Download or read book The Fiction Writer s Research Handbook written by Mona McCormick and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McCormick (reference, UCLA library) describes the search for such information as is needed to create credible settings. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Fiction Writers Research Handbook written by Mona McCormick and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of Creative Research written by Philip Gerard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone who writes a novel, a poem, or a memoir almost certainly conducts research along the waywhether to develop a story idea, or to capture the voice, the speech patterns, or the exact words of a character, or to ensure authenticity or accuracy of detail in describing a person, a place, an object, a setting. This kind of experiential research is an art form of its own, and this book is the first to treat it as such. Addressing writers of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, Philip Gerard covers all the different kinds of archives that might inform creative work, including historical documents, site visits, interviews, and memory. He offers practical tips for drawing on these different types of sources, including such mundane matters as planning and budgeting for travel costs, arranging access in advance, and troubleshooting when plans go awry. And he illustrates how the insights gleaned from research can be incorporated into stories, poems, and nonfiction using examples from a wide range of writers."
Download or read book Fiction Writer s Handbook written by Hallie Burnett and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book You Need to Read to Write the Book You Want to Write written by Sarah Burton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wanted to write a novel or short story but didn't know where to start? If so, this is the book for you. It's the book for anyone, in fact, who wants to write to their full potential. Practical and jargon-free, rejecting prescriptive templates and formulae, it's a storehouse of ideas and advice on a range of relevant subjects, from boosting self-motivation and confidence to approaching agents and publishers. Drawing on the authors' extensive experience as successful writers and inspiring teachers, it will guide you through such essentials as the interplay of memory and imagination; plotting your story; the creation of convincing characters; the uses of description; the pleasures and pitfalls of research; and the editing process. The book's primary aim is simple: to help its readers to become better writers.
Download or read book Research for Writers written by Ann Hoffmann and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long acknowledged as the standard research guide for writers and journalists. It includes advice on utilising the internet for research and information.
Download or read book The Fiction Writer s Handbook written by Shelly Lowenkopf and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short entries describing the terms and processes used in writing fiction.
Download or read book Handbook of Writing Research Second Edition written by Charles A. MacArthur and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive reference in the field, this volume synthesizes current knowledge on writing development and instruction at all grade levels. Prominent scholars examine numerous facets of writing from sociocultural, cognitive, linguistic, neuroscience, and new literacy/technological perspectives. The volume reviews the evidence base for widely used instructional approaches, including those targeting particular components of writing. Issues in teaching specific populations--including students with disabilities and English learners--are addressed. Innovative research methods and analytic tools are clearly explained, and key directions for future investigation identified. New to This Edition *Chapters on genre instruction, evaluation and revision, argumentative writing, computer-based instruction, and professional development. *Chapters on new literacies, out-of-school writing, translation, and self-regulation. *Many new topics and authors, including more international perspectives. *Multiple chapters connect research findings to the Common Core writing standards. See also the editors' Best Practices in Writing Instruction, Second Edition, an accessible course text and practitioner's guide.
Download or read book Research Handbook on Law and Literature written by Goodrich, Peter and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original and thought-provoking Research Handbook, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, artists, lawyers, judges, and writers offer a range of perspectives on rethinking law by means of literary concepts. Presenting a comprehensive introduction to jurisliterary themes, it destabilises the traditional hierarchy that places law before literature and exposes the literary nature of the legal.
Download or read book The Fiction Writer s Handbook ARC written by Shelly Lowenkopf and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Advanced Reader's Copy version of this upcoming book, out in November.
Download or read book Fiction as Research Practice written by Patricia Leavy and published by Left Coast Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turn to fiction as a social research practice is a natural extension of what many researchers and writers have long been doing. Patricia Leavy, a widely published qualitative researcher and a novelist, explores the overlaps and intersections between these two ways of understanding and describing human experience. She demonstrates the validity of literary experimentation to the qualitative researcher and how to incorporate these practices into research projects. Five short stories and excerpts from novellas and novels show these methods in action. This book is an essential methodological introduction for those interested in studying or practicing arts-based research.
Download or read book The Shipping News written by Annie Proulx and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Here, on desolate Quoyle’s Point, in a house empty except for a few mementos of the family’s unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives. Newfoundland is a country of coast and cove where the mercury rarely rises above seventy degrees, the local culinary delicacy is cod cheeks, and it’s easier to travel by boat and snowmobile than on anything with wheels. In this harsh place of cruel storms, a collapsing fishery, and chronic unemployment, the aunt sets up as a yacht upholsterer in nearby Killick-Claw, and Quoyle finds a job reporting the shipping news for the local weekly, the Gammy Bird (a paper that specializes in sexual-abuse stories and grisly photos of car accidents). As the long winter closes its jaws of ice, each of the Quoyles confronts private demons, reels from catastrophe to minor triumph—in the company of the obsequious Mavis Bangs; Diddy Shovel the strongman; drowned Herald Prowse; cane-twirling Beety; Nutbeem, who steals foreign news from the radio; a demented cousin the aunt refuses to recognize; the much-zippered Alvin Yark; silent Wavey; and old Billy Pretty, with his bag of secrets. By the time of the spring storms Quoyle has learned how to gut cod, to escape from a pickle jar, and to tie a true lover’s knot.
Download or read book The PhD Writing Handbook written by Desmond Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an invaluable guide to developing the writing skills needed to succeed at every stage of postgraduate research. It provides useful guidance on writing clearly and coherently, and covers core topics such as exploring key concepts through writing, building a structured chapter framework and completing a first draft. Each chapter features insights from researchers along with hands-on tasks and self-evaluation exercises to help readers develop their own strategies for success. This detailed, step-by-step guide to the secrets of successful PhD writing will be essential reading for PhD students and their supervisors across a wide range of disciplines.
Download or read book Research Methods in Creative Writing written by Jeri Kroll and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the modes and methods of creative writing research, designed to be invaluable to university staff and students in formulating research ideas, and in selective appropriate strategies. Creative writing researchers from around the globe offer a selection of models that readers can explore and on which they can build.
Download or read book The Fiction Writer s Handbook written by Nancy Smith and published by Piatkus Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide and reference book for everyone who wants to write a novel or short stories. The author teaches creative writing and writes novels, short stories and magazine articles.
Download or read book Fiction Writers Hdbk written by Hallie Burnett and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1993-01-27 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers practical advice on every aspect of writing novels and short stories: plotting and narrative development, characterization and dialogue, sources of material, planning an opening, roughing out chapters, using suspense and emotional color, rewriting and highlighting and much more. Examples drawn from the works of outstanding writers, past and present, illustrate each point, making this the perfect handbook for professional writers and students.
Download or read book Writer s Market 100th Edition written by Robert Lee Brewer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most trusted guide to getting published, fully revised and updated Want to get published and paid for your writing? Let Writer's Market, 100th edition guide you through the process. It's the ultimate reference with thousands of publishing opportunities for writers, listings for book publishers, consumer and trade magazines, contests and awards, and literary agents—as well as new playwriting and screenwriting sections, along with contact and submission information. Beyond the listings, you'll find articles devoted to the business and promotion of writing. Discover 20 literary agents actively seeking writers and their writing, how to develop an author brand, and overlooked funds for writers. This 100th edition also includes the ever-popular pay-rate chart and book publisher subject index. You'll gain access to: Thousands of updated listings for book publishers, magazines, contests, and literary agents Articles devoted to the business and promotion of writing A newly revised "How Much Should I Charge?" pay rate chart Sample query letters for fiction and nonfiction Lists of professional writing organizations
