780986600944

Writers hear it all the time: if you want to reach new readers, you must have a strong online author platform. Publicists and successful writers agree that a blog is an essential element of any writer's social media presence. But in a world of competing outlets, this is easier said than done. How do you start a blog or even set one up? How do you attract followers? What should you even write about, anyway? Rebecca Emrich's blog, Living a Life of Writing, has been live for seven years. Through trial and error, she's learned how to produce compelling content, gaining a strong community of regular followers and contributors that include fellow successful blogger and coauthor, Paul Nieder. A Writer's Guide to Creative Blogging provides a slew of practical and easy-to-understand tips, from a glossary of basic terms to promotional advice, for those interested in making their blogging debut. If you love to write but aren't sure how to share your words with the world, this is the book with which to start. Your readers, and your Klout score, will thank you for it!

Creative Writing For Dummies

Creative Writing For Dummies
Author: Maggie Hamand
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2012-01-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0470742917

Unlock your creativity and choose the genre of writing that suits you best Do you have an idea that you’re burning to get down on paper? Do you want to document your travels to far-flung places, or write a few stanzas of poetry? Whether you dream of being a novelist, a travel writer, a poet, a playwright or a columnist, Creative Writing For Dummies shows you how to unlock your creativity and choose the genre of writing that suits you best. Walking you through characterisation, setting, dialogue and plot, as well as giving expert insights into both fiction and non-fiction, it’s the ideal launching pad to the world of creative writing. Creative Writing For Dummies covers: Part I: Getting started Chapter 1: Can Everyone Write? Chapter 2: Getting into the Write Mind Chapter 3: Finding the Material to work with Part II: The Elements of Creative Writing Chapter 4: Creating Characters Chapter 5: Discovering Dialogue Chapter 6: Who is telling the story? Chapter 7: Creating your own world Chapter 8: Plotting your way Chapter 9: Creating a Structure Chapter 10: Rewriting and editing Part III: Different Kinds of Fiction Writing Chapter 11: Short stories Chapter 12: Novels Chapter 13: Writing for children Chapter 14: Plays Chapter 15: Screenplays Chapter 16: Poetry Part IV: Different kinds of Non-fiction writing Chapter 17: Breaking into journalism - Writing articles/ magazine writing Chapter 18: Writing from life and autobiography Chapter 19: Embroidering the facts: Narrative non-fiction Chapter 20: Exploring the world from your armchair - Travel writing Chapter 21: Blogging – the new big thing Part V: Finding an audience Chapter 22: Finding editors/ publishers/ agents Chapter 23: Becoming a professional Part VI: Part of Tens Chapter 24: Ten top tips for writers Chapter 25: Ten ways to get noticed

Creative Visualization for Writers

Creative Visualization for Writers
Author: Nina Amir
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2016-10-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1440347182

Explore Your Motivations. Replenish Your Creativity. Define Your Vision for Success. To become a more creative, confident, and productive writer, you need to focus your attention, visualize your desires, set clearly defined goals, and take action toward your dreams. Let Creative Visualization for Writers be your guide on this journey of self-discovery. You'll learn how to: • Evaluate your beliefs and shed self-defeating behaviors. • Determine your destination by visualizing your ideas and goals. • Develop an Author Attitude that will help you write, achieve, earn, and produce more. • Discover new ways to foster your creativity and productivity. • Affirm that you have what it takes to succeed. Featuring more than 100 exercises and prompts to spark new writing ideas and give you a creative boost, as well as coloring pages to encourage relaxation, Creative Visualization for Writers helps you transform your dreams into reality and find joy in the creative process.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creative Writing

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creative Writing
Author: Laurie Rozakis
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2004
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781592572069

A fifty percent revision of a popular Complete Idiot's Guide that now, more than ever, offers readers a thorough, creative writing class in a book, with Dr. Laurie Rozakis as their teacher. The book is refocused to more of an academic approach. Readers can begin to unlock their creativity from the first page, with fabulous exercises that help them explore their talents and experiment with different genres and forms of writing, including: • •Short stories •Narrative nonfiction •Memoirs •Magazine articles •Poetry •Drama •Blogging and freewriting

Writing Guide

Writing Guide
Author: George Wise
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2019-12-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781673125931

This is a guide for those who are not only passionate about the art of words, but yearn, to make their writing more creative. It's quite obvious that anyone can write a story, however, this book will show you how to bring that story to life with colors, scents, and sounds. The book consists of two parts: The first part gives written practice to beginners, well-experienced authors, bloggers, and freelancers. This part is made up of creative writing prompts, and various writing exercises, it shows the writing books system, reveals the method of writing magic, and helps discover the freedom of writing. In this part you will learn: What POVs are all about, and which one is best for your content How to enhance your descriptive writing What you need to consider when creating a plot Who your target audience is How to publish your writing and make it easily accessible to the many readers out there The second part will help you with: Writing on a blog Finding blog topics Writing content You will learn the rules of blogging. And also, you will be exposed to a lot of helpful lifehacks that will help in making your blog creative and effective.

