Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Sourcebook

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Sourcebook
Author: David H. Borcherding
Publisher:
Total Pages: 526
Release: 1996
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780898797626

Though they write of the fantastic, writers must work within certain realities. This sourcebook provides detailed market listings including agents and magazines, and gives writing advice including an analysis of novel excerpts.

The Writer’s Digest Sourcebook for Building Believable Characters

The Writer’s Digest Sourcebook for Building Believable Characters
Author: Marc McCutcheon
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2000-10-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Six novelists reveal their approaches to characterization in this guide, which comes with a questionnaire to help writers probe their characters' backgrounds, beliefs, and desires and a "thesaurus" of physical and psychological traits to aid in character development.

The Science Fiction Source Book

The Science Fiction Source Book
Author: David Wingrove
Publisher:
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1984
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

"The science fiction source book" is packed with information about writers, novels, short stories, magazines and works of criticism.

The Writer's Source Book

The Writer's Source Book
Author: Chris Sykes
Publisher: Teach Yourself
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2011-09-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1444136607

Is your creative writing in need of inspiration? Do you need confidence to create watertight plots and believable characters? The Writer's Source Book provides dozens of practical exercises to help you create storylines, craft people and generate ideas, with support and creative insight for every stage. It will give you support in identifying your genre and crafting your work around it, and help you to understand the complexities of plot and character before beginning to create your own. Inspired and inspiring exercises will help you master the structure of your book, story or play, while focused and innovative advise will help those who have run into trouble. This is a technical manual ideal for any writer who needs to build, fix, polish or perfect their storyline.

The Writer's Source Book

The Writer's Source Book
Author: Chris Sykes
Publisher: Teach Yourself
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-09-30
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781444135916

LEARN NEW AND INSPIRING WAYS OF LIFTING YOUR CREATIVE WRITING. Is your creative writing in need of inspiration? Do you need confidence to create watertight plots and believable characters? The Writer's Source Book provides dozens of practical exercises to help you create storylines, craft people and generate ideas, with support and creative insight for every stage. It will give you support in identifying your genre and crafting your work around it, and help you to understand the complexities of plot and character before beginning to create your own. Inspired and inspiring exercises will help you master the structure of your book, story or play, while focused and innovative advise will help those who have run into trouble. This is a technical manual ideal for any writer who needs to build, fix, polish or perfect their storyline. ABOUT THE SERIES The Teach Yourself Creative Writing series helps aspiring authors tell their story. Covering a range of genres from science fiction and romantic novels, to illustrated children's books and comedy, this series is packed with advice, exercises and tips for unlocking creativity and improving your writing. And because we know how daunting the blank page can be, we set up the Just Write online community at tyjustwrite, for budding authors and successful writers to connect and share.

Who's Your Source?

Who's Your Source?
Author: Melissa M. Bender
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2020-03-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 146040680X

While students today have access to more sources of information than ever before, they are not necessarily equipped to make informed judgments about those sources. Teaching students to evaluate sources has become even more challenging in the last year, as issues regarding fake news and “alternative facts” have become a heated matter in conversations taking place in the public sphere. The book will present students with a set of tools that they can use to evaluate any source that they encounter. In addition to learning how to use sources in their writing, students who read Who’s Your Source? will become more savvy consumers of the sources they encounter in their daily lives.

Disability and the Teaching of Writing

Disability and the Teaching of Writing
Author: Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2007-03-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780312447250

Disability and the Teaching of Writing brings together both ground-breaking new work and important foundational texts at the intersection of disability and composition studies. With practical suggestions for applying concepts to the classroom, this sourcebook helps instructors understand the issues involved in not only teaching students with disabilities but in teaching with and about disability as well.

The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan

The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan
Author: Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2014-08-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0231165765

This sourcebook contains more than 160 documents and writings that reflect the development of Taiwanese literature from the early modern period to the twenty-first century. Selections include seminal essays in literary debates, polemics, and other landmark events; interviews, diaries, and letters by major authors; critical and retrospective essays by influential writers, editors, and scholars; transcripts of historical speeches and conferences; literary-society manifestos and inaugural journal prefaces; and governmental policy pronouncements that have significantly influenced Taiwanese literature. These texts illuminate AsiaÕs experience with modernization, colonialism, and postcolonialism; the character of TaiwanÕs Cold War and postÐCold War cultural production; gender and environmental issues; indigenous movements; and the changes and challenges of the digital revolution. TaiwanÕs complex history with Dutch, Spanish, and Japanese colonization; strategic geopolitical position vis-ˆ-vis China, Japan, and the United States; and status as a hub for the East-bound circulation of technological and popular-culture trends make the nation an excellent case study for a richer understanding of East Asian and modern global relations.

Writing Englishness, 1900-1950

Writing Englishness, 1900-1950
Author: Judy Giles
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Total Pages: 285
Release: 1995
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780415114417

What did it mean in the first half of this century to say `I am English?' A Practical Sourcebook on National Identity is a unique collection of extracts from writing of the era, all of which in some way raise this question. Drawn from a wide range of sources including letters, diaries, journalism, fiction, poems, parliamentary speeches and government reports, the volume is divided into five sections: * The Ideas and Ideals of Englishness * Versions of Rural England * War and National Identity * Culture and Englishness * Domestic and Urban Englands The editors provide an introduction to each section and conclude with suggested study activities and further reading. It also contains a chronology and bibliography, completing the framework for study. A Practical Sourcebook on National Identity is a fascinating collection which will not only be essential and accessible reading for students, but will also appeal to anyone who has ever asked what it means to become part of a national identity.