Download or read book 1001 Romance Story Starters written by Annette Elton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-16 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every good romance novel begins the same way - with a story idea. Yet compelling story ideas aren't always easy to come by. Sometimes we all need a little inspiration - a spark that ignites our imagination and excites the writing muse. 1001 Romance Story Starters cover myriad genres, from erotic romance to inspirational and everything in between. Romance Story Starters aren't your traditional writing prompts. Designed to kick start your imagination they include dialogue starters, scenes, open ended scenarios, and even story endings. You can change ANYTHING about the story starter. Take the idea and bend it to your will - you're the boss. Use the ideas to create powerful and compelling characters. Rhett and Scarlett, Romeo and Juliet, Kate and Curran, great romance characters are created through conflict, chemistry, and courtship. Each story starter holds the potential to help you create characters that capture your reader's heart and mind and stand the test of time. Use the ideas to help you overcome writer's block. It doesn't matter if you're staring at a blank page or if you're in the middle of a novel and unsure where to go with it - use the starters as inspiration. Let them help get your creative brain fired up. Use the ideas to strengthen your writing muscles. Your writing muscles are like any other muscle in your body. If you don't use them regularly, it becomes weak. Don't let your creative writing muscles atrophy! Even if you're not working on a story idea, write. Grab a story idea and fill a page or two (or ten) or write for twenty minutes - you make the rules.

Download or read book 100 Prompts for Romance Writers written by Annette Elton and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conquer that dreaded writers block! With originally self-published works like Fifty Shades of Grey turning into mind-blowing blockbusters, both traditional and indie authors have embraced the romance genre as never before. But when youre left staring helplessly at a blank page, what can help you move forward? This pocket-sized, affordable collection of romance story-starters offers 100 prompts, organized by subgenre, from historical bodice rippers, to paranormal romance, to contemporary erotica. In this portable muse, writers of all romance genres and experience levels will find the seeds of many spellbinding tales.

Download or read book Story Starters A Workbook for Writers written by Michelle Richmond and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes the hardest part about being a writer is committing the first words to paper. This workbook, created by a New York Times bestselling novelist and veteran writing teacher, will banish writer's block, spark your imagination, and provide endless opportunities to make stories out of thin air. Arranged in a daily progression to help you get the most out of your writing practice, the 50 exercises in this workbook are the result of more than a decade of teaching. Craft-based exercises, free-flow exercises, and ten-minute prompts lead up to a series of imaginative flash fiction assignments. A Halfway There Self-Assessment helps your recognize your strengths and identify your subject. Whether you want to punch up your dialogue, explore dramatic tension, mine your life for material, find your voice, or craft a story for publication, this workbook will help you meet your writing goals. Including roomy pages for writing and inspiring quotes on the writing life, Story Starters: A Workbook for Writers, is the perfect companion for Nanowrimo and beyond.

Download or read book 501 Writing Prompts written by LearningExpress (Organization) and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This eBook features 501 sample writing prompts that are designed to help you improve your writing and gain the necessary writing skills needed to ace essay exams. Build your essay-writing confidence fast with 501 Writing Prompts!" --

Download or read book 1001 Words You Need To Know and Use written by Martin Manser and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-01-14 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This A-Z provides 1001 words you need to know to make your writing and speaking effective, convincing, and expressive. With clear guidance on choosing the right word, this book is essential for anyone wanting to achieve greater success in written and spoken tasks including essays, interviews, CVs and application letters, reports, and more.

Download or read book Mastering Plot Twists written by Jane Cleland and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...A unique and absolutely invaluable toolbox for any author..." ~Kate White, New York Times best-selling author and former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Unlock the secrets to superior plot twists! The key to keeping people on the edge of their seat--from memoirs to thrillers and stage plays to screenplays--is filling your stories with unexpected twists and turns. By integrating Plot Twists, Plot Reversals, and Moments of Heightened Danger (TRDs) at crucial points, you can captivate your readers with I-can't-wait-to-see-what-happens-next intrigue. The quicker pace and focused action that comes from strategically placed twists form the core of the nuanced, multifaceted books that sell--and that help you find a devoted readership. In Mastering Plot Twists, Agatha Award-winning author, Jane K. Cleland goes beyond telling writers what to do; she shows you how to do it. Within these pages, you'll find: • A proven, five-step process for using TRDs, with detailed examples from best-selling books • A deep dive into plotting, structure, pacing, subplots, and more to help you develop surprising yet inevitable twists. • "Jane's Plotting Roadmap" and worksheets--essential tools for planning your plot Building on the award-winning instruction provided in Mastering Suspense, Structure & Plot, Cleland's newest guide will help you create effective and credible twists, creating the kind of stories that will keep your readers up long into the night. "...A master class in crafting plots that twist and turn..." ~Hallie Ephron, New York Times best-selling author of You'll Never Know, Dear

