Download or read book The Writer s Workout written by Christina Katz and published by Writer's Digest Books. This book was released on 2011-12-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration, stamina, and power to take charge of your writing life?every day. Get the daily jolt of energy your writing life needs from The Writer?s Workout. Inside you?ll find manageable, no-nonsense techniques for every aspect of your writing career from getting organized to connecting with your audience to building relationships. Veteran writing coach Christina Katz draws on her knowledge from more than a decade in the business to give you tips, exercises, and insider strategies to build your skills. Make your writing as strong and powerful as possible. Pitch and sell your work at every opportunity. Overcome rejection to come back better than ever. Promote your work and build an audience. Learn how to balance your creative life with your daily life. With The Writer?s Workout, you?ll develop skill, strength, and confidence ? everything you need to build a robust, unique writing career that?s built to last. Bonus online exclusive: Download a free motivational poster to keep you moving as your build your writing career at writersdigest.com/writers-workout.
Download or read book The Writer s Diet written by Helen Sword and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an easy-to-follow set of writing principles. For example, use active verbs whenever possible, favour concrete language over vague abstractions, avoid long strings of prepositional phrases, employ adjectives and adverbs only when they contribute something new to the meaning of a sentence and reduce your dependence on the "waste words": 'it', 'this', 'that' and 'there'. The author also shows these rules in action through examples from famous authors such as Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson. The book includes a test to help you assess your own writing and get advice on problem areas.
Download or read book Tales from the Cliff written by Writer's Workout and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cliffhangers, love them or hate them, are a huge part of literary tradition. Usually, there is a resolution in the sequel, but what if there's not? Take a look inside, and find out!
Download or read book A Writer s Workbook written by Caroline Sharp and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aspiring doctors have medical school. Karate students have belts of different colors. Pianists have scales and arpeggios. But what system do writers have for getting and staying "in shape," to help them focus, practice, and make progress? A Writer's Workbook is Caroline Sharp's ingenious collection of exercises to inspire, encourage, warm up, and jump-start anyone who writes. A wise and funny friend who will cheerlead you through even your darkest can't-write days and "every idea I've ever had is awful" nights, she provides encouraging suggestions, hilarious observations, and an amazingly vivid catalogue of writers' neuroses (with advice on overcoming them, of course). From "Roget's Resume" and "Emulating Ernest" to "End Well," "The Rewrite Rut," and "Dear John," the exercises in this generous, wry workbook will keep your ideas fresh, your mind open, and your pen moving.
Download or read book The Screenwriter s Workout written by Will Hicks and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-24 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flex your screenwriting skills and stretch your creativity with The Screenwriter's Workout! The Screenwriter's Workout is a complete training program for your mind - with over 75 exercises and hundreds of activities specifically designed for both new and experienced screenwriters to train the neural pathways that generate story. Have Fun While You: Design Dynamic Characters - New character creation tools make it easy to create characters designed to fit seamlessly with your script. Explore Structure - Delve inside structure to learn what it does, what it really is, and why you need it. Create Stories - Explore the art, science and craft of cinematic narrative with story-building tools, lessons and theories specifically designed to enhance your storytelling skills. Redefine Conflict - Learn what conflict actually is and what it does to an audience. Analyze Your Work - Save time and effort with rewriting tools to analyze the design of your screenplay. Craft Compelling Loglines - Learn how to write powerful loglines designed to help your screenplay sell. Discover Interactive Screenwriting - Learn the techniques and theories behind writing screenplays that engage and interact with audiences. Written in a conversational style, The Screenwriter's Workout is a fun and interactive way to strengthen your craft, hone your writing skills and refine your storytelling.
Download or read book The Brain Workout Book written by Snowden Parlette and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1997-05-20 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exercising your brain is just as important as working out. If you don't exercise your brain, it will atrophy, at least the part your not using. 'Use it or lose it' is as true of our mental faculties as it is of our physical abilities. Fortunately, most of us do get plenty of stimulation in our daily lives, jobs, leisure activities and relationships. The problem is that our brain stimulation is often not very balanced, and that imbalance can affect your sense of well-being. This book provides exercises for all the major brain functions at several different levels. Inside you will be able to: test your brain fitness level, develop right brain association and creative ability, and improve your logic and numbers skills using left-brain workouts invented by scientists.
Download or read book The Man Plan written by Adam MacDougall and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man Up! You're not a little boy anymore. It's up to you to take control of your health and fitness. There's nothing fun about growing a pair of man boobs, having a bulging gut and feeling like crap. You'd like to lose weight but you don't want to spend hours on a treadmill. You don't want to eat boring salads. You don't want to count calories. Welcome to my Man Plan. No BS - just stuff that works. I'll show you how to eat well and exercise for maximum effectiveness - in just 10 minutes a day! It's this simple: 5 daily man moves 10 primal moves 1 weekly workout 50 recipes It doesn't matter how busy you are, how old you are or how much money you have . . . you can lose your gut without losing all the beers, and still enjoy your favourite foods. Just follow my plan.
Download or read book 101 Creative Writing Exercises written by Melissa Donovan and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 101 Creative Writing Exercises takes you on an adventure through the world of creative writing. Explore different forms and genres by experimenting with fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Discover effective writing concepts, tools, and techniques. Create projects you can publish. Ideal for new and experienced writers alike, this book will enlighten and inspire you with exciting new ideas. Freewriting Journaling and Memoir Fiction and Storytelling Form Poetry and Free Verse Article and Blog Writing By Melissa Donovan, Founder and Editor of Writing Forward, a critically acclaimed blog packed with creative writing tips and ideas
Download or read book Joke Writing Workout written by John Moore and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready to get your comedy pump on? For mazillions of years, writers of all kinds have known that the secret to becoming a great, prolific writer is to write a lot. Big secret, I know. Another secret of these fancy-pants writers is to use writing-prompts as a way to kick start their writing sessions. Now you can too, you jokey bastard! The joke writing workout is a workbook consisting of series of joke writing prompts for comedy writers, comedians, and those who want to be to work out their comedy muscles. It trains your brain to work funny by getting you to come up with punchlines based on provided setups. Even if you never work with this joke format, it will help your brain to think funnier. What are you waiting for? This is the greatest book ever written by me!
Download or read book Sitting on Top of the World written by Cheryl King and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old June Baker never in a million years thought she'd be dressing like a boy, sneaking into a hobo camp, and jumping onto a moving freight train to travel across the state of Tennessee. But that's what she has to do to find work so her family's farm can survive. It's what she has to do to fulfill her brother's dying wish. It's 1933, and the Great Depression is tightening its chokehold on working America. Where once June was sitting on top of the world with her beloved brother Joseph (June calls him Josy), now she's carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders. Once she was picking fruit from the pawpaw trees, and now she's picking up the pieces of a family torn apart. Once she was climbing and falling from trees, and now she's falling for a boy she should be running from.They were counting on Josy. Now her family's counting on her: daddy, who's grieving losses no father should have to grieve; mama, who's suffering tuberculosis; and even her best friend, Margaret Ann, whose own father was a victim of railroad bulls. June knows she has no choice but to ride the rails, and she knows she'll find work. What she doesn't know is that the railroad bull she falls in love with has a devastating secret that will change the course of her life.Journey with June in this young-adult historical fiction tale about friendship, love, and loss, Sitting on Top of the World.
Download or read book The Writer s Workout written by Diana Kathryn Plopa and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Miracle Morning for Writers written by Hal Elrod and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Need to find "more time" to write--without sacrificing the important things? Looking to consistently discover great book ideas? Wish you could generate a steady income from your words..."or" increase what you already make? The solution to these questions is to change what you do first thing in the morning. And that's why you should read "The Miracle Morning for Writers: How to Build a Writing Ritual That Increases Your Impact and Income (Before 8AM)." "The Miracle Morning for Writers" combines Hal Elrod's global phenomenon with Steve Scott's proven writing habit techniques (which helped him get on the "Wall Street Journal" bestsellers list). You learn how to take charge of your morning and maximize "the rest of the day" for your writing efforts. Here's what you'll discover in "The Miracle Morning for Writers: " How a morning routine can change "every" area of your life (Including your health, happiness, finances and relationships). The proven strategy for "finding the time" to write--even if you have a full-time job. "Our" method for selling lots of books (and the 8-step process to build it). Steve's favorite app for tracking your great ideas "and" researching your next book. Hal's process for overcoming the limiting beliefs that hold you back from success. "Flow state" and how it can forever eradicate writer's block. You will also learn: 4 business models perfect for writers, how to get started, and which one "we" recommend. The 10-step process for publishing a book that readers love. 6 tools for improving your writing skills. 2 techniques for doubling (even tripling) your daily word count total. How to find the "80/20" of your book-based business. "The Miracle Morning for Writers" is your key to building a writing habit that will increase both your income "and" the value you provide to the world. So take the next step in your writing journey by clicking the "Buy Now" button at the top of the page!
Download or read book The Writer s Workout Book written by Art Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Complete Writer s Workout Book written by Carolyn H. Fitzpatrick and published by D C Heath & Company. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Good Writer s Kit Writer s Workout written by National Geographic Learning National Geographic Learning and published by . This book was released on 2007-05-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sticky-note prompts, checklists, and other supports guide students as they write to apply lesson concepts. The finished book becomes a valued portfolio of the student's growth in writing.
