Just Write

Author : James Scott Bell
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781599639703

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Just Write by James Scott Bell Pdf

Enthrall your readers, love the process, & become the writer you are meant to be! Writers are given a wealthy of opportunities to cultivate a successful writing life, break out, and find an audience for their work. Yet so many writers, from beginners to veterans, find their careers stuck in neutral. The solution is simple: Just write. Write yourself past fears, doubts, and setbacks, and use your desire for writing excellence to deeply immerse yourself in the craft. In Just Write, best-selling author and veteran writing coach James Scott Bell shows you how to develop unforgettable stories while leading a rewarding writing life. You'll learn how to master the nuances of fiction, discover what readers really want, and persevere through the challenges of getting started, conquering writer's block, and dealing with rejection. Look inside to discover how to: • Brainstorm new concepts for your fiction and develop a believable premise. • Create memorable characters that keep your readers coming back for more. • Study classic & contemporary novels to improve your writing. • Effectively market yourself as a writer. • Manage your time to maintain peak efficiency. Fulfilling writing careers are developed through hard work, an investment in practice, and complete dedication to the process. Don't succumb to excuses or procrastination. Dive into your career with gusto and enthusiasm. Fall in love with writing every day. Just write.

Author : Elsie S. Wilmerding,Eps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-05
Category : Composition (Language arts)
ISBN : 0838826253

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Just Write Student Book 1 Grade 2 by Elsie S. Wilmerding,Eps Pdf

A structured approach to creative writing, Just Write guides students through the writing process from initial idea to final edited and published narrative. Models are provided and students are encouraged to be creative.

Author : Greta Solomon
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780335246007

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EBOOK: Just Write It! by Greta Solomon Pdf

Just Write It! is a writing skills book with a difference. It teaches students to unblock their preconceptions and negative thoughts about writing. This helps them to achieve the marks that they are capable of and to realize their full potential. Authored by a professional writer and writing coach, this book uses a proven method and set of techniques that unlock creativity and teach students to fully articulate their thoughts and tackle any written task. Quizzes, exercises and checklists allow students to assess their current writing behaviour and track their improvement. Students are first introduced to general skills and techniques before learning how to apply these skills to the most common types of writing they are likely to face. This unique book covers topics including: Developing a positive attitude to writing Using objects to kick-start creativity Generating ideas and turning them into arguments Applying your new knowledge to essays, dissertations, reports and articles Writing your way to your dream job "The biggest stumbling block for some students is their writing skills, yet the ability to articulate yourself in writing is vital for success. Just Write It! is a reader-friendly, step by step book, which demystifies academic writing and breaks the process down into bite-sized chunks. It gives great practical advice in simple stages, which guide the reader to developing their writing skills." Vanessa Heaslip, Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing, Bournemouth University, UK "This is a well-designed book to support undergraduates through their university journey. It is user-friendly with its clear, easy to follow structure. This book is a great support mechanism to help undergraduates to achieve. I highly recommend this text - it is an essential resource for undergraduates!" Emma Jackson, University of Worcester, UK

Author : Anne Lamott
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780307424983

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Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An essential volume for generations of writers young and old. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this modern classic will continue to spark creative minds for years to come. Anne Lamott is "a warm, generous, and hilarious guide through the writer’s world and its treacherous swamps" (Los Angeles Times). “Superb writing advice…. Hilarious, helpful, and provocative.” —The New York Times Book Review For a quarter century, more than a million readers—scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities—have been inspired by Anne Lamott’s hilarious, big-hearted, homespun advice. Advice that begins with the simple words of wisdom passed down from Anne’s father—also a writer—in the iconic passage that gives the book its title: “Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, ‘Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.’”

Author : Walter Dean Myers
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780062203915

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Just Write: Here's How! by Walter Dean Myers Pdf

After writing more than one hundred books, it still amazes me that I have been lucky enough to spend most of my life doing what I truly love: writing. What makes a writer? The desire to tell a story, a love of language, an eye for detail, practice, practice, practice. How well should you know your characters? Do you need to outline before you write? How important is length? Now Walter Dean Myers, the new National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and New York Times bestselling and award-winning author, walks you through the writing process. Includes: Examples from his writing and reading experiences Walter's six-box and four-box outlines for writing fiction and nonfiction Excerpted pages from Walter's own notebooks An afterword by Ross Workman, Walter's teen coauthor of kick Writing tips from both Walter and Ross Anyone can be a writer, with a little help from Walter Dean Myers!

