Full name: How to Be a Writer: Building Your Creative Skills Through Practice and Play

Author: Barbara Baig Year: 2010 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Writing, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781582978055 1582978050

Athletes practice. Musicians practice. As a writer you need to do the same. Whether you have dreams of writing a novel or a memoir or a collection of poems, or you simply want to improve your everyday writing, this innovative book will show you how to build your skills by way of practice. Through playful and purposeful exercises, you'll develop your natural aptitude for communication, strengthening your ability to come up with things to say, and your ability to get those things into the minds (and the hearts) of readers. You'll learn to: - Train and develop your writer's powers--creativity, memory, observation, imagination, curiosity, and the subconscious - Understand the true nature of the relationship between you and your readers - Find your writer's voice - Get required writing projects done so you have more time for the writing you want to do - And much more Empowering and down-to-earth, How to Be a Writer gives you the tools you need, and tells you what (and how) to practice so that you can become the writer you want to be. Similar books: Your First Novel by Ann Rittenberg Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schmidt Goal, Motivation and Conflict by Debra Dixon Hooked by Les Edgerton Creating Character Arcs by K. M. Weiland Plot Versus Character by Jeff Gerke The Joy of Writing Sex by Elizabeth Benedict Building Better Plots by Robert Kernen Dialogue by Gloria Kempton Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint by Nancy Kress The Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes and Heroines by Tami D. Cowden 45 Master Characters by Victoria Lynn Schmidt Writing Fiction For Dummies by Randy Ingermanson Scene and Structure by Jack M. Bickham Naming the World by Bret Anthony Johnston Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne The Essential Guide to Freelance Writing by Zachary Petit Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight V. Swain Story Engineering by Larry Brooks