Writing Action - A Book of Writing Prompts by Grotto San Francisco Writers
$19.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | Series: Lit Starts Ser.
A fill-in book from the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, authors of the best-selling 642 Things series. Focus on a single aspect of the craft of writing with help from the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. Writing Action kicks off with a foreword by an award-winning author and journalist Bonnie Tsui, who off ...Show more
The Right to Write : An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life by Julia Cameron
$30.00 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
"We should write because it is human nature to write" - Julia Cameron Here are techniques and illustrative stories to help you make writing a natural, intensely personal part of life.
READING AUSTRALIAN POETRY THIS CENTURY by LEONARD JOHN
$24.00 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
In a time of peak quality in Australian poetry, and of too little reading of it, John Leonard asks: what is to be done?
The Illustrated Compendium of Ugly English Words by Tyler Vendetti; Rebecca Pryce (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | Series: Illustrated Compendium Ser.
Behold the 300 Ugliest Words in the English Language J. R. R. Tolkien once said that cellar door is the most beautiful phrase in the English language; since then it has received quite a bit of attention from poets and linguists. But what of the ugly words? This delightfully humorous volume celebrates th ...Show more
The Writing Book: A Practical Guide for Fiction Writers by Kate Grenville
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
From the acclaimed author of The Secret River, a completely practical workbook that offers down-to-earth ideas and suggestions for writers or aspiring writers to get started and keep going Full of ideas and examples to get pen to paper or fingers on the keyboard, this guidedoesn't just talk about how to ...Show more
The Art of Revision - The Last Word by Peter Ho Davies
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | Series: Art Of... Ser.
The fifteenth volume in the Art of series takes an expansive view of revision--on the page and in life In The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies takes up an often discussed yet frequently misunderstood subject. He begins by addressing the invisibility of revision--even though it's an es ...Show more
Beyond the Hero’s Journey: A screenwriting guide for when you’ve got a different story to tell by Anthony Mullins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
Telling a story is simple, right? You take a ‘hero’ character and send them on a ‘journey’. There’s a beginning, middle and an end.But what if your story doesn’t fit into that basic structure? In Beyond the Hero’s Journey, BAFTA award-winning screenwriter, Anthony Mullins presents an accessible, versati ...Show more
How to Grow Your Own Poem by Kate Clanchy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | Reading Level: very good
Do you want to write a poem? This book will show you 'how to grow your own poem' . . . Kate Clanchy has been teaching people to write poetry for more than twenty years. Some were old, some were young; some were fluent English speakers, some were not. None of them were confident to start with, but a sur ...Show more
On Patrick White: Writers on Writers by Christos Tsiolkas
$17.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | Series: Writers on Writers
'Patrick White, the un-Australian writer who did more than any other writer in the twentieth century to create an imaginative language that we can call Australian, who unshackled us from the demand that we write as the English do, who recognised, through his own alienation and also through his profound ...Show more
The Little Red Writing Book by Mark Tredinnick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
"The Little Red Writing Book" is a book on technique, style, craft and manners for everyone who writes and wants to do it better. It is a manual of good diction, composition, sentence craft, paragraph design, structure and planning. Enriched by examples of fine prose from great writers including Tim Win ...Show more
A Writer's Year - 365 Creative Writing Prompts by Emma Bastow
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
Develop regular creative writing practice with this interactive journal, full of simple, witty and playful ideas every writer will enjoy. They say that everyone has a book in them, but who has the time to sit down and find it? This journal, filled with creative writing prompts for every day of the year ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Novels by RUSSELL, HENRY
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Whether you're a regular globe-trotter or an armchair traveller, these 80 works conjure up the spirit of place for locations on every continent. Sometimes the setting of a novel is as important as the story--where would Dickens be without London, or Edith Wharton without New York? Who can read Tales of ...Show more