Author : Elsie Wilmerding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0838826296

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Just Write by Elsie Wilmerding Pdf

A structured approach to creative writing, Just Write guides students through the writing process from initial idea to final edited and published narrative. Models are provided and students are encouraged to be creative.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781913724269

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Why I Write by George Orwell Pdf

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Author : Verlyn Klinkenborg
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780307279415

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Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg Pdf

An indispensable and distinctive book that will help anyone who wants to write, write better, or have a clearer understanding of what it means for them to be writing, from widely admired writer and teacher Verlyn Klinkenborg. Klinkenborg believes that most of our received wisdom about how writing works is not only wrong but an obstacle to our ability to write. In Several Short Sentences About Writing, he sets out to help us unlearn that “wisdom”—about genius, about creativity, about writer’s block, topic sentences, and outline—and understand that writing is just as much about thinking, noticing, and learning what it means to be involved in the act of writing. There is no gospel, no orthodoxy, no dogma in this book. Instead it is a gathering of starting points in a journey toward lively, lucid, satisfying self-expression.

Author : Carpe Diem
Publisher : Carpe Diem
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-23
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781386589556

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Just Write (EPUB) by Carpe Diem Pdf

Just write. Does it have to be more complicated than this? Yet, as writers, we find all sorts of obstacles to put in our path. When struggling, this simple affirmation can get the words flowing and unlock hidden potential we did not know existed. Approximately 4,200 words.

Author : Sylvia Gunnery
Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 1551381036

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Just Write! by Sylvia Gunnery Pdf

"Simple, provocative workshops to motivate students in grades 7-12 to write fiction, non-fiction, poetry and more. A thorough analysis of all stages of the writing process" Cf. Our choice, 1999-2000

Author : James Scott Bell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781599639727

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Just Write by James Scott Bell Pdf

Enthrall your readers, love the process, & become the writer you are meant to be! Writers are given a wealthy of opportunities to cultivate a successful writing life, break out, and find an audience for their work. Yet so many writers, from beginners to veterans, find their careers stuck in neutral. The solution is simple: Just write. Write yourself past fears, doubts, and setbacks, and use your desire for writing excellence to deeply immerse yourself in the craft. In Just Write, best-selling author and veteran writing coach James Scott Bell shows you how to develop unforgettable stories while leading a rewarding writing life. You'll learn how to master the nuances of fiction, discover what readers really want, and persevere through the challenges of getting started, conquering writer's block, and dealing with rejection. Look inside to discover how to: • Brainstorm new concepts for your fiction and develop a believable premise. • Create memorable characters that keep your readers coming back for more. • Study classic & contemporary novels to improve your writing. • Effectively market yourself as a writer. • Manage your time to maintain peak efficiency. Fulfilling writing careers are developed through hard work, an investment in practice, and complete dedication to the process. Don't succumb to excuses or procrastination. Dive into your career with gusto and enthusiasm. Fall in love with writing every day. Just write.

Author : Bill Kirton,Kathleen M McMillan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134154593

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Just Write by Bill Kirton,Kathleen M McMillan Pdf

This is a basic, short guide that helps students make the transition to writing at college or university as simple as possible, providing them with the basic skills they need to write in an effective academic style. The authors draw on their own work to demystify the academic writing process that many students, in all disciplines, find daunting. By understanding exactly what obstacles students face when approaching writing at university they offer proven advice that is simple, uncomplicated and easily achievable. Clear and accessible, this book gives students step-by-step advice to overcome the main hurdles. It covers: overcoming apprehension – then making sure you know exactly what you are supposed to do planning reading – managing your time and keeping your focus, helping you get the material that needs to be in your work getting organised – you are ready to write the first draft, take a break and finally come back and edit it. Jargon-free, the book helps students at all levels of higher education to write clearly and persuasively, expressing both opinions and findings.

Author : Molly O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1423610121

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Just Write by Molly O'Shaughnessy Pdf

When you receive your daily mail do you jump to open the handwritten envelopes first? Handwritten correspondence stands out as more interesting and personal. Writing by hand is something we need to do to connect as human beings, so if you are trying to establish intimacy, it needs to go beyond a screen. Just Write is a beautifully detailed guide to composing the perfect note. Molly O'Shaughnessy offers tips and solutions to creating memorable sentiments for every occasion, from birthdays to anniversaries to business. Just Write is written for the beginning/interested writer who doesn't quite know what to say, but it also appeals to longtime letter writers who are still looking to advance their techniques. Molly O'Shaughnessy owns Just Write, a company that designs invitations and personalized stationery, which she started as an expression of her love of written correspondence. She lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Author : Solomon, Greta
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335245994

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Just Write It! by Solomon, Greta Pdf

Just write it! helps to bolster confidence and motivation and dispell negative thoughts. Students will develop a positive attitude towards writing using methods that can be applied to various types of written work.

Author : Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī
Publisher : Satsvarupa dasa Goswami
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Hare Krishnas
ISBN : 9780911233292

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Every Day, Just Write by Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī Pdf