The Writer's Notebook

The Writer's Notebook
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

The Writer's Notebook offers aspiring authors the most enlightening and engaging seminars and essays from some of Tin House's favorite writers. Jim Shepard, Aimee Bender, Steve Almond, Antonya Nelson and others break down specific elements of craft and share insights into the joys and pains of their own writing.

A Writer's Notebook

A Writer's Notebook
Author: Ralph Fletcher
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2010-08-24
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0062014935

Tap into your inner writer with this book of practical advice by the bestselling author of How Writers Work and the ALA Notable Book Fig Pudding. Writers are just like everyone else—except for one big difference. Most people go through life experiencing daily thoughts and feelings, noticing and observing the world around them. But writers record these thoughts and observations. They react. And they need a special place to record those reactions. Perfect for classrooms, A Writer’s Notebook gives budding writers a place to keep track of all the little things they notice every day. Young writers will love these useful tips for how to use notes and jottings to create stories and poems of their own.

Notebook Know-how

Notebook Know-how
Author: Aimee Elizabeth Buckner
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1571104135

Presents tips for elementary and middle school teachers on how to use writing notebooks to help students develop skills and habits associated with good writing.

The Essential Writer's Notebook

The Essential Writer's Notebook
Author:
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2005-09
Genre: Authorship
ISBN: 9780880882439

This beautiful notebook, illustrated by the author's own paintings, provides the perfect opportunity for would-be writers, as well as those seeking a fresh approach to their work, to learn simple techniques that will help them master the basics of the craft. Inspired by the philosophy of Zen Buddhism, the book provides a complete step-by-step mini-course on how to write clearly and powerfully. Abundant lined pages can be used for writing practice.

The Writer's Notebook II

The Writer's Notebook II
Author: Christopher Beha
Publisher: Tin House Books
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012-10-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1935639463

The Writer's Notebook II offers aspiring authors sixteen insightful essays about the craft of writing by Tin House authors and summer workshop faculty members, including Aimee Bender, Steve Almond, Maggie Nelson, Karen Russell, Benjamin Percy, and others. The Writer's Notebook II continues in the tradition of The Writer's Notebook, featuring essays based on craft seminars from the Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop, as well as a variety of craft essays from Tin House magazine contributors and Tin House Books authors. The collection includes essays that not only examine important craft aspects such as humor, suspense, and research but that also explore creating fractured and nonrealist narratives and the role of dream in fiction. An engaging and enlightening read, The Writer's Notebook II is both a toolkit and an inspiration for any writer. The Writer’s Notebook II offers aspiring authors sixteen insightful essays about the craft of writing by Tin House authors and summer workshop faculty members, including Aimee Bender, Steve Almond, Maggie Nelson, Karen Russell, Benjamin Percy, and others.

The Writer's Notebook

The Writer's Notebook
Author: Howard Junker
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1995
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Even award-winning writers begin with notes scrawled on the backs of old bills, on hotel stationery, and in spiral-bound notebooks. These humble beginnings are often awkward, halting, and unliterary. And they are usually kept private. Here sixteen acclaimed contemporary writers open their notebooks to reveal the first stages of their creative process.

Writing Radar

Writing Radar
Author: Jack Gantos
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2017-08-29
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0374304564

Acclaimed author Jack Gantos's guide to becoming the best brilliant writer.

Writers and Their Notebooks

Writers and Their Notebooks
Author: Diana M. Raab
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1611179939

Personal reflections on the vital role of the notebook in creative writing, from Dorianne Laux, Sue Grafton, John Dufresne, Kyoko Mori, and more. This collection of essays by established professional writers explores how their notebooks serve as their studios and workshops—places to collect, to play, and to make new discoveries with language, passions, and curiosities. For these diverse writers, the journal also serves as an ideal forum to develop their writing voice, whether crafting fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. Some include sample journal entries that have since developed into published pieces. Through their individual approaches to keeping a notebook, the contributors offer valuable advice, personal recollections, and a hearty endorsement of the value of using notebooks to document, develop, and nurture a writer’s creative spark.

Writer's Notebook

Writer's Notebook
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 85
Release: 1991-10-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9780749304331

From 1892, when he was 18, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. Part autobiographical, part confessional, this is a collection of Maugham's observations, confidences, aspirations and arbitrary jottings.

The Writer Within You

The Writer Within You
Author: Charles Jacobs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Provides information for older authors on coming up with ideas, writing fiction and non-fiction books, publishing and marketing a book, and writing and submitting magazine articles.