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Cross-Border Networks in Writing Studies coordinates mixed methods approaches to survey, interview, and case study data to study Canadian writing studies scholars. The authors argue for networked disciplinarity, the notion that ideas arise and flow through intellectual networks that connect scholars not only to one another but to widening networks of human and nonhuman actors. Although the Canadian field is historically rooted in the themes of location...
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The more I've lived life and studied literature, the more it becomes apparent that neither exists in a vacuum. Both literature and life are expressions of the interaction between the Creator and the created.
Writing poetry has been a cathartic process for me all my life. These words you read were never written with the intention of ever been shown to another human being. They are the words of one woman's experience of the human condition in searching...
1043) How to Make Money Blogging: Insider Tips and Tricks That Can Help You Make Money in Less Than 30
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This book explains how to profit from blogging, and how to avoid pitfalls in your writing career. Profiting on the web may sound fascinating to a lot of individuals, yet professional bloggers definitely know it takes a great deal of time and energy to become a successful blogger. In case you're new to blogging, there are a few distinctive ways that you can earn money online in less than 30-days. Believe me, starting out as a new blogger can be somewhat...
1044) Wording Around with Prose: Getting a First Draft out of Your Head and Onto a Page: Wording Around
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During the COVID-19 lockdown in the spring of 2020, poet and creative writing professor Kathy Mac (St. Thomas University, Fredericton) volunteered to teach a free online course called Wording Around with Prose, under the auspices of the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick.Wording Around with Prose: Getting a First Draft Out of Your Head and Onto the Page is taken from her notes of the first half of the seven week course. Covering all sorts of topics...
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90+ Content Ideas for Social Media, Blogs and Online Content: Posts, prompts and repurposing ideas for when your creative juices have all dried up! Struggling to come up with quick & easy social media marketing ideas? I get it. Creating a constant supply of engaging social media posts isn't easy when you're a writer or working from home as a freelancer or running a small business on your own. You can't always afford to hire a social media manager...
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Increase Leads & Profit Elegantly in Only 8 Weeks? Here's How:
Imagine being able to invest more time with your family, friends, exercising, reading, enjoying fresh meals, traveling, or relaxing the best way you know how, instead of wasting your time on the day-to-day things that really aren't moving the needle? What If it wouldn't require you to really learn anything new, and all you need is your existing expertise?
2x #1 International Bestselling...
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Saddle up... it's time to write!
They appear in all sorts of genres, from epic fantasy to the zombie post-apocalypse, but horses can be one of the most difficult topics for authors to get right.
This illustrated guide gives writers a leg up on their fictional equines. You'll find practical tips for crafting authentic equines in your works, avoiding the most common mistakes, and making your four-legged characters gallop right off the page. Included...
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How to polish your novels and short stories —a comprehensive guide including a 170+ tips checklist. In this book we look at: the components of your story; points of view; tenses; the power of three: beginnings, middles, ends; another power of three: characters, settings, plots; conflict and pacing; polishing your writing: 170+ tips for making your writing shine; the layout of your book.
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In First Paragraphs, Donald Newlove presented his personal selection of the winningest openings in world literature. In Painted Paragraphs, he did the same for the best descriptive passages ever written. Now, in Invented Voices, Newlove shares with us his choices for the most convincing, the most entertaining, the most memorable pieces of dialogue ever to hit the page-from novels, short stories, movie scripts, and plays.
Among Newlove's favorites...
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The 'Creative Writing Tutor' scheme provides a lively series of themed booklets that will stimulate your child's imagination and inspire him or her to write in a more interesting way and to achieve better results. The booklets provide 'a tutor' for the child, fun features and stories to read, follow up activities to complete, harder vocabulary to prepare children for more advanced writing and many helpful tips and techniques to improve writing style....
1051) My ABC "Chair" Book
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MY ABC "CHAIR" book is a pictorial early learning book for young children. Each letter of the alphabet is highlighted with selected chair designs from the author's Guinness World Record collection of 3, 000 miniature chairs, (not doll furniture). This collection, with chairs from A-Z, provides a unique learning opportunity, "Chairs with a different purpose: Not for sitting." The first alphabet naming the chair's category is enlarged and colored, to...
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A fresh and provocative picture of what it means to create literature, this collection of Steven Heighton's notes to himself as he writes peeks into the mind of an acclaimed author. The short pieces reveal Heighton's pointed, cutting take on his own work and materialize the musings and meditations that come to him as he scribbles. Offering new perspectives and insights into the creative process, this wholly original book shows what lies outside the...
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There are a lot of books about writing out there. If you're like most writers, you've read them all. But learning how to write (and organize and outline and plot and edit and save the cat and market a breakout book) is one thing. Making and living a sustainable creative life in the face of...everything...is an entirely different matter. To know how to do that, we need to take a look at what goes on between the lines of our lives as writers so that...
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Learn How to Write a Novel by reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone!
Learning how to write a novel is hard, but doing so by studying one of the best-selling, most-beloved novels of all time makes it a lot easier.
In this book, authors and former college professors Scott King and Clark Chamberlain will teach you how to write a novel using Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone as their study guide and example.
Each chapter ends with a collection...
1056) The Jewel Garden
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An elegant and dream-like collection of poetry which takes inspiration from Japanese haiku masters and American Transcendentalists. Experience mountain peaks and mysterious visions. Experience the divine beauty that surrounds us every day.
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You have the world building-now use it to write stories that create lifelong fans and fandoms! “Irresistible World Building for Unforgettable Stories” contains key methods and tips on how to weave your world building into every aspect of your story, from theme to plot to character arcs
-Use writing prompts and exercises to jumpstart your creativity
-Get ideas on how to refresh world building genre tropes while still hitting reader sweet spots
-Learn...
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Presents an overview of informational texts, including the form's purpose, elements, traits, and how it expresses ideas. Original examples illustrate how the writing genre works, and tips are provided to encourage young writers' creativity. Additional features include a table of contents, a glossary of key words and phrases, sources for further research, and introductions to both the author and illustrator. As single paragraphs expand into essays,...
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The 'Creative Writing Tutor' scheme provides a lively series of themed booklets that will stimulate your child's imagination and inspire him or her to write in a more interesting way and to achieve better results. The booklets provide 'a tutor' for the child, fun features and stories to read, follow up activities to complete, harder vocabulary to prepare children for more advanced writing and many helpful tips and techniques to improve writing style....
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Is it possible to write a nonfiction book that changes minds or even changes the world?
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell sold 1.7 million copies in its first year of release, and today remains a perennial bestseller.
What made it go viral?
What made it stick?
On the 20th anniversary of The Tipping Point's publication, two Story Grid editors decided to dissect Gladwell's masterwork to find out what made it a cultural touchstone.
Leslie Watts and...
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