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Language
English
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Description
Nikki has spent most of her life distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community. After her father's death she takes a job teaching a creative writing course in the heart of the Punjabi community. When one of the women students brings a book of erotica to class, Nicki use it as the basis for helping these modest women unleash creativity by telling their own stories.
5) Syllabus
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Lynda Barry runs wild with her signature densely detailed graphic style. Collaged texts, ballpoint pen doodles, and watercolor washes adorn Syllabus' yellow lined pages, which offer advice on finding a creative voice and using memories to inspire the writing process. Throughout it all, Lynda Barry's voice (as author and teacher-mentor) rings clear, inspiring, and honest.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Mariner Books edition, Revised edition.
Language
English
Description
Presents advice on the basic elements of narrative prose, covering point of view, sentence length and complex syntax, indirect narration, grammar, punctuation, and the sound of writing.
7) Idea jar
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
What happens when the story ideas--from a bored Viking to a space robot--kept in a teacher's special jar escape and get rowdy?
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Combing anecdotes and hard-won lessons from decades of teaching and writing--and invoking everyone from Hemingway to your third-grade teacher--retired professor Thomas C. Foster guides you through the basics of writing. With How to Write Like a Writer you'll learn how to organize your thoughts, construct first drafts, and (not incidentally) keep you in your chair so that inspiration can come to visit.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alpha, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Provides an introduction to creative writing, and includes information on crafting meaningful plot, strategies for starting a writer's group, advice on applying for grants, guidance on writing a screenplay, and includes literary examples to help find a niche, and quizzes to challenge creative thinking.
Author
Series
Publisher
Watson-Guptill Publications
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
This practical guide to writing comic books covers all the essentials--from crafting an effective outline and formatting a script to composing a winning synopsis when pitching the product to publishers. The author also provides commentary on real-world examples of outlines, scripts, and synopses from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) faculty, alumni, and staff, showing what does and doesn't work.--From publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The sentence is the common ground where every writer walks. A good sentence can be written (and read) by anyone if we simply give it the gift of our time, and it is as close as most of us will get to making something truly beautiful. Using minimal technical terms and sources ranging from the Bible and Shakespeare to George Orwell and Maggie Nelson, as well as scientific studies of what can best fire the reader's mind, author Joe Moran shows how we...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
College students Lea and Gabe are in the same creative writing class and have the same interests, but it looks like things are never going to work out between them because Lea is a little aloof and Gabe is a little shy. Their romance is told through the perspectives of fourteen onlookers, from Lea's roommate to Gabe's best friend, their creative writing teacher, and the barista at the local Starbucks.
13) True notebooks
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the author's first years teaching at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles's most violent teenage offenders.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Children will enjoy recording their thoughts and memories in this interactive travel journal. Colorful artwork and clever text help prompt creative contributions from budding writers and artists. What's inside? Lined pages for writing, blank pages for drawing, games, activities and simple recipes, facts such as landmarks and symbols (and even a little history) and more! With its sturdy, lay-flat format, this journal is perfect for recording everything...
Publisher
Walker Books, a division of Candelwick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Famous authors and illustrators describe their creative process and present advice for young readers on using imagination and the exploration of everyday things to make their own inspired works.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Using clear, readable prose, conceptual artist and poet Kenneth Goldsmith's manifesto shows how our time on the internet is not really wasted but is quite productive and creative as he puts the experience in its proper theoretical and philosophical context.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Children will enjoy recording their thoughts and memories in this interactive travel journal. Colorful artwork and clever text help prompt creative contributions from budding writers and artists. What's inside? Lined pages for writing, blank pages for drawing, games, activities and simple recipes, facts such as landmarks and symbols (and even a little history) and more! With its sturdy, lay-flat format, this journal is perfect for recording everything...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Children will enjoy recording their thoughts and memories in this interactive travel journal. Colorful artwork and clever text help prompt creative contributions from budding writers and artists. What's inside? Lined pages for writing, blank pages for drawing, games, activities and simple recipes, facts such as landmarks and symbols (and even a little history) and more! With its sturdy, lay-flat format, this journal is perfect for recording everything...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Children will enjoy recording their thoughts and memories in this interactive travel journal. Colorful artwork and clever text help prompt creative contributions from budding writers and artists. What's inside? Lined pages for writing, blank pages for drawing, games, activities and simple recipes, facts such as landmarks and symbols (and even a little history) and more! With its sturdy, lay-flat format, this journal is perfect for recording everything...
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