When I Grow Up, I Want to Be a Writer

When I Grow Up, I Want to Be a Writer
Author: Cynthia MacGregor
Publisher: Lobster Press
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2001
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781894222426

"A guide to writing for kids, from journalism to fiction writing, and the different career paths writing can take."

Why I Write

Why I Write
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: Renard Press Ltd
Total Pages: 15
Release: 2021-01-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1913724263

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Welcome to the Writer's Life

Welcome to the Writer's Life
Author: Paulette Perhach
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-08-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1632171511

Learn how to take your work to the next level with this informative guide on the craft, business, and lifestyle of writing With warmth and humor, Paulette Perhach welcomes you into the writer’s life as someone who has once been on the outside looking in. Like a freshman orientation for writers, this book includes an in-depth exploration of all the elements of being a writer—from your writing practice to your reading practice, from your writing craft to the all-important and often-overlooked business of writing. In Welcome to the Writer’s Life, you will learn how to tap into the powers of crowdsourcing and social media to grow your writing career. Perhach also unpacks the latest research on success, gamification, and lifestyle design, demonstrating how you can use these findings to further improve your writing projects. Complete with exercises, tools, checklists, infographics, and behind-the-scenes tips from working writers of all types, this book offers everything you need to jump-start a successful writing life.

When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities

When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities
Author: Chen Chen
Publisher: A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of Am
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781942683339

This award-winning debut interrogates the fragile, inherited ways of approaching love and family from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives.

Seesaw Girl

Seesaw Girl
Author: Linda Sue Park
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 90
Release: 1999
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0395915147

Impatient with the constraints put on her as an aristocratic girl living in Korea during the seventeenth century, twelve-year-old Jade Blossom determines to see beyond her small world.

When I Grow Up

When I Grow Up
Author: Andrew Daddo
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1460702816

The creators of CHECK ON ME and FIRST DAY ask a very important question: What do you want to be when you grow up? The answers are sure to entertain and amuse parents and kids alike! What do you want to be when you grow up? A performer? An astronaut? A secret agent? From the team who brought you FIRST DAY and CHECK ON ME comes a gorgeous and funny picture book about big dreams and even bigger imaginations! Ages 3+ 'Written with just as much enthusiasm and energy as its bright and colourful, varied and visually appetising illustrations, WHEN I GROW UP is fetchingly engaging and brilliantly stupendous. Perfect for classroom discussions' -- CBCA READING TIME

The Gospel of Winter

The Gospel of Winter
Author: Brendan Kiely
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2014-01-21
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1442484918

“In a lyrical and hard-hitting exploration of betrayal and healing, the son of a Connecticut socialite comes to terms with his abuse at the hands of a beloved priest” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). As sixteen-year-old Aidan Donovan’s fractured family disintegrates around him, he searches for solace in a few bumps of Adderall, his father’s wet bar, and the attentions of his local priest, Father Greg—the only adult who actually listens to him. When Christmas hits, Aidan’s world collapses in a crisis of trust when he recognizes the darkness of Father Greg’s affections. He turns to a crew of new friends to help make sense of his life: Josie, the girl he just might love; Sophie, who’s a little wild; and Mark, the charismatic swim team captain whose own secret agonies converge with Aidan’s. The Gospel of Winter maps the ways love can be used as a weapon against the innocent—but can also, in the right hands, restore hope and even faith. Brendan Kiely’s unflinching and courageous debut novel exposes the damage from the secrets we keep and proves that in truth, there is power. And real love.

Grow Up

Grow Up
Author: Ben Brooks
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012-04-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101580437

In this bawdy, raucous, and unabashedly frank novel, youth is certainly not wasted on the young Hailed as "one of the most hilarious and well-observed accounts of teenage debauchery you are ever likely to read" by the trendsetting British lifestyle magazine Dazed & Confused, Ben Brooks's Grow Up is a shocking, stylish, and very modern coming-of-age story. As Jasper J. Wolf careens through high school, his list of to-dos includes: get high with friends, seduce the hottest girl in school, and, last but not least, expose his stepfather as a murderer. But as growing up soon teaches him, what he wants and what he gets are often wildly different—and decidedly unexpected.

The Story Factor

The Story Factor
Author: Annette Simmons
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2006-04-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780465078073

Cover subtitle: Inspiration, influence, and persuasion through the art of storytelling

Girl Warriors

Girl Warriors
Author: Rachel Sarah
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1641603747

"It gives me true hope to read about the phenomenal young women of Girl Warriors. Their fierce commitment to the future of our precious planet is as inspiring as it is vital." —Kate Schatz, New York Times bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z and Rad Women Worldwide 2021 Skipping Stones Honors Book in Nature and Ecology Girl Warriors: How 25 Young Activists Are Saving the Earth& tells the stories of 25 climate leaders under age 25.& They've led hundreds of thousands of people in climate strikes, founded non-profits, given TED talks, and sued their governments. These young eco-activists& present& a hopeful picture of the future of environmentalism These fearless girls and young women from all over the world are standing up to demand change when no one else is.