The Ambitious Writer’s Guide to Overcoming Creative Blocks and Building a Writing Routine that Works

The Ambitious Writer’s Guide to Overcoming Creative Blocks and Building a Writing Routine that Works
Author: Katie Klein
Publisher: Katie Klein Books
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2021-09-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:
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Be Inspired. Be Bold. Break Through. What do Stephen King, J. K. Rowling, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald have in common? Writer’s Block. Yes, in addition to being bestselling and/or celebrated authors, each of these writers admitted to suffering from writer’s block at some point in their literary careers. In fact, writers of every caliber have faced a creative block at intervals throughout their journeys, but when it happens to us—when a project stalls, when the right words refuse to manifest, when the page remains empty—the doubt creeps in. What is happening? becomes What am I even doing? becomes Why am I even bothering? There is, however, a way out. The Ambitious Writer’s Guide to Overcoming Creative Blocks and Building a Writing Routine that Works not only breaks down the components of a creative block—what it is and isn’t, how it affects us, and how we can move past it—but also offers insights into the creative process, inspiration for writers at any stage, and tips for kick-starting a stalled writing practice. So if you’ve hit that proverbial wall in your current project, if the new project doesn’t want to transfer from your head to the page, or even if you want to safeguard yourself so the creative blocks are fewer and farther between, then this book was written with you in mind. Keywords: writing, writer’s block, creativity, personal success, writing reference, authorship, writing skills, creativity self-help, 2-hour reads

Around the Writer's Block

Around the Writer's Block
Author: Rosanne Bane
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2012-08-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1101597119
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Discover the tricks that your brain uses to keep you from writing—and how to beat them. Do you: Want to write, but find it impossible to get started? Keep your schedules so full that you don’t have any time to write? Wait until the last minute to write, even though you know you could do a better job if you gave yourself more time? Suddenly remember ten other things that you need to do whenever you sit down to write? Sabotage your own best efforts with lost files, missed deadlines, or excessive self-criticism? The good news is that you’re not lazy, undisciplined, or lacking in willpower, talent or ambition. You just need to learn what’s going on inside your brain, and harness the power of brain science to beat resistance and develop a productive writing habit. In Around the Writer’s Block, Rosanne Bane-- a creativity coach and writing teacher for more than 20 years-- uses the most recent breakthroughs in brain science to help us understand, in simple, clear language, where writing resistance comes from: a fight-or-flight response hard-wired into our brain, which can make us desperate to flee the sources of our anxieties by any means possible. Bane’s three-part plan, which has improved the productivity of thousands of writers, helps you develop new reliable writing habits, rewire the brain’s responses to the anxiety of writing, and turn writing from a source of stress and anxiety into one of joy and personal growth.

The Ambitious Writer’s Guide to Editing and Proofreading

The Ambitious Writer’s Guide to Editing and Proofreading
Author: Katie Klein
Publisher: Katie Klein Books
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2022-03-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:
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If writing is like the act of chipping away the rock until you find the stone you’re looking for, then editing is the cutting and polishing it takes to make that rock sparkle. Fiction. Non-fiction. Romance. Memoir. Horror. Picture Books. Writers of any style, genre, or audience can take their writing from good to great with a strong editing process in place. The Ambitious Writer’s Guide to Editing and Proofreading (and Ensuring Your Writing is Audience-Ready) is designed for the serious writer who wants to learn more about the difference between editing and proofreading, the different levels (or lenses) of the editing process, how to locate common sentence structure and word errors, and editing/proofreading strategies that will guide them through the revision process. From those big-picture developmental edits to mechanics proofreading (which requires a keen eye for and attention to detail), with the right strategies, you can become your own best editor. Keywords: editing, proofreading, 1-hour reads, writing, writing reference, authorship, writing skills

Writing the Australian Crawl

Writing the Australian Crawl
Author: William Stafford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1978
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:
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Stafford's advice to beginning poets has become a favorite text in writing programs