Adventures in Blogville

Adventures in Blogville
Author: Margaret Andrews
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2014-08-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781500725785

Today's teenagers have incredible, crazy, and brilliant things to say, and creative writing or blogging is an effective outlet for self-expression. Writers are inspired, validated and empowered by blogging because they'll feel their voices are being heard. This humorous and quirkily illustrated 24-chapter book teaches students how to write a compelling essay or blog post, one that other people will want to read. It is not a grammar book, but rather, an instructional guide to more colorful and visceral writing. Each chapter introduces a concept, engages the student with entertaining examples, and provides a writing prompt and assignment. Concepts covered include: How Blogging Can Make You a Better Writer, How to Create a Blog, Grabbing Your Reader from the Beginning, Using Detail to Appeal to the Senses, Active vs. Passive Voice, Metaphors and Similes, Using Dialog, Addressing Writer's Block and more! It's a great resource for homeschool educators. "Adventures in Blogville" covers some of the same concepts as Andrews' previous book, "Sticky Readers: How to Attract a Loyal Blog Audience by Writing More Better", but is aimed at a younger audience in its examples and family-friendly language. PRAISE FOR ADVENTURES IN BLOGVILLE... "I wish there had been a book like this available for me when I was in high school. I also love the illustrations and the author's sense of humor. ”—Amber Felix, homeschool mom & blogger "Adventures in Blogville has the perfect light-hearted tone that young writers need when reading about writing—often a topic they find dull and boring, which Margaret avoids completely with her off-the-wall references and wacky illustrations. Definitely a book I would use for this age group." —Janna Marlies Maron, Adjunct Professor of English, Publisher of True Story magazine “Margaret nails some of the most important challenges young writers face and shows them how to express themselves in a concise, well-thought-out manner, while effectively engaging her audience. This book belongs in every high school student's backpack!” —Nichole Beaudry, former English Professor, Managing Editor of Savvy Sassy Moms magazine

Story Engineering

Story Engineering
Author: Larry Brooks
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2011-01-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1599632810

What makes a good story or a screenplay great? The vast majority of writers begin the storytelling process with only a partial understanding where to begin. Some labor their entire lives without ever learning that successful stories are as dependent upon good engineering as they are artistry. But the truth is, unless you are master of the form, function and criteria of successful storytelling, sitting down and pounding out a first draft without planning is an ineffective way to begin. Story Engineering starts with the criteria and the architecture of storytelling, the engineering and design of a story--and uses it as the basis for narrative. The greatest potential of any story is found in the way six specific aspects of storytelling combine and empower each other on the page. When rendered artfully, they become a sum in excess of their parts. You'll learn to wrap your head around the big pictures of storytelling at a professional level through a new approach that shows how to combine these six core competencies which include: • Four elemental competencies of concept, character, theme, and story structure (plot) • Two executional competencies of scene construction and writing voice The true magic of storytelling happens when these six core competencies work together in perfect harmony. And the best part? Anyone can do it!

Short-Form Creative Writing

Short-Form Creative Writing
Author: H. K. Hummel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1350019909

Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology is a complete introduction to the art and craft of extremely compressed works of imaginative literature. H. K. Hummel and Stephanie Lenox introduce both traditional and innovative approaches to the short form and demonstrate how it possesses structure, logic, and coherence while simultaneously resisting expectations. With discussion questions, writing prompts, flash interviews, and illustrated key concepts, the book covers: - Prose poetry - Flash fiction - Micro memoir - Lyric essay - Cross-genre/hybrid writing . . . and much more. Short-Form Creative Writing also includes an anthology, offering inspiring examples of short-form writing in all of the styles covered by the book, including work by Charles Baudelaire, Italo Calvino, Lydia Davis, Grant Faulkner, Ilya Kaminsky, Jamaica Kinkaid , and many others.

The Creative Doer

The Creative Doer
Author: Anna Lovind
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2019-06-26
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9151916819

A path for female creators, activists and magicmakers. The Creative Doer offers a roadmap for women who are hungry for a more creative life and who are willing to ask a few burning questions: What if we stopped trying to follow in the footsteps of the Male Genius? What does devotion look like if it doesn't mean forsaking everything and everyone, including your kids, for your art? What would happen if we granted ourselves the permission we're waiting for and started doing our work, our way? In this insightful, no-bullshit guide you'll learn how to: - Redefine creative work and bust the old myths about The Artist - Zoom in on your dream until it's doable - Claim the time and space you need to do your work - Understand fear and how to flow with it - Do self-care in a way that will change your creative life forever - Share your work, truthfully, tenderly and courageously

Consistent Creative Content

Consistent Creative Content
Author: Lee Hall
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2021-12-06
Genre:
ISBN:

Best-selling indie author and blogger Lee Hall shares his journey of experience in this part-memoir part-guidebook that aims to inspire and inform budding wordsmiths at any level. From the basics of blogging and authoring all the way to advanced social media methods and marketing; this book is filled with good practical advice, top tips and effective strategies. You'll even find some never before shared resources to help navigate your way to authoring and blogging success in the social media age. Subjects include: Basic and advanced blogging; Basic authoring and a publishing overview; Social media for authors and bloggers; Book marketing and the art of indirect selling; Book promotion strategies. Including worked examples; Book reviews; Building your own turning point and identifying when that 'wave of success' is coming; Practicing self-care. Plus, a whole host of resources with links to the various guides and tutorials Lee has published via his highly successful Hall of Information blog. After selling hundreds of books and getting thousands of blog views, you'll discover how Lee Hall published six books in five years through a detailed road map and how he put together the building blocks of success to sell books and gain social media traction. This easy-to-read guide will inspire the modern-day author and blogger to achieve the same by carving their own path and all you need is Consistent Creative Content. 'You can do this, quite simply because I did and you might even leapfrog anything I've achieved." - Lee Hall