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Storyville!: An Illustrated Guide to Writing Fiction

Author : John Dufresne
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393608417
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Storyville!: An Illustrated Guide to Writing Fiction written by John Dufresne and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A smart and funny guide to writing fiction, with engaging infographics that bring storytelling techniques to life. Whether you are daunted by a blinking cursor or frustrated trying to get the people in your head onto the page, writing stories can be intimidating. It takes passion, tenacity, patience, and a knowledge of?and faith in?the often-digressive writing process. A do-it-yourself manual for the apprentice fiction writer, Storyville! demystifies that process; its bold graphics take you inside the writer’s comfortingly chaotic mind and show you how stories are made. In Storyville!, seasoned guide John Dufresne?whose approach “will anchor the newbie and entertain the veteran” (San Francisco Chronicle)?provides practical insight into the building blocks of fiction, including how to make the reader see your characters, create a suspenseful plot, and revise, revise, revise. Storyville! is a combination handbook and notebook, with original prompts and exercises crafted with Dufresne’s singular dry wit and Evan Wondolowski’s playful and illuminating graphics on every page.

Storyville!

Author : John Dufresne
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393608409
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Storyville! written by John Dufresne and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A smart and funny guide to writing fiction, with engaging infographics that bring storytelling techniques to life. Whether you are daunted by a blinking cursor or frustrated trying to get the people in your head onto the page, writing stories can be intimidating. It takes passion, tenacity, patience, and a knowledge of?and faith in?the often-digressive writing process. A do-it-yourself manual for the apprentice fiction writer, Storyville! demystifies that process; its bold graphics take you inside the writer’s comfortingly chaotic mind and show you how stories are made. In Storyville!, seasoned guide John Dufresne?whose approach “will anchor the newbie and entertain the veteran” (San Francisco Chronicle)?provides practical insight into the building blocks of fiction, including how to make the reader see your characters, create a suspenseful plot, and revise, revise, revise. Storyville! is a combination handbook and notebook, with original prompts and exercises crafted with Dufresne’s singular dry wit and Evan Wondolowski’s playful and illuminating graphics on every page.

Flash Fiction America: 73 Very Short Stories

Author : James Thomas
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393358038
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Flash Fiction America: 73 Very Short Stories written by James Thomas and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spectacular new anthology of the best short-short fiction from across the United States. It has been more than thirty years since the term “flash fiction” was first coined, perfectly describing the power in the brevity of these stories, each under 1,000 words. Since then, the form has taken hold in the American imagination. For this latest installment in the popular Flash Fiction series, James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, and John Dufresne have searched far and wide for the most distinctive American voices in short-short fiction. The 73 stories collected here speak to the diversity of the American experience and range from the experimental to the narrative, from the whimsical to the gritty. Featuring fiction from writers both established and new, including Aimee Bender, K-Ming Chang, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Bryan Washington, Robert Scotellaro, and Luis Alberto Urrea, Flash Fiction America is a brilliant collection, radiating creativity and bringing together some of the most compelling and exciting contemporary writers in the United States.

Writing the Novella

Author : Sharon Oard Warner
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826362567
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Writing the Novella written by Sharon Oard Warner and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A novella compresses the world with a short story’s focus, but it explores that smaller space with a novel’s generosity.”—Josh Weil, author of The New Valley: Novellas While the novella has existed as a distinct literary form for over four hundred years, Writing the Novella is the first craft book dedicated to creating this intermediate-length fiction. Innovative, integrated journal prompts inspire and sustain the creative process, and classic novellas serve as examples throughout. Part 1 defines the novella form and steers early decision-making on situation, character, plot, and point of view. Part 2 provides detailed directions for writing the scenic plot points that support a strong but flexible narrative arc. Appendix materials include a list of recommended novellas, publishing opportunities, and blank templates for the story map, graphs, and charts used throughout the book. By turns instructive and inspirational, Writing the Novella will be a welcome resource for new and experienced writers alike.

Lendercide

Author : Allen Madding
Publisher : Charm House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780578860374
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Lendercide written by Allen Madding and published by Charm House Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whose turn will it be next?In her work as a loan processor at Sunshine City Bank in Saint Petersburg, Colleen Smithwick has always found it hard to cope with the increasing pressures of work-suffering myopic and tyrannical loan officers while grinding through unreasonable deadlines. She plays the part of a committed wife well, but a restlessness weighs heavy on her mind. When murders of two high-officials rock the bank, Colleen becomes enamored with the lead detective investigating the case.It's Detective Gary Black's job to see the risk in every situation, but he is unaware of the danger surrounding his own life. Since the time he first met Colleen, he has felt a strange attraction for her, the attraction that leads him into a world of dark secrets, throwing him into the path of a psychopathic killer. He must do whatever it takes to solve the case. That is, if he can stay ahead in the game.Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this devilishly gripping thriller, nothing is what it seems on the surface.