Download or read book All Our Yesterdays written by Cristin Terrill and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliantly brain-warping thriller and a love story that leaps back and forth in time – All Our Yesterdays is an amazing first novel, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games. Em is locked in a bare, cold cell with no comforts. Finn is in the cell next door. The Doctor is keeping them there until they tell him what he wants to know. Trouble is, what he wants to know hasn't happened yet. Em and Finn have a shared past, but no future unless they can find a way out. The present is torture – being kept apart, overhearing each other's anguish as the Doctor relentlessly seeks answers. There's no way back from here, to what they used to be, the world they used to know. Then Em finds a note in her cell which changes everything. It's from her future self and contains some simple but very clear instructions. Em must travel back in time to avert a tragedy that's about to unfold. Worse, she has to pursue and kill the boy she loves to change the future . . .

Download or read book 1001 Horror Writing Prompts written by Christina Escamilla and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Scares You?It's a question that all horror writers want to know. To understand the answer, it is important to look at the fear itself. Whether you are a novice or writing professional, the prompts contained in this book are designed to give you more food for thought when crafting your creative works. The book is also segmented in order to give you the most common science fiction themes and concepts. They are as followed: Demons, Occult, & Paranormal Themes Fears, Paranoia, & Psychological UndertonesMonsters, Creatures, & Creepy Slashers, Snatchers, & Real Life CrimeWerewolves & Other Supernatural BeingsWith 1001 prompts, you are bound to find something that gives you that one spark you need to pen your next great horror story.

Download or read book The Vampire written by Nick Groom and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori’s publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom’s detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century, when Enlightenment science collided with Eastern European folklore and apparently verified outbreaks of vampirism, capturing the attention of medical researchers, political commentators, social theorists, theologians, and philosophers. Groom accordingly traces the vampire from its role as a monster embodying humankind’s fears, to that of an unlikely hero for the marginalized and excluded in the twenty-first century. Drawing on literary and artistic representations, as well as medical, forensic, empirical, and sociopolitical perspectives, this rich and eerie history presents the vampire as a strikingly complex being that has been used to express the traumas and contradictions of the human condition.

Download or read book 101 Conversation Starters for Couples written by Gary Chapman and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your spouse is a unique person, filled with amazing insights, thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Communication is key to really knowing and fully loving that person. Bestselling author and marriage counselor Gary Chapman has developed this handy tabletop resource to get you and your spouse talking. With 101 probing questions, couples will find their relationship enhanced, their intimacy deepened, and their romance ignited. 101 Conversation Starters for Couples is the perfect companion to the bestselling book, The 5 Love Languages®. It also makes an excellent Valentines Day, wedding, and anniversary gift. It helps you and your spouse get the conversation flowing.

Download or read book Cinnamon and Gunpowder written by Eli Brown and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1819, kidnapped chef Owen Wedgwood transforms meager shipboard supplies into sumptuous meals at the behest of his kidnapper, pirate queen Mad Hannah Mabbot, while she pushes her exhausted crew to track down a deadly privateer.

Download or read book A Thousand Splendid Suns written by Khaled Hosseini and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love

Download or read book Karma s Spell written by L.A. Boruff and published by The Phantom Pen. This book was released on with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one ever told me what to do if I ended up forty-something, divorced, and jobless. When my ex knocks at my door with his new girlfriend I somehow manage to turn them into toads. But that’s not possible, right? Still, my ex-husband’s car is in the driveway, and he’s nowhere to be found. Which doesn’t look great for me. So I do the only rational thing I can think of… I run for it, straight back to the small town I grew up in. Mystic Hollow is exactly the way I remember it, except now it seems that everything I thought was normal and boring is supernatural. Even my group of childhood friends appear to be magical in unexpected ways. And the hot guy I had a schoolgirl crush on? Apparently, he’s an alpha shifter who digs me. Moving back home might be the fun I’ve been missing. That is until my brother disappears. Now, it’s up to me to find him, even if I have to take on vampires, shifters, sirens, and a whole lot of crazy to do it. I know that so long as I have my friends backing me, I’ll find him because no one wants to be on karma’s bad side...