HowExpert Guide to Stand-Up Comedy

HowExpert Guide to Stand-Up Comedy
Author: HowExpert
Publisher: HowExpert
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2024-08-06
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1962386929
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If you’ve ever dreamed of making people laugh and captivating audiences with your unique brand of humor, then "HowExpert Guide to Stand-Up Comedy" is the ultimate resource to help you achieve your comedy goals. This comprehensive guide covers every aspect of stand-up comedy, from crafting your first joke to building a successful comedy career, ensuring you have all the tools you need to succeed on and off the stage. Chapter Descriptions: 1. Introduction - Dive into the world of stand-up comedy, exploring its rich history, societal role, and how to make the most of this guide. 2. Understanding Comedy - Discover what makes something funny, explore different types of humor, and learn the psychology behind laughter and timing. 3. Developing Your Comic Persona - Find your unique comedic voice, create a relatable stage persona, and understand how to connect with your audience. 4. Writing Jokes and Material - Master the basics of joke structure, crafting punchlines, and developing routines that resonate with diverse audiences. 5. Rehearsing and Refining Your Act - Learn the importance of practice, techniques for memorizing material, and using feedback to hone your performance. 6. Performing on Stage - Overcome stage fright, master microphone technique, and engage with your audience while handling disruptions like a pro. 7. Advanced Techniques and Strategies - Expand your comedic material through improvisation, crowd work, and fluid movement strategies. 8. Getting Started - Navigate the world of open mics, local gigs, and networking to kickstart your comedy career and build a professional portfolio. 9. Marketing and Promoting Yourself - Create a personal brand, leverage social media, and manage your online presence to build a dedicated fan base. 10. The Business Side of Comedy - Understand contracts, manage finances, work with agents, and book gigs while navigating the entertainment industry. 11. Diversifying Your Skills - Write for television and film, create podcasts or YouTube channels, and collaborate with other artists to expand your horizons. 12. Practical Advice for Comedians - Gain practical tips for overcoming challenges, balancing comedy with life, and learning from the comedy circuit. 13. Balancing Comedy and Life - Manage your time effectively, handle travel and tours, and maintain your mental and physical health as a comedian. 14. Staying Motivated - Find daily inspiration, overcome writer's block, and set long-term career goals to stay motivated in your comedy journey. 15. The Future of Stand-Up Comedy - Explore trends and innovations in comedy, the impact of technology, and how to adapt to changing audiences. 16. Conclusion - Reflect on your comedy journey, receive encouragement, and get final tips for success as you take the next steps in your career. 17. Appendices - Access essential resources, including books, websites, courses, festivals, sample scripts, terminology, recommended media, performance venues, online platforms, and mental health support for comedians. If you’re ready to become a confident, captivating, and successful stand-up comedian, then "HowExpert Guide to Stand-Up Comedy" is your go-to resource. With this essential handbook, you’ll be equipped to make audiences laugh and achieve your comedy dreams on and off the stage. Grab your copy today and start your journey to making the world laugh! HowExpert publishes how to guides on all topics from A to Z.

Perennial Seller

Perennial Seller
Author: Ryan Holiday
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2017-07-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 110199214X
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The book that Inc. says "every entrepreneur should read" and an FT Book of the Month selection... How did the movie The Shawshank Redemption fail at the box office but go on to gross more than $100 million as a cult classic? How did The 48 Laws of Power miss the bestseller lists for more than a decade and still sell more than a million copies? How is Iron Maiden still filling stadiums worldwide without radio or TV exposure forty years after the band was founded? Bestselling author and marketer Ryan Holiday calls such works and artists perennial sellers. How do they endure and thrive while most books, movies, songs, video games, and pieces of art disappear quickly after initial success? How can we create and market creative works that achieve longevity? Holiday explores this mystery by drawing on his extensive experience working with businesses and creators such as Google, American Apparel, and the author John Grisham, as well as his interviews with the minds behind some of the greatest perennial sellers of our time. His fascinating examples include: • Rick Rubin, producer for Adele, Jay-Z, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who teaches his artists to push past short-term thinking and root their work in long-term inspiration. • Tim Ferriss, whose books have sold millions of copies, in part because he rigorously tests every element of his work to see what generates the strongest response. • Seinfeld, which managed to capture both the essence of the nineties and timeless themes to become a modern classic. • Harper Lee, who transformed a muddled manuscript into To Kill a Mockingbird with the help of the right editor and feedback. • Winston Churchill, Stefan Zweig, and Lady Gaga, who each learned the essential tenets of building a platform of loyal, dedicated supporters. Holiday reveals that the key to success for many perennial sellers is that their creators don’t distinguish between the making and the marketing. The product’s purpose and audience are in the creator’s mind from day one. By thinking holistically about the relationship between their audience and their work, creators of all kinds improve the chances that their offerings will stand the test of time.

The 12 Week Year for Writers

The 12 Week Year for Writers
Author: A. Trevor Thrall
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2021-09-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119817439
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Get more words on the page with this proven and popular system The 12 Week Year for Writers: A Comprehensive Guide to Getting Your Writing Done is an easy-to-implement and practical framework for writers to get more work done in less time. You’ll answer big picture questions—What is my vision for the future? What are my writing goals?—while enacting a comprehensive system to plan and execute your writing. You’ll create a 12 Week Plan and a Model Week, collaborate with a weekly writing group, keep score, and learn to stick to a weekly execution routine. The book will also show you how to: Manage multiple writing projects at the same time Develop a prolific writer’s mindset and increase your output with the 12 Week Year system Deal with actionable specifics, like when and where to write Ideal for writers in all genres and fields, The 12 Week Year for Writers is the perfect hands-on guide for academic and business writers, authors, students, columnists, bloggers, and copy and content writers who seek to increase their productivity and get more quality words on the page.

