A Writer's Notebook

Author: Ralph Fletcher
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062014935
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147

Book Description
Tap into your inner writer with this book of practical advice by the bestselling author of How Writers Work and the ALA Notable Book Fig Pudding. Writers are just like everyone else—except for one big difference. Most people go through life experiencing daily thoughts and feelings, noticing and observing the world around them. But writers record these thoughts and observations. They react. And they need a special place to record those reactions. Perfect for classrooms, A Writer’s Notebook gives budding writers a place to keep track of all the little things they notice every day. Young writers will love these useful tips for how to use notes and jottings to create stories and poems of their own.

The Writer's Notebook

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
The Writer's Notebook offers aspiring authors the most enlightening and engaging seminars and essays from some of Tin House's favorite writers. Jim Shepard, Aimee Bender, Steve Almond, Antonya Nelson and others break down specific elements of craft and share insights into the joys and pains of their own writing.

Writing Radar

Author: Jack Gantos
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
ISBN: 0374304564
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
Acclaimed author Jack Gantos's guide to becoming the best brilliant writer.

Notebook Know-how

Author: Aimee Elizabeth Buckner
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
ISBN: 1571104135
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description
Presents tips for elementary and middle school teachers on how to use writing notebooks to help students develop skills and habits associated with good writing.

The Essential Writer's Notebook

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Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN: 9780880882439
Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
This beautiful notebook, illustrated by the author's own paintings, provides the perfect opportunity for would-be writers, as well as those seeking a fresh approach to their work, to learn simple techniques that will help them master the basics of the craft. Inspired by the philosophy of Zen Buddhism, the book provides a complete step-by-step mini-course on how to write clearly and powerfully. Abundant lined pages can be used for writing practice.

The Writer's Notebook

Author: Howard Junker
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
Even award-winning writers begin with notes scrawled on the backs of old bills, on hotel stationery, and in spiral-bound notebooks. These humble beginnings are often awkward, halting, and unliterary. And they are usually kept private. Here sixteen acclaimed contemporary writers open their notebooks to reveal the first stages of their creative process.

Writers and Their Notebooks

Author: Diana M. Raab
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611179939
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Personal reflections on the vital role of the notebook in creative writing, from Dorianne Laux, Sue Grafton, John Dufresne, Kyoko Mori, and more. This collection of essays by established professional writers explores how their notebooks serve as their studios and workshops—places to collect, to play, and to make new discoveries with language, passions, and curiosities. For these diverse writers, the journal also serves as an ideal forum to develop their writing voice, whether crafting fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. Some include sample journal entries that have since developed into published pieces. Through their individual approaches to keeping a notebook, the contributors offer valuable advice, personal recollections, and a hearty endorsement of the value of using notebooks to document, develop, and nurture a writer’s creative spark.

The Writer Within You

Author: Charles Jacobs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
Provides information for older authors on coming up with ideas, writing fiction and non-fiction books, publishing and marketing a book, and writing and submitting magazine articles.

A Writer's Notebook

Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030781615X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
Filled with keen observations, autobiographical notes, and the seeds of many of Maugham's greatest works, A Writer's Notebook is a unique and exhilarating look into a great writer's mind at work. From nearly five decades, Somerset Maugham recorded an intimate journal. In it we see the budding of his incomparable vision and his remarkable career as a writer. Covering the years from his time as a youthful medical student in London to a seasoned world traveler around the world, it is playful, sharp witted, and always revealing. Undoubtedly one of his most significant works, A Writer's Notebook is a must for Maugham fans and anyone interested in the creative process.

Writer's Notebook

Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780749304331
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 85

Book Description
From 1892, when he was 18, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. Part autobiographical, part confessional, this is a collection of Maugham's observations, confidences, aspirations and arbitrary jottings.