Download or read book Love in the Friend Zone written by Molly E. Lee and published by Entangled: Crush. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Braylen didn’t even want to go to the epic graduation-night party, but when her BFF Fynn begs her to be his “wingwoman,” she can’t deny him. Talking him up—how he’s magic behind a camera, his killer sense of humor, and how his eyelashes frame the most gorgeous blue eyes in the history of forever—is easy. Supporting his efforts to woo someone so completely wrong for him? Not so much. Bray’s been Fynn’s best friend since kindergarten, and he’d rather have her in his life as a friend than not at all. Grad night is his last shot before leaving for college to find true love. But over the course of the coolest party of their high school careers, Fynn starts to see that perhaps what he really wants has been in front of him all along. Disclaimer: This Entangled Teen Crush book contains one epic party, complete with plenty of high-schoolers-gone-bad shenanigans, and two best friends whose sexual chemistry is off the charts...if only they’d succumb to it. Each book in the Grad Night series is STANDALONE: * Love in the Friend Zone * Love Between Enemies * Love Beyond Opposites

Download or read book Betrayal written by Pippa DaCosta and published by Pippa DaCosta. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW FREE! She is programmed to kill. He’ll do anything to survive. When Captain Caleb Shepperd is released from prison, all he wants to do is keep his head down and smuggle contraband through the nine systems. But there’s a problem with that plan. The synthetic human stowed away in his cargo bay carries secrets from a past he thought he’d escaped. Secrets that could bring him and the nine systems to its knees. Now the authorities want Shepperd dead and his ship in pieces. And the synth? Well, she has an itchy trigger finger and murder on her synthetic mind. Shepperd is about to discover he can’t outrun his past, especially when that past has orders to kill. Action, drama, and suspense collide in this no-holds-barred sci-fi adventure! WARNING: 18+ only. Adult content. "This world is dark, the characters are twisted and I was completely hooked." ~ Feeling Fictional "It's as if Blade Runner, Firefly, and Ex_Machina had a baby named Girl From Above!"~ Goodreads Reviewer "(Girl From Above) is what would happen if HBO made a love child between the shows Firefly and Killjoys." ~ Smadas Book Smack "Generous helpings of sex, drugs and rock n' roll plus the intriguing character of the post-human #1001 help this novel stand out from the crowd." ~ Book of the Week (May 2015) scifi365.net "Prepare yourself for some laughs, thrills, and potentially some tears." ~ Sammie's Book Nook "Unique, gritty and totally awesome." ~ Bookfever Novel length: 177 paperback pages. Genre: Space opera. Series Reading Order: #1 Betrayal #2 Escape #3 Trapped #4 Trust

Download or read book Scavenge the Stars written by Tara Sim and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-01-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From rising-star author Tara Sim comes an epic new YA fantasy duology—a gender-swapped The Count of Monte Cristo retelling that's perfect for fans of All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace. When Amaya rescues a mysterious stranger from drowning, she fears her rash actions have earned her a longer sentence on the debtor ship where she's been held captive for years. Instead, the man she saved offers her unimaginable riches and a new identity, setting Amaya on a perilous course through the coastal city-state of Moray, where old-world opulence and desperate gamblers collide. Amaya wants one thing: revenge against the man who ruined her family and stole the life she once had. But the more entangled she becomes in this game of deception—and as her path intertwines with the son of the man she's plotting to bring down—the more she uncovers about the truth of her past. And the more she realizes she must trust no one? Packed with high-stakes adventure, romance, and dueling identities, this gender-swapped retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo is the first novel in an epic YA fantasy duology, perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Sabaa Tahir, and Leigh Bardugo.

Download or read book If I Ran the Circus written by Dr. Seuss and published by RH Childrens Books. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Seuss's classic celebration of youthful imagination! The Circus McGurkus! The World's Greatest Show On the face of the earth, or wherever you go! Young Morris McGurk's has a BIG imagination. He wants to turn the vacant lot behind Sneelock's Store into the Circus McGurkus—the most colossal, stupendous, tremendous show in the world! Here you'll be entertained by bizarre creatures like the Drum-Tummied Snum, the Juggling Jott, and the Harp-Twanging Snarp, and fantastic circus acts performed by Sneelock—a sleepy shop keeper whom Morris images as the daredevil star of his big top! This is Dr. Seuss at his best, celebrating youthful imagination and creating a fantasy world that will delight and transport readers of all ages.