Stone Of Fire

Stone Of Fire
Author: J. F. Penn
Publisher: Curl Up Press via PublishDrive
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2017-07-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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An ancient power. A desperate quest. The clock is ticking. When psychologist and religious expert Dr. Morgan Sierra's sister and niece are kidnapped, she's thrust into a deadly race against time to find twelve ancient stones that could unleash unimaginable power. With only days until Pentecost and the kidnapper's deadline, Morgan must use all her knowledge and resources to track down the artifacts. She's not alone in the hunt. Jake Timber, an enigmatic agent of ARKANE, a secret British agency investigating the supernatural, has his own orders to retrieve the stones at any cost. Torn between her desperate need to save her family and Jake's mission to secure the stones, lines blur as Morgan and Jake forge an uneasy partnership. From the holy sites of Israel and the Vatican to the desert of Tunisia and the Sonoran wilderness of Arizona, Morgan and Jake face sinister forces, ancient traps, and a fanatical enemy determined to use the stones' power for their own dark purposes. Danger, betrayal and a growing attraction complicate their quest. With Pentecost approaching and a storm of apocalyptic proportions brewing, Morgan must confront her past and unearth long-buried secrets to have any hope of saving her family and preventing global catastrophe. Emotions run high and faith is tested as the clock ticks down. Can Morgan stop the stones from falling into the wrong hands, or will she have to choose between saving her family and saving the world? Fast-paced and gripping, Stone of Fire is a thrilling adventure that weaves together history, archaeology, and the supernatural into a pulse-pounding race against time. Perfect for fans of Dan Brown, James Rollins, and Steve Berry, this action-packed novel will keep you turning pages late into the night. Stone of Fire is book 1 of the ARKANE Thriller series by award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, J.F. Penn. It can also be read as a stand-alone story.

The No-Bullshit Guide to Succeeding in Culinary School

The No-Bullshit Guide to Succeeding in Culinary School
Author: Kim Brauer
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2015-11-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781516866274
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Culinary school is a big investment and a big time commitment. This no-bullshit guide will help you get the most out of school, and launch into a rad professional cooking career. We'll start with basics, like how to pull your kit (and all the other start-of-school shit) together. How to quickly establish competence and confidence, so you can start learning fast and effectively. Then we'll talk strategy:- Why do you need a SWAT team? And what the hell is a SWAT team anyway? - Your instructors will teach everyone, but mentor just a few. How do you become one of those students? - What do you need to know to kick ass in both the classroom and the culinary school kitchen? - What steps can you take now that will help you build a solid foundation for a kick-ass professional cooking career? This is not a boring goddamn textbook - you'll have plenty of those soon enough. It's a ninja-level tactical field guide, full of crass language and kitchen humor. If you want to kick ass in school and beyond, read this no-bullshit book."With its frank discussion of the pros and cons of culinary school, Kim's guide is like the Grim Reaper, killing your misconceptions about the professional kitchen with fair but ruthless efficiency."- The Surly Gourmand"This language is appalling! You have to take out all of these swear words." - My Mom"Maybe just take out half the f**ks." - My Dad

Big Red Tequila

Big Red Tequila
Author: Rick Riordan
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2013-01-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0804151938
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series Everything in Texas is bigger . . . even murder. Meet Tres Navarre—tequila drinker, Tai Chi master, and unlicensed P.I., with a penchant for Texas-size trouble. Jackson “Tres” Navarre and his enchilada-eating cat, Robert Johnson, pull into San Antonio and find nothing waiting but trouble. Ten years ago Navarre left town and the memory of his father’s murder behind him. Now he’s back, looking for answers. Yet the more Tres digs, trying to put his suspicions to rest, the fresher the decade-old crime looks: Mafia connections, construction site payoffs, and slick politicians’ games all conspire to ruin his homecoming. It’s obvious Tres has stirred up a hornet’s nest of trouble. He gets attacked, shot at, run over by a big blue Thunderbird—and his old girlfriend, the one he wants back, is missing. Tres has to rescue the woman, nail his father’s murderer, and get the hell out of Dodge before mob-style Texas justice catches up to him. The chances of staying alive looked better for the defenders of the Alamo. “Riordan writes so well about the people and topography of his Texas hometown that he quickly marks the territory as his own.”—Chicago Tribune Don’t miss any of these hotter-than-Texas-chili Tres Navarre novels: BIG RED TEQUILA • THE WIDOWER’S TWO-STEP • THE LAST KING OF TEXAS • THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO AUSTIN • SOUTHTOWN • MISSION ROAD • REBEL ISLAND