Negotiating with the Dead
A Writer on Writing
Margaret Atwood
What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the...
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer within
Natalie Goldberg
With insight, humour, and practicality, Natalie Goldberg inspires writers and would-be writers to take the leap into writing skilfully and creatively. She offers suggestions, encouragement, and solid advice...
The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry
Julia Bell and Andrew Motion
The success of the writing courses at UEA belies the myth that writing can't be taught. This coursebook takes aspiring writers through three stages of practice: Gathering -...
How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author
Janet Evanovich
How many people would kill to be a bestselling novelist? Especially one like Janet Evanovich. Writers want to know how a bestselling author thinks, writes, plans, and dreams...
Writing from Life: How to Turn Your Personal Experience into Profitable Prose
Lynne Hackles
This book will show how your own personal experiences can provide you with an endless supply of ideas for your writing - whether fiction or non-fiction. You will...
The Five-minute Writer: Exercise and Inspiration in Creative Writing in Five Minutes a Day
Margret Geraghty
This book will inspire you to write, even if you have only a few minutes to spare. It may also change the way you think about writing. Drawing...
Eats Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Lynne Truss
Everyone knows the basics of punctuation, surely? Aren't we all taught at school how to use full stops, commas and question marks? And yet we see ignorance and...
How to Write a Thriller
Scott Mariani
This book is designed to help aspiring thriller writers to create exciting, suspenseful novels and to give you the best chance of getting your work published and into...
Becoming a Writer
Dorothea Brande
Describes a writer's temperament and how to develop a writer's habits, originality, and insight, imitate exemplary works, read critically, and overcome writing difficulties. This guide to becoming a...
The Weekend Novelist Writes a Mystery
Robert Joseph Ray, Robert J. Robert and Jack Remick
Authors Robert J. Ray and Jack Remick guide you through the entire mystery-writing process, from creating a killer to polishing off the final draft. Each weekend you'll focus...
On Writing
A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King
Find out what books and films influenced the young writer, his first idea for a story and the true life tale that inspired CARRIE. For the first time,...
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I would like to add Lazette Gifford's Writing Science fiction, it joins the Aber list with Kate Walker's guide to writing romance and Steve Wetton's guide to writing tv scripts
I would like to add two books on life writing that I have found particularly inspiring: Sarah Haslam and Derek Neale, Life Writing, Open University/Routledge, 2009 and the Arvon Foundation's splendid new book: The Arvon Book of Life Writing: writing biography, autobiography and memoir.
I need help on how to start a writing club for children of age 8 and above.This is a very srtong passion and my daughter loves writing.What do i do to help her and other children in her category?
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