Smokescreen

Author : Kevin A. Sabet
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1948677881
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Smokescreen written by Kevin A. Sabet and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the leading authority on marijuana—a man who has served as White House advisor on drugs to three different administrations and who NBC News once called “the prodigy of drug politics"—comes the remarkable and shocking exposé about how 21st century pot, today’s new and highly potent form of the drug, is on the rise, spreading rapidly across America by an industry intent on putting rising profits over public health. Smokescreen: What the Marijuana Industry Doesn't Want You to Know examines the inside story behind the headlines, containing accounts from Sabet’s time in the Obama administration to stunning revelations from whistleblowers speaking out for the first time. What it finds is how the marijuana industry is running rampant without proper oversight, leaving Americans’ health seriously at risk. Included are interviews with industry insiders who reveal the hidden dangers of a product they had once worshipped. Also contained in these pages are insights from a major underground-market dealer who admits that legalization is hastening the growth of the illicit drug trade. And more to the heart of the issue are the tragic stories of those who have suffered and died as a result of marijuana use, and in many cases, as a result of its mischaracterization. Readers will learn how power brokers worked behind the scenes to market marijuana as a miracle plant in order to help it gain widespread acceptance and to set the stage for the lucrative expansion of recreational pot. The author of this compelling first-person narrative leading the national fight against the legalization of cannabis through his nonprofit, Smart Approaches to Marijuana (aka SAM) is Kevin Sabet. As a policy advisor to everyone from county health commissioners to Pope Francis, and a frequent public speaker on television, radio and through other media outlets, his analysis is consistently relied upon by those who recognize what’s at stake as marijuana lobbyists downplay the risks of massive commercialization. A book several years in the making, filled with vivid characters and informed by hundreds of interviews and scores of confidential documents, Sabet's Smokescreen lays bare the unvarnished truth about marijuana in America.

Strange Tales #9 (Pulp Magazine Edition)

Author : Robert M. Price
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1557424527
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Strange Tales #9 (Pulp Magazine Edition) written by Robert M. Price and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special edition of Strange Tales #9 is presented in the original magazine's dimensions. In addition to great work by Hugh B. Cave, L. Sprague de Camp, and many more, this edition adds "The Devil's Crypt," a novelet by E. Hoffmann Price.

The Surface of Water

Author : Cynthia Beach
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 1514007541
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Surface of Water written by Cynthia Beach and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only person who can uncover his secret has arrived. Matthew Goodman is tired, and his one wish is for something he can't have. Instead he focuses on the demands of his work as pastor of Chicagoland's Calvary Community, including bringing a new administrative assistant onboard. New hire twenty-five-year-old Trish Card watches him with somber, lake-clear eyes. What he doesn't know about Trish and her real reason for appearing will dismantle his world. The Surface of Water is about a megachurch pastor, a famous evangelist's son, living in a world beyond his control. It's also a story about a young woman trying to understand her complicated life. In the #ChurchToo era, this novel invites readers to see life's shadowed edges—isolation, power, and abuse—illumined by the light of truth.

What's Your Story?

Author : Marion Dane Bauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book What's Your Story? written by Marion Dane Bauer and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how to write fiction, exploring such aspects as character, plot, point of view, dialogue, endings, and revising.

Idol Worship

Author : Michael Ferguson
Publisher : STARbooks Press
ISBN 13 : 1891855484
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Idol Worship written by Michael Ferguson and published by STARbooks Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with over 120 beautiful photos, this is the year's best guide to the leading men whose looks have made them the objects of intense fantasy and desire. Included is a text that will flesh out the pin-ups, featuring career highlights, brief bios and queer takes on more than 90 pretty boy actors from the silent era to today, plus a definitive list of more than 750 actors along with a representative film title of where to catch them at their hottest.

Storyville

Author : Joshua Gaylord
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781495930713
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Storyville written by Joshua Gaylord and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is commonly said that the best way to learn how to write is to read-and vice versa. Robert Heinlein once said, "writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." In this course we did not keep writing private, rather we brought it forward in order to learn from it.

The Watershed Project

Author : David Norman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684337224
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book The Watershed Project written by David Norman and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the pastor of an evangelical church hires a new keyboardist to take his congregation electric, things get weird in a hurry. Objects go missing-paint buckets, Bibles, pieces of the stage, and even the neighborhood dog. Worse, Pastor Zacharias Hembrey himself goes missing the night he's abducted by members of a cartel who've chosen his church as a front for their drug smuggling operation. While the congregants suspect the new keyboardist is behind the illegal activity, Pastor Zacharias refuses to admit how much his own daughter might be involved. Alternately told from the perspective of the pastor's daughter, Elizabeth, and from Pastor Zacharias, The Watershed Project is a southern literary novel about the limits of faith, the struggle for meaning in a corrupt, dispirited town, and the lengths to which one father will go to reconcile with his rebellious teenage daughter.

