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Writing Monsters

Philip Athans
Writing Monsters Book PDF

Author : Philip Athans
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781599638126

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Monsters are more than things that go bump in the night... Monsters are lurking in the woods, beneath the waves, and within our favorite books, films, and games--and there are good reasons why they appear so often. Monsters are manifestations of our fears and symbols of our society--not to mention they're a lot of fun--but each should serve a purpose and enhance the themes and tension in your fiction. In Writing Monsters, best-selling author Philip Athans uses classic examples from books, films, and the world around us to explore what makes monsters memorable--and terrifying. You'll learn what monsters can (and should) represent in your story and how to create monsters from the ground up. Writing Monsters includes: • In-depth discussions of where monsters come from, what they symbolize, and how to best portray them in fiction • Informative overviews of famous monsters, archetypes, and legendary creatures • A Monster Creation Form to help you create your monster from scratch • An annotated version of H.P. Lovecraft's chilling story "The Unnamable" Whether you write fantasy, science fiction, or horror, your vampires, ghouls, aliens, and trolls need to be both compelling and meaningful. With Writing Monsters, you can craft creatures that will wreak havoc in your stories and haunt your readers' imaginations--and nightmares.

Fight Write

Carla Hoch
Fight Write Book PDF

Author : Carla Hoch
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781440300738

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Whether a side-street skirmish or an all-out war, fight scenes bring action to the pages of every kind of fiction. But a poorly done or unbelievable fight scene can ruin a great book in an instant. In Fight Write you'll learn practical tips, terminology, and the science behind crafting realistic fight scenes for your fiction. Broken up into "Rounds," trained fighter and writer Carla Hoch guides you through the many factors you'll need to consider when developing battles and brawls. • In Round 1, you will consider how the Who, When, Where, and Why questions affect what type of fight scene you want to craft. • Round 2 delves into the human factors of biology (think fight or flight and adrenaline) and psychology (aggression and response to injuring or killing another person). • Round 3 explores different fighting styles that are appropriate for different situations: How would a character fight from a prone position versus being attacked in the street? What is the vocabulary used to describe these styles? • Round 4 considers weaponry and will guide you to select the best weapon for your characters, including nontraditional weapons of opportunity, while also thinking about the nitty-gritty details of using them. • In Round 5, you'll learn how to accurately describe realistic injuries sustained from the fights and certain weapons, and what kind of injuries will kill a character or render them unable to fight further. By taking into account where your character is in the world, when in history the fight is happening, what the character's motivation for fighting is, and much more, you'll be able write fight scenes unique to your plot and characters, all while satisfying your reader's discerning eye.

Here There Are Monsters

Amelinda Bérubé
Here There Are Monsters Book PDF

Author : Amelinda Bérubé
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781492671022

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The Blair Witch Project meets Imaginary Girls in this story of sisterhood turned toxic, imaginary monsters brought to life, and secrets that won't stay buried. Sixteen-year-old Skye is done playing the knight in shining armor for her insufferable younger sister, Deirdre. And moving across the country seems like the perfect chance to start over as someone different. In their isolated new neighborhood, Skye manages to fit in, but Deirdre withdraws from everyone, becoming fixated on the swampy woods behind their house and building monstrous sculptures out of sticks and bones. Then Deirdre disappears. And when something awful comes scratching at Skye's window in the middle of the night, claiming Skye's the only one who can save Deirdre, Skye knows she will stop at nothing to bring her sister home.

Monsters Among Us

Monica Rodden
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Author : Monica Rodden
Publisher : Crown Books for Young Readers
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780593125885

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Fans of Sadie and You will be riveted by this compulsively readable new thriller about a survivor of dating violence who uses her newfound awareness of everyday evil to hunt for a killer. When Catherine Ellers returns home after her first semester at college, she is seeking refuge from a night she can barely piece together, dreads remembering, and refuses to talk about. She tries to get back to normal, but just days later the murder of someone close to her tears away any illusion of safety. Catherine feels driven to face both violent events head on in hopes of finding the perpetrators and bringing them to justice with the help of her childhood friend, Henry. Then a stranger from college arrives with her lost coat, missing driver's license--and details to help fill in the gaps in her memory that could be the key to solving both mysteries. But who is Andrew Worthington and why is he offering to help her? And what other dangerous obsessions is her sleepy town hiding? Surrounded by secrets and lies, Catherine must unravel the truth--before this wolf in sheep's clothing strikes again.

