A Writer's Notebook

2010-08-24
A Writer's Notebook

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

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

2009
The Writer's Notebook

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  • Author:
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  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 284

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

2017-08-29
Writing Radar

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

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

Notebook Know-how

2005
Notebook Know-how

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

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

2005-09
The Essential Writer's Notebook

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

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.

Writers and Their Notebooks

2018-05-01
Writers and Their Notebooks

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

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.

A Writer's Notebook

2012-02-15
A Writer's Notebook

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

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.

The Writer Within You

2007
The Writer Within You

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

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.

The Writer's Notebook II

2012-10-23
The Writer's Notebook II

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  • Author: Christopher Beha
  • Publisher: Tin House Books
  • ISBN: 1935639463
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 258

The Writer's Notebook II offers aspiring authors sixteen insightful essays about the craft of writing by Tin House authors and summer workshop faculty members, including Aimee Bender, Steve Almond, Maggie Nelson, Karen Russell, Benjamin Percy, and others. The Writer's Notebook II continues in the tradition of The Writer's Notebook, featuring essays based on craft seminars from the Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop, as well as a variety of craft essays from Tin House magazine contributors and Tin House Books authors. The collection includes essays that not only examine important craft aspects such as humor, suspense, and research but that also explore creating fractured and nonrealist narratives and the role of dream in fiction. An engaging and enlightening read, The Writer's Notebook II is both a toolkit and an inspiration for any writer. The Writer’s Notebook II offers aspiring authors sixteen insightful essays about the craft of writing by Tin House authors and summer workshop faculty members, including Aimee Bender, Steve Almond, Maggie Nelson, Karen Russell, Benjamin Percy, and others.

The Writer's Notebook

1995
The Writer's Notebook

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

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.