Poetry 101: From Shakespeare and Rupi Kaur to Iambic Pentameter and Blank Verse, Everything You Need to Know about Poetry by Susan Dalzell
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Category: Writing Guides | Series: Adams 101 Ser.
Become a poet and write poetry with ease with help from this clear and simple guide in the popular 101 series. Poetry never goes out of style. An ancient writing form found in civilizations across the world, poetry continues to inform the way we write now, whether we realize it or not--especially i ...Show more
Samuel Johnson : A Biography by Peter Martin
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Category: Writing Guides
Bewigged, muscular and for his day unusually tall, adorned in soiled rumpled clothes, beset by involuntary tics, opinionated, powered in his conversation by a prodigous memory and intellect, Samuel Johnson is one of the greatest figures of English Literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer after ...Show more
The Writer's Journey - 25th Anniversary Edition - Mythic Structure for Writers by Christopher Vogler
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Category: Writing Guides
Originally an influential memo Vogler wrote for Walt Disney Animation executives regarding The Lion King, The Writer's Journey details a twelve-stage, myth-inspired method that has galvanized Hollywood's treatment of cinematic storytelling. A format that once seldom deviated beyond a traditional three-a ...Show more
Orlando (Penguin Classics) by Virginia Woolf; Brenda Lyons (Editor); Sandra Gilbert (Introduction by)
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Category: Writing Guides | Reading Level: near fine
The thrill of reading Virginia Woolf's Orlando is the feeling of looking into a whirlpool just as something utterly extraordinary materializes for the first time: an exhilarating hallucination of surreal and beautiful images that remain in memory long after you put the book down. Orlando has it all: lif ...Show more
Writing Character - A Book of Writing Prompts by San Francisco San Francisco Writers' Grotto; Constance Hale (Foreword by)
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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 Character begins with an essay by author and educator Constance Hale, who offer pointers for o ...Show more
Writing Dialogue - A Book of Writing Prompts by San Francisco San Francisco Writers' Grotto; Shanthi Sekaran (Foreword by)
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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 Dialogue begins a foreword by author and educator Shanthi Sekaran, who offers pointers for cre ...Show more
Have You Eaten Grandma? by Gyles Brandreth
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Category: Writing Guides
The go-to good English guide from the grammar guru himself, Gyles Brandreth . . .__________ Why, like, does everyone keep saying 'like'? Why do apostrophe's keep turning up in the wrong place? Why do we get confused when using foreign phrases - and vice versa? Is it 'may be' or 'maybe'? Should it be ...Show more
Words of a Feather : An Etymological Explanation of Astonishing Word Pairs by Graeme Donald
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Category: Writing Guides
In this quirky and humorous volume, Graeme Donald explores the fascinating links and curious connections between words. While at first these word pairs may appear to have very little in common, owing to years of linguistic shift, their origins can be traced back to the same root. In exploring these etym ...Show more
The Grammar of Fantasy: An Introduction to the Art of Inventing Stories by Gianni Rodari
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Category: Writing Guides
A collection of essays from the visionary storyteller Gianni Rodari about fairy tales and folk tales and their great advantages in teaching creative storytelling. "Rodari grasped children's need to play with life's rules by using the grammar of their own imaginations. They must be encouraged to questio ...Show more