Writing Lives: Second Edition

Writing Lives: Second Edition
Author: Staunton, Irene
Publisher: Weaver Press
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 177922270X

Writing Lives is the seventh of Weaver's anthologies of short stories following Writing Still, Writing Now, Laughing Now, Women Writing Zimbabwe, Mazambuko and Writing Free. As with the other anthologies, this vibrant collection reflects the lives and experiences of Zimbabweans as filtered through the lens of each author's perceptions. Writing Lives gives us stories that will make us laugh and bring tears to our eyes as it provides a focus on the past, the present and even the future.

A Writing Book

A Writing Book
Author: Tina Kasloff Carver
Publisher: Pearson Education ESL
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780131879720

This rich teacher's resource activity book is packed with more than 100 reproducible writing lessons designed to help students improve their language skills by simultaneously developing fluency and literacy.

The Writer's Portable Mentor

The Writer's Portable Mentor
Author: Priscilla Long
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2018
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 082636005X

Designed to mentor writers at all levels, from beginning to quite advanced, The Writer's Portable Mentor offers a wealth of insight and crafting models from the author's twenty-plus years of teaching and creative thought. The book provides tools for structuring a book, story, or essay. It trains writers in observation and in developing a poet's ear for sound in prose. It scrutinizes the sentence strategies of the masters and offers advice on how to publish. This second edition is updated to account for changes in the publishing industry and provides hundreds of new craft models to inspire, guide, and develop every writer's work.

Writing Life Stories

Writing Life Stories
Author: Bill Roorbach
Publisher: Story Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1998-07-15
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

A guide to writing stories, memoirs, and personal essays that includes information on remembering distant memories; making real people into characters; using public records, interviews, and diaries to create a believable story; and other related topics.

Writing Lives

Writing Lives
Author: Leon Edel
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1987
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780393303827

This Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer's summary of his lifework includes a study of the biographical art, which deals with problems of life-myth, archives, narrative forms, questions of transference, and fears of "psychologizing" in writing modern biographies

Critical Autoethnography

Critical Autoethnography
Author: Robin M. Boylorn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2016-06-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1315431246

This volume uses autoethnography—cultural analysis through personal narrative—to explore the tangled relationships between culture and communication. Using an intersectional approach to the many aspects of identity at play in everyday life, a diverse group of authors reveals the complex nature of lived experiences. They situate interpersonal experiences of gender, race, ethnicity, ability, and orientation within larger systems of power, oppression, and social privilege. An excellent resource for undergraduates, graduate students, educators, and scholars in the fields of intercultural and interpersonal communication, and qualitative methodology.

A Writer's Book of Days

A Writer's Book of Days
Author: Judy Reeves
Publisher: New World Library
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2010-08-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781577313120

First published a decade ago, A Writer's Book of Days has become the ideal writing coach for thousands of writers. Newly revised, with new prompts, up-to-date Web resources, and more useful information than ever, this invaluable guide offers something for everyone looking to put pen to paper — a treasure trove of practical suggestions, expert advice, and powerful inspiration. Judy Reeves meets you wherever you may be on a given day with: • get-going prompts and exercises • insight into writing blocks • tips and techniques for finding time and creating space • ways to find images and inspiration • advice on working in writing groups • suggestions, quips, and trivia from accomplished practitioners Reeves's holistic approach addresses every aspect of what makes creativity possible (and joyful) — the physical, emotional, and spiritual. And like a smart, empathetic inner mentor, she will help you make every day a writing day.

Process

Process
Author: Sarah Stodola
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781477801086

Ernest Hemingway, Zadie Smith, Joan Didion, Franz Kafka, David Foster Wallace, and more. In Process, acclaimed journalist Sarah Stodola examines the creative methods of literature's most transformative figures. Each chapter contains a mini biography of one of the world's most lauded authors, focused solely on his or her writing process. Unlike how-to books that preach writing techniques or rules, Process puts the true methods of writers on display in their most captivating incarnation: within the context of the lives from which they sprang. Drawn from both existing material and original research and interviews, Stodola brings to light the fascinating, unique, and illuminating techniques behind these literary behemoths.

Snoopy’s Guide to the Writing Life

Snoopy’s Guide to the Writing Life
Author: Barnaby Conrad
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2004-07-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781582973234

Presents a collection of Peanuts comic strips that revolve around writers and the art of writing along with advice and insights from such authors as Elmore Leonard, Elizabeth George, Sue Grafton, Ray Bradbury, Julia Child, and Danielle Steel. Reprint.

Still Writing

Still Writing
Author: Dani Shapiro
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0802193439

This national bestseller from celebrated novelist and memoirist Dani Shapiro is an intimate and eloquent companion to living a creative life. Through a blend of memoir, meditation on the artistic process, and advice on craft, Shapiro offers her gift to writers everywhere: a guide of hard-won wisdom and advice for staying the course. In the ten years since the first edition, Still Writing has become a mainstay of creative writing classes as well as a lodestar for writers just starting out, and above all, an indispensable almanac for modern writers.