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  • Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition

    How to Edit Yourself Into Print

    by Renni Browne, Dave King ...
    Hundreds of books have been written on the art of writing. Here at last is a book by two professional editors to teach writers the essential editing techniques of the trade that turn promising manuscripts into published novels and short stories.In this completely revised and updated second edition, Renni Browne and Dave King teach you, the writer, how to apply the professional book editing ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Conflict Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Obstacles, Adversaries, and Inner Struggles (Volume 1)

    by Becca Puglisi, Angela Ackerman ...
    Series Book 8 - Writers Helping Writers Series
    Every story starts with a character who is motivated by a need and has a goal that can resolve it. Whether their objective is to find a life partner, bring a killer to justice, overthrow a cruel regime, or something else, conflict transforms a story premise into something fresh. Physical obstacles, adversaries, moral dilemmas, deep-seated doubts and personal struggles…these not only block a ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD

  • The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression

    Second Edition

    by Becca Puglisi, Angela Ackerman ...
    Series Book 1 - Writers Helping Writers Series
    The bestselling Emotion Thesaurus, often hailed as “the gold standard for writers” and credited with transforming how writers craft emotion, has now been expanded to include 55 new entries!One of the biggest struggles for writers is how to convey emotion to readers in a unique and compelling way. When showing our characters’ feelings, we often use the first idea that comes to mind, and they end up ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD

  • The Emotional Craft of Fiction

    How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface

    by Donald Maass ...
    The essential guide to evoking emotional experiences in your readersWriters might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, but none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel.Veteran literary agent and expert fiction instructor Donald Maass shows you how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional experience in readers. You ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Steering The Craft

    A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    From the celebrated Ursula K. Le Guin, "a writer of enormous intelligence and wit, a master storyteller" (Boston Globe), the revised and updated edition of her classic guide to the essentials of a writer's craft.Completely revised and rewritten to address modern challenges and opportunities, this essential creative writing handbook is a short, deceptively simple guide to the craft of writing.Le ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Story Genius

    How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

    by Lisa Cron ...
    Following on the heels of Lisa Cron's breakout first book, Wired for Story, this writing guide reveals how to use cognitive storytelling strategies to build a scene-by-scene blueprint for a riveting story.It’s every novelist’s greatest fear: pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into writing hundreds of pages only to realize that their story has no sense of urgency, no internal logic, and so is a ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Stein On Writing

    A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies

    by Sol Stein ...
    Your future as a writer is in your hands. Whether you are a newcomer or an accomplished professional, a novelist, story writer, or a writer of nonfiction, you will find this book a wealth of immediately useful guidance not available anywhere else. As Sol Stein, renowned editor, author, and instructor, explains, "This is not a book of theory. It is a book of useable solutions-- how to fix writing ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Story Physics

    Harnessing the Underlying Forces of Storytelling

    by Larry Brooks ...
    Learn how to make your story soar!In the physical world, gravity, force, and other elements of physics govern your abilities and can be utilized to enhance your every movement. In the world of writing, story physics can be harnessed in much the same way to make your novel or screenplay the best it can be. In Story Physics, best-selling author Larry Brooks introduces you to six key literary forces ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Conflict Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Obstacles, Adversaries, and Inner Struggles (Volume 2)

    by Becca Puglisi, Angela Ackerman ...
    Series Book 9 - Writers Helping Writers Series
    A story where the character gets exactly what they want doesn’t make for good reading. But add villainous clashes, lost advantages, power struggles, and menacing threats…well, now we have the makings of a page-turner. Conflict is the golden thread that binds plot to arc, providing the complications, setbacks, and derailments that make the character’s inner and outer journeys dynamic.Inside Volume ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD

  • The Positive Trait Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Attributes

    by Becca Puglisi, Angela Ackerman ...
    Series Book 3 - Writers Helping Writers Series
    It’s a writer’s job to create compelling characters who can withstand life’s fallout without giving up. But building authentic, memorable heroes is no easy task. To forge realistic characters, we must hobble them with flaws that set them back while giving them positive attributes to help them achieve their goals. So how do writers choose the right blend of strengths for their characters—attributes ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD

  • Techniques of the Selling Writer

    by Dwight V. Swain ...
    Techniques of the Selling Writer provides solid instruction for people who want to write and sell fiction, not just to talk and study about it. It gives the background, insights, and specific procedures needed by all beginning writers. Here one can learn how to group words into copy that moves, movement into scenes, and scenes into stories; how to develop characters, how to revise and polish, and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Rock Your Revisions

    A Simple System for Revising Your Novel

    by Cathy Yardley ...
    Series series Rock Your Writing
    Do you feel overwhelmed trying to revise your novel?Faced with a hot mess of rough draft, maybe you feel confused, unsure of what to fix -- or rather, what to fix first!Editing fiction takes a slightly different mindset than writing the first rough pass of a novel. There are a lot of moving parts in a work of fiction. The trick is to not try and tackle everything at once.ROCK YOUR REVISIONS: A ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD