Language Arts & Disciplines

At last A journal and workbook specifically for grownups who write children's books.Award Finalist of the 2017 Best Book Awards.Since most children's writers say they want to write picture books, this journal and workbook is written with you in mind. Writers for older age...

Alexander Sperber was born in what was then the Austrian city of Czernowitz in 1897. As a child, he learned to write German in Hebrew characters, expressing the umlauts precisely by means of diacritical modifications. He received a Gymnasium education in Vienna. In Vienna,...

"There are three rules for writing a book," a famous author once said. "Unfortunately, no one knows what they are " To some extent, the process of writing a book is shrouded in mystery. Writing the Christian Nonfiction Book: Concept to Contract takes the...

Women, Writing, and Soul-Making: Creativity and the Sacred Feminine moves the reader to quiet depths, affirming what it is to embody and then write down one's truth. At once informative and inspirational, the book reveals its wisdom in layers, inviting the reader to return...

The creative author may select names for characters arbitrarily, accidentally, or as a matter of deliberate planning, but the names can make all the difference. James Bond, Uriah Heep, Dirk Pitt, Silas Marner, Ebenezer Scrooge - all examples of names intimately idenfified with their...

A new, completely revised and much extended edition of H. L. Mencken's well-known work first issued in a limited edition as a "preliminary inquiry" in 1919, this book is the most comprehensive treatise on the American dialect ever attempted. It almost exhausts the subject....

Have you struggled to expand your initial idea into a complete story? Plotting can be frustrating work What if there were a tool for this very problem, so you could navigate these uncharted waters as quickly as possible? A tool that starts with what...

Can low-profile, not-yet-famous authors get published and sell lots of books? This multiple award winning book says "Yes " and tells how. "...a comprehensive guide to marketing a book... a] well-written, engaging resource that's loaded with specific tips.... Brimming with creative ideas, Sell More...

Through the explanations, examples, and exercises in this guide, the author emphasizes using syntax and logic to connect sentences and teach users to connect the information of their prose and thus please readers by the clarity of their writing. He introduces various grammatical concepts...

Many people are crippled in their personal and professional lives by a deep fear of public speaking. They avoid leadership roles at work, cower in group settings, and can't seem to put their feelings and ideas into words-even with loved ones. As a result,...

This guide brings the language of mind, heart and spirit to conflict resolution and personal or professional relationships. It includes clear explanations, many real-world examples and activities to deepen understanding and foster skills. Includes month-by-month daily practices.Author: Arlene BrownellPublisher: Arlene BrownellPublished: 02/25/2007Pages: 220Binding Type:...

Join Kristen Clark, award winning author and frequent contributor for Chicken Soup for the Soul, and her husband, Dr. Lawrence J. Clark, author, speaker, and university writing professor, as they share their experience writing and publishing inspirational short stories, and reveal their insider's view...

This ground breaking book on the spoken, written and sung word for personal and social transformation emcompasses writing, storytelling, songs, drama, performance and other forms of the language arts as collective or personal tools for liberation. Whether through community storytelling for elders, individual journaling...

"This is a great book, no matter what stage of writing you're at "--The Writer Magazine"Here is a must-have for would-be writers. Put this on the shelf right beside Strunk and White."--Booklist"Addresses all the elements of successful writing."--Tampa Tribune"Advice on getting your work published...

20 Things You Must Know to Write a Great Screenplay is a practical, concrete, primer that teaches beginning through advanced screenwriters the skills necessary to write the most popular types of screenplays being produced in Hollywood today. It also includes a short, sample screenplay...

If you want to write fiction, then short stories are a great place to start. This book will help you to find ideas and teach you all the essential elements of short story writing. It covers plot and structure, conflict, dialogue, characterisation, settings, description,...

Learn To Read Rapidly With Phonics: Beginner Reader Book 6. A Fun, Colour In Phonic Reading SchemeGuinea Pig Education is proud to be launching an exciting, new revolutionary phonic reading scheme. Learn To Read With Phonics teaches reading rapidly, in as little as six...

Worlds Apart: A Dialogue of the 60's is a fictional conversation among eight people: a physicist, a biologist, a theologian, a philosopher, a psychiatrist, a teacher, a rocket scientist, and a lawyer. Energetic, wide-ranging and deeply penetrating, this brilliantly witty book points toward a...

This book has three essays, humorous and serious, relating to writing as Poe describes. How to Write a Blackwood's Article, The Philosophy of Composition, and X-ing a Paragraph. Poe himself investigated a variety of genres and styles of writing, from the erudite and abstruse...

Entertaining guide to sayings and expressions from an almost lost early rural culture. Helps explain some strange phraseology and other Midwestern talk. These sayings are colored with allusions from the past and touched with a bit of humor. Some may appear to be crude...