The Illustrated Compendium of Ugly English Words

Author : Tyler Vendetti
Publisher : Whalen Book Works
ISBN 13 : 1732512639
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book The Illustrated Compendium of Ugly English Words written by Tyler Vendetti and published by Whalen Book Works. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the words that make people gag and cover their ears. Too long have these atrocious utterances gone unrecognized, nay, shunned from society. No longer! The Illustrated Compendium of Ugly English Words pays homage to the 300 worst words in existence, such as: Amazeballs (noun): The public’s opinion on this word can be perfectly encapsulated by a recent Slate article titled “Who coined amazeballs and why do they hate humanity?” Chunky (adjective): Chunky (meaning “lumpy”) is a word so vile, it can make even the most pleasant image sound disgusting. Let’s try. Chunky flower. Chunky chocolate milk. Chunky Jonathan Van Ness. See? Moist (adjective): Slightly or moderately wet; damp; the linguistic equivalent of stepping in a lukewarm puddle in socks and feeling the water ooze between your toes with every step thereafter. Rural (adjective): Meaning “of the countryside,” rural’s definition is not actually gross. Its foulness stems more from its pronunciation, which forces the speaker to make a noise akin to the grunt of a zombie. Worm (noun): Any type of burrowing, elongated invertebrate with a soft, limbless body. (Is that a description of a real creature or a monster from a nightmare video game? Hard to say.) What makes these words ugly? It’s the nature of the word’s meaning, the pre-existing association the reader has with the word, or the sound and look of the word—or all three! The Illustrated Compendium of Ugly English Words catalogues the ugliness from A to Z, along with each word’s pronunciation guide, definition, and origin, plus quotes demonstrating usage. Illustrations on nearly every page of this hardcover make it both a hilarious reference book and the ideal gift for anyone who can’t stand the sound of words like acrid, panties, gubernatorial, ointment, and squirt. More than anything, though, this compendium can be used as a reminder that, despite all of our differences, deep down we all share the same hopes, the same dreams, and the same primal hatred for the terms that make us go, “Ugh, why would you even say that?!” Proceed at your own risk!

Coming Through Slaughter

Author : Michael Ondaatje
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307776611
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Coming Through Slaughter written by Michael Ondaatje and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of that time and place. In this fictionalized meditation, Bolden, an unrecorded father of Jazz, remains throughout a tantalizingly ungraspable phantom, the central mysteries of his life, his art, and his madness remaining felt but never quite pinned down. Ondaatje's prose is at times startlingly lyrical, and as he chases Bolden through documents and scenes, the novel partakes of the very best sort of modern detective novel--one where the enigma is never resolved, but allowed to manifest in its fullness. Though more 'experimental' in form than either The English Patient or In the Skin of a Lion, it is a fitting addition to the renowned Ondaatje oeuvre.

The Kids' Guide to Writing Fiction

Author : Laurisa White Reyes
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530511945
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book The Kids' Guide to Writing Fiction written by Laurisa White Reyes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are all storytellers. Whether weaving mythologies in ancient times or describing the plot of a favorite movie today, humans have, since the beginning of time, loved to tell stories. In THE KIDS' GUIDE TO WRITING FICTION, students explore the building blocks needed to construct a story: characterization, setting, plot, perspective, imagery, and dialog. Then they will use these building blocks to create their own stories.

The Complete Guide to Writing Fiction

Author : Barnaby Conrad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Guide to Writing Fiction written by Barnaby Conrad and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Although this book won't automatically make you into a Welty or a Steinbeck or a Fitzgerald, it does contain the helpful advice, mechanics, and tips to help you extract the stories that are within you. The love of words, the heart, the passion, the compassion, and the stardust must come from you." From the bookjacket.

The Sound of the String

Author : Brad Isham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615557458
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book The Sound of the String written by Brad Isham and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sound Of The String is the winner of the 2012 NABE Pinnacle Award for Best Adventure Novel. Set in the beauty of the African bush, Gordon Bradford's journey ushers him to the emotional and spiritual reckonings of both people and animals. Men and women will share the insight, build from its lessons, good and bad, and will be closer from the triumphs and failures of the characters. With a handmade longbow and a duffle bag Gordon discovers Africa...and more. His first safari leads to more as his spiritual connection with the land, people, and wildlife evolves. He discovers ethereal connections with the animals he pursues and learns from their perspectives the balance of the bushveld, for predator and prey. Gordon is mentored by the sage wisdom of Moses, an elderly black man whose early years were spent in racially torn South Africa. He shares in the lives of the people in a remote bush camp and helps as they defend themselves from baboons, poachers, and an angry mob from a neighboring village that attack the camp. His friendship builds with his guide and Professional Hunter, Lucas, while finding he is falling in love with Lucas' wife, Lise. Sabotage and subterfuge between Gordon and Lucas is hidden behind their professional and personal relationships as they attempt their most dangerous hunt together for Cape buffalo. During the hunt there is a touching story of the last days of Dagga Boy, an old Cape buffalo, as he is cast from his herd. He travels only with his guardian, Askari, and passes his life's lessons to the young bull as they navigate the dangers of the bushveld to find water and stay alive. The buffalo and hunters find themselves at the same water hole for a thrilling end which leaves one of them dead, one desperately alone, and the others spinning in clouds of their own conspiracy. As lies are exposed, lives are left in tatters. The Sound of the String captures the setting and appeals to the senses. It summons the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and touch of Africa. It brings its readers into the bushveld and leaves them immersed.