Writing Mysteries, Movies, Monsters Stories, and More

Nancy Bentley,Donna Guthrie
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Author : Nancy Bentley,Donna Guthrie
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761314520

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Writing Mysteries, Movies, Monsters Stories, and More by Nancy Bentley,Donna Guthrie Pdf

Provides advice for writing fiction, short stories, mysteries, science fiction and fantasy, television and film, and humor including characterization, plot, themes, and marketing your finished product for publication.

A Monster Calls

Patrick Ness,Siobhan Dowd
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Author : Patrick Ness,Siobhan Dowd
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780763669096

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A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness,Siobhan Dowd Pdf

NOW A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor. At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting-- he’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It’s ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth. From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd-- whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself-- Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.

My Favorite Thing is Monsters

Emil Ferris
My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book PDF

Author : Emil Ferris
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781606999592

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My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris Pdf

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.

Writing Japanese Monsters: From the Files of The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies

John Lemay
Writing Japanese Monsters From the Files of The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies Book PDF

Author : John Lemay
Publisher : Bicep Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1734154667

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Writing Japanese Monsters: From the Files of The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies by John Lemay Pdf

Learn the secret histories behind Japanese movie monsters like Godzilla, Mothra, Gamera, and Ultraman and how talented screenwriters breathed creative life into the monsters well before the special effects technicians could!

Mostly Monsterly

Tammi Sauer
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Author : Tammi Sauer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416985860

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Mostly Monsterly by Tammi Sauer Pdf

Bernadette might seem like an ordinary monster, but sometimes she likes to do some very unmonsterlike things, like pick flowers. And pet kittens. And bake. When the time comes for Bernadette to go to Monster Academy, she's just a teensy bit nervous. Her classmates just don't understand her. They'd rather uproot trees than sing friendship songs. And they prefer fried snail goo to Bernadette's homemade cupcakes with sprinkles. Can Bernadette find a way to make friends at school and still be herself?

Mentors, Muses & Monsters

Elizabeth Benedict
Mentors Muses Monsters Book PDF

Author : Elizabeth Benedict
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781438443508

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Mentors, Muses & Monsters by Elizabeth Benedict Pdf

Thirty writers look back at the the people, events, and books that launched their literary lives.

Friends With The Monsters

Albany Walker
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Author : Albany Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1701806533

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Gather round close, for I have a secret to tell.Late at night, while everyone is sleeping, dreaming of white knights and fairytales. I'm making friends with the monsters. They call to me, like finds like, right? My biggest secret, I'm the scariest monster I know. I think I'm the bad guy. MFMM Reverse Harem novel with adult themes not recommended for those under 18.

The Laughing Monsters

Denis Johnson
The Laughing Monsters Book PDF

Author : Denis Johnson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443438018

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Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years’ absence, he returns to Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of money here during the country’s civil war, and, curious to see whether good luck will strike twice in the same place, Nair allows himself to be drawn back to a region he considers hopeless. Adriko is an African who styles himself a soldier of fortune and who claims to have served, at various times, the Ghanaian Army, the Kuwaiti Emiri Guard, and the American Green Berets. He’s probably broke now, but he remains, at thirty-six, as stirred by his own doubtful schemes as he was a decade ago. Although Nair believes some kind of money-making plan lies at the back of it all, Michael’s stated reason for inviting his friend to Freetown is that Nair should meet Michael’s fiancee, a college girl named Davidia from Colorado. Together the three set out to visit Michael’s clan in the Uganda-Congo borderland—but each of these travellers is keeping secrets from the others. Shadowed by Interpol, the Mossad, and MI-6, Nair gets mired in lust and betrayal in a landscape of frighteningly casual violence as he travels with Adriko and Davidia, gets smuggled into a war zone, kidnapped by the Congo Army, and terrorized by a self-proclaimed god ruling over a dying village. Their journey through a land abandoned by the future leads Adriko, Nair and Davidia to meet themselves not in a new light, but rather in a new darkness. A high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world, The Laughing Monsters shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game.

