Download or read book The Writer s Digest Sourcebook for Building Believable Characters written by Marc McCutcheon and published by Writers Digest Books. This book was released on 2000-10-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six novelists reveal their approaches to characterization in this guide, which comes with a questionnaire to help writers probe their characters' backgrounds, beliefs, and desires and a "thesaurus" of physical and psychological traits to aid in character development.
Download or read book Those who Do Can written by Robert L. Root and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A writing instructor's handbook emphasizing the pedagogical necessity for teachers to practice their craft in conjunction with teaching it. Based on a series of workshops held in Traverse Bay, Michigan, the volume features exercises and examples to prompt the creative writing process, wiring the experiences to classroom application and suggesting practical approaches to subject matter, content, grammar, and integrating media into the writing instruction mix. Lacks an index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer s Sourcebook written by David H. Borcherding and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though they write of the fantastic, writers must work within certain realities. This sourcebook provides detailed market listings including agents and magazines, and gives writing advice including an analysis of novel excerpts.
Download or read book Postcolonial African Writers written by Siga Fatima Jagne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature. The volume begins with an introductory essay on postcolonial criticism and African writing, then presents alphabetically arranged profiles of some 60 writers, including Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Tahbar Ben Jelloun, among others. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes that appear in the author's writings, an overview of the critical response to the author's work, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. These profiles are written by expert contributors and reflect many different perspectives. The volume concludes with a selected general bibliography of the most important critical works on postcolonial African literature.
Download or read book Fandom as Methodology written by Catherine Grant and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated exploration of fandom that combines academic essays with artist pages and experimental texts. Fandom as Methodology examines fandom as a set of practices for approaching and writing about art. The collection includes experimental texts, autobiography, fiction, and new academic perspectives on fandom in and as art. Key to the idea of “fandom as methodology” is a focus on the potential for fandom in art to create oppositional spaces, communities, and practices, particularly from queer perspectives, but also through transnational, feminist and artist-of-color fandoms. The book provides a range of examples of artists and writers working in this vein, as well as academic essays that explore the ways in which fandom can be theorized as a methodology for art practice and art history. Fandom as Methodology proposes that many artists and art writers already draw on affective strategies found in fandom. With the current focus in many areas of art history, art writing, and performance studies around affective engagement with artworks and imaginative potentials, fandom is a key methodology that has yet to be explored. Interwoven into the academic essays are lavishly designed artist pages in which artists offer an introduction to their use of fandom as methodology. Contributors Taylor J. Acosta, Catherine Grant, Dominic Johnson, Kate Random Love, Maud Lavin, Owen G. Parry, Alice Butler, SooJin Lee, Jenny Lin, Judy Batalion, Ika Willis. Artists featured in the artist pages Jeremy Deller, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, Anna Bunting-Branch, Maria Fusco, Cathy Lomax, Kamau Amu Patton, Holly Pester, Dawn Mellor, Michelle Williams Gamaker, The Women of Colour Index Reading Group, Liv Wynter, Zhiyuan Yang
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Download or read book A Sourcebook of American Literary Journalism written by Thomas B. Connery and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1992-01-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide range of writers are brought together in this discussion of American literary journalism in the 19th and 20th centuries. 35 essays analyze major writers of the genre or writers known for a major work of the genre, and there are short pieces for 19 additional figures.
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Download or read book Japanese Women Writers written by Chieko Mulhern and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1994-10-10 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have made many important contributions to Japanese literature since the Heian period (794-1192), when Murasaki Shikibu wrote her prose masterpiece, The Tale of Genji. Even earlier, though documentation is scant, women actively participated in Japanese letters as poets. This reference is a guide to the work of Japanese women writers from centuries ago to the present day. The volume includes 58 alphabetically arranged biographical and critical profiles of these women. The book profiles women writers who are considered mainstream writers in Japan and who have attracted attention in the West, chiefly through translations of their works and critical scholarship on their writings. Each entry discusses the subject's life, career, major works, and works in English translation. A bibliography concludes each article. While most of the women are poets, novelists, or authors of classical narrative fiction, the book also includes entries for premodern diarists, modern dramatists, television script writers, and movie scenario writers. An extensive bibliography and chronology conclude the volume.
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Download or read book Mystery Writer s Source Book written by David Borcherding and published by Writer's Digest Books. This book was released on 1995-09-15 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part marketing guide, part writing guide, part forum, this invaluable companion for mystery, suspense, and crime writers includes in-depth market reports on 120 mystery book and magazine publishers, two novel excerpts and an award-winning short story--and an analysis of why they sold--techniques from top writres, and more.
Download or read book The Writer s Digest Character Naming Sourcebook written by Sherrilyn Kenyon and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing Character Names The Writer's Digest Character Naming Sourcebook is a one-of-a-kind resource specifically designed with the writer in mind. Inside you'll find: • 25,000+ first names and surnames, and their meanings, listed by origin • Names and surnames from more than 45 countries • A reverse lookup of names by meaning • An alphabetical index of names • An explanation of naming practices and historical context for each origin • A list of the top ten most popular names in the United States every year from 1880-2003 • Instruction on how to create believable names that fit your characters and your story This comprehensive guide also includes advice from a number of best-selling authors, including Elizabeth George, Alexander McCall Smith, Homer Hickam, Marian Keyes, Big Fish author Daniel Wallace, and others. You'll get the inside scoop on their naming methods, plus the stories behind the names of their most famous characters. So throw out your old telephone books and baby-naming guides—The Writer's Digest Character Naming Sourcebook meets all your naming needs!
Download or read book Writers Inc Sourcebook written by Verne Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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