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This live workshop recording by writer, poet, and teacher Natalie Goldberg includes new writing exercises and support for writers, plus groundbreaking advice on structure, not addressed in her best-selling books Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind. “You create the universe,” she says. Also included, Natalie reads the introduction to her book Long Quiet Highway.

Making Your Story Better is the subject of this original audio workshop. Michael Hauge and Christopher Vogler, two superstar screenwriting teachers, conduct a point/counterpoint discussion of what makes a great story tick, presenting their unique approaches to story structure, character arc, and how to give your story greater commercial appeal.

This delightful workshop by Christopher Vogler, author of The Writer's Journey, was recorded live at a Writers' League of Texas seminar. It covers how you can use the myths and fairytales that link us all to give your story more oomph. Get ready to laugh while you learn because the speaker is a natural storyteller and a witty observer of life. Whether you're creating a screenplay, a novel, a play, a computer game, a puppet show or just an entry in your journal, your story will be richer, it will touch more people and it will have more meaning and depth after you listen to Chris Vogler's talk.

Welcome to Mumbai! Discover the history and evolution of Mumbai, from tribal islands of the Stone Age to one of the largest cities of the 21st century!

The House That Joy Built is about how to give ourselves permission to be creative. It explores all the big fears that can block our creativity, and the permission we can meet those fears with – not simply to create, but to revel in the life-changing wonder and joy of doing so. It offers a jump-start for anyone whose desire to create is ruled by fear. In lyrical, inspirational prose, Holly Ringland examines her own sometimes difficult journey to a successful writing career and offers a wealth of encouragement for anyone who wants to unlock their imagination.

An Observer ‘book to look out for’ in 2026 A New Scientist pick for 2026 The Surge is a timely, gripping account of humanity’s battle against rising waters — and the urgent choices we must make for our future. Rising waters are flooding cities and homes across the globe, from Florida to...

In Writing Rediscovered, author and writing scholar Elizabeth Wardle invites you to transform your approach to writing through nine powerful "threshold concepts." These foundational ideas will reshape how you think, feel, and act as a writer.

At more than 100 million user accounts created and over $10 billion made, it is not only the most-subscribed MMORPG in the world, but the highest-grossing video game of all time. Ten years after its launch, Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft is less a game and more a world unto itself, and it's a world Daniel Lisi knows well. More time in his high school years was spent in Azeroth than in his hometown of Irvine, California—a home he happened to share with Blizzard itself.

In The Confidence to Write, Liz argues that we can help students reset their writerly self-regard by naming and examining their writing identity through practical activities she calls Metawrites. Metawrites are writing prompts that serve as invitations to students to think and write about their own writing. Woven throughout the book, along with commentary and advice from professional writers, Metawrites inspire students to confront and overcome the “I can’t write” mentality.

La storia dell'editoria è la storia dell'emancipazione di un mestiere da un altro. Questo volume delinea tale parabola, ponendo in rilievo la relazione che intercorre fra libri e società, industria editoriale e storia nazionale. Ripercorrendo le vicende di alcune case editrici - fra cui Zanichelli, Treves, Bemporad, Hoepli, Laterza, Mondadori, Einaudi, Feltrinelli, Adelphi, Sellerio - e concentrando l'attenzione su alcune questioni trasversali alla loro attività, traccia un quadro non solo dell'editoria italiana, ma anche dell'Italia dei libri dall'età liberale a quella repubblicana.

رفيق الكاتب المبتدئ والمحترف على حد سواء. يقدم هذا الدليل الشامل مجموعة متنوعة من الأدوات والتقنيات التي تساعد الكاتب على تطوير مهاراته وتحسين أدائه. سواء كنت ترغب في كتابة القصة القصيرة، الرواية، المقال، أو أي نوع آخر من الكتابة، فإن هذا الدليل يوفر لك الخبرة والمعرفة اللازمتين.

Em O Livro Secreto do Escritor, você será convidado a: mergulhar nos bastidores da literatura ao marketing digital; fazer exercícios para traçar sua personalidade na escrita e marca pessoal; entender como funciona a lista dos mais vendidos; todas as etapas da produção de um livro, leitura crítica, direito autoral, caminhos da publicação e como distribuir e divulgar o livro no Brasil e no exterior.

Scrittori e scrittrici non si nasce, si diventa, soprattutto attraverso la capacità di sospendere il giudizio su quell'edificio in costruzione, coi pavimenti ricoperti da calcinacci, che è il romanzo a cui stiamo lavorando. In questo «manuale di scrittura che parla poco di scrittura», Francesco Trento ci insegna a liberarci dalla mistica del talento, invitandoci ad allenare quindici qualità che sono state spesso determinanti nel costruire le carriere di scrittori e scrittrici di successo.

Estas son las memorias de Martin Baron como director del Washington Post, una mirada profunda y autorizada para comprender el deterioro de la democracia estadounidense en los últimos años, el papel de la prensa y los equilibrios de poder entre el mundo empresarial y político.

Melissa Lucashenko is one of Australia's most admired and awarded novelists. She is renowned for writing about ordinary Australians and the extraordinary lives they lead. This timely collection of essays and journalism - published together for the first time - spans two turbulent decades. With her trademark wit and wisdom, Lucashenko reflects on being caught in a siege, on the marginalised lives of prisoners and the urban poor, on Blak identity, Australian literature and on meeting her writing idol.

Nearly one hundred and seventy years have passed since Charlotte Brontë took her last breath, but astonishingly, witnesses to her life still survive. These were present as she penned the first lines of Jane Eyre, as she walked the cobbled streets of Haworth with her sisters, as she dined with William Makepeace Thackeray at his home in London or as she joined Arthur Bell Nicholls at the altar in the summer of 1854.

The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained...

THE INSIDE STORY OF THE DR MUNJED AL MUDERIS DEFAMATION TRIAL - a brilliantly told testament to the power of investigative journalism to hold institutions and individuals accountable It all started when a daughter asked her father 'Are there any risks?'. Investigative journalist Charlotte Grieve...

Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013, after nearly a dozen years leading The Boston Globe. Just seven months into his new job, Baron received explosive news: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, would buy the Post, marking a sudden end to control by the venerated family that had presided over the paper for 80 years. Just over two years later, Donald Trump won the presidency.

A mediados del siglo XIX, gracias a la invención de la fotografía y al desarrollo de la litografía, surgieron diarios, periódicos y revistas con ilustraciones que ocuparon un lugar importante en el impreso. El ejemplo más representativo es el semanario El Perú Ilustrado. En el libro El Perú Ilustrado. Semanario para las familias. Litografías y cultura visual en la posguerra (1887-1892), de Emma Patricia Victorio Cánovas, se investigan los argumentos que configuraron nuestra peruanidad a través de textos e imágenes que generaron sentimientos de pertenencia e identidad durante el periodo de posguerra.