The Comfort of Monsters

Willa C. Richards
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Author : Willa C. Richards
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063053045

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Set in Milwaukee during the “Dahmer summer” of 1991, A remarkable debut novel for fans of Mary Gaitskill and Gillian Flynn about two sisters—one who disappears, and one who is left to pick up the pieces in the aftermath. In the summer of 1991, a teenage girl named Dee McBride vanished in the city of Milwaukee. Nearly thirty years later, her sister, Peg, is still haunted by her sister's disappearance. Their mother, on her deathbed, is desperate to find out what happened to Dee so the family hires a psychic to help find Dee’s body and bring them some semblance of peace. The appearance of the psychic plunges Peg back to the past, to those final carefree months when she last saw Dee—the summer the Journal Sentinel called “the deadliest . . . in the history of Milwaukee.” Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s heinous crimes dominated the headlines and overwhelmed local law enforcement. The disappearance of one girl was easily overlooked. Peg’s hazy recollections are far from easy for her to interpret, assess, or even keep clear in her mind. And now digging deep into her memory raises doubts and difficult—even terrifying—questions. Was there anything Peg could have done to prevent Dee’s disappearance? Who was really to blame for the family's loss? How often are our memories altered by the very act of voicing them? And what does it mean to bear witness in a world where even our own stories are inherently suspect? A heartbreaking page-turner, Willa C. Richards’ debut novel is the story of a broken family looking for answers in the face of the unknown, and asks us to reconsider the power and truth of memory.

Women and Other Monsters

Jess Zimmerman
Women and Other Monsters Book PDF

Author : Jess Zimmerman
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807054932

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Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman Pdf

A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more “monstrous” version of feminism The folklore that has shaped our dominant culture teems with frightening female creatures. In our language, in our stories (many written by men), we underline the idea that women who step out of bounds—who are angry or greedy or ambitious, who are overtly sexual or not sexy enough—aren’t just outside the norm. They’re unnatural. Monstrous. But maybe, the traits we’ve been told make us dangerous and undesirable are actually our greatest strengths. Through fresh analysis of 11 female monsters, including Medusa, the Harpies, the Furies, and the Sphinx, Jess Zimmerman takes us on an illuminating feminist journey through mythology. She guides women (and others) to reexamine their relationships with traits like hunger, anger, ugliness, and ambition, teaching readers to embrace a new image of the female hero: one that looks a lot like a monster, with the agency and power to match. Often, women try to avoid the feeling of monstrousness, of being grotesquely alien, by tamping down those qualities that we’re told fall outside the bounds of natural femininity. But monsters also get to do what other female characters—damsels, love interests, and even most heroines—do not. Monsters get to be complete, unrestrained, and larger than life. Today, women are becoming increasingly aware of the ways rules and socially constructed expectations have diminished us. After seeing where compliance gets us—harassed, shut out, and ruled by predators—women have never been more ready to become repellent, fearsome, and ravenous.

No Place for Monsters

Kory Merritt
No Place for Monsters Book PDF

Author : Kory Merritt
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 9780358128533

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No Place for Monsters by Kory Merritt Pdf

Cowslip Grove seems like the perfect place to raise a family until the children start disappearing. Nobody looks for the children because nobody can remember them. Nobody except Levi and Kat. Now they must figure out what terrible presence is taking the chilren and fight it to save the missing kids, before the whole town disappears.