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2) Devotion
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In lyric essays, a story, poems, and photographs, Smith illuminates the whirl of chance and choice that stokes a writer's imagination, recounting her fascination on the eve of a trip to Paris with Simone Weil and an evocative, accidentally discovered film about Stalin's mass deportation of Estonians. In France, a gravestone, a televised figure-skating competition, a meal, and a garden all converge in what becomes Devotion, [a] ... fairy tale about...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In A Solemn Pleasure, Melissa Pritchard presents an undeniable case for both the power of language and the nurturing constancy of the writing life. This is nonfiction vividly engaged with the world, encompassing the author's journeys into the deeply interior imaginative life required to write fiction, a search for the lost legacy of American literature as embodied by Walt Whitman, reports from Afghanistan while embedded with a young female GI, tales...
4) Square
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
When his friend Circle asks him to do her portrait after praising him as a sculptor and genius, Square struggles to carve her likeness from a stone block.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Draft No. 4 is a master class on the writer's craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most esteemed writers of recent decades. McPhee offers definitive guidance in the decisions regarding arrangement, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces, and he presents extracts from his work,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Things are scary right now. We're all being swept along by a tidal wave of history, and it's easy to feel helpless. But we're not helpless: we have minds, and imaginations, and the ability to visualize other worlds and valiant struggles. And writing can be an act of resistance that reminds us that other futures and other ways of living are possible. Full of memoir, personal anecdote, and insight about how to flourish during the present emergency,...
Author
Publisher
dpunkt
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
1. Auflage.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (310 pages)
Language
Deutsch
Description
Sean Tuckers The meaning in the making hat sich international bislang über 8000x verkauft. Was sein Buch so packend macht, ist nicht nur der Schreibstil des begabten Redners und ehemaligen Pastors Tucker, sondern der breite Horizont zwischen Psychologie, Philosophie und Kunstgeschichte, den er in den 14 Kapiteln aufmacht und immer wieder mit seiner eigenen Biografie verknüpft. Was Tucker auf seinem Weg vom Musiker, Pastor und Kellner zum für...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A passionate and inspiring guide to creating a life built around the creative process.
This groundbreaking new work from the bestselling author of The Artist's Way, guides readers in creating a vision for their lives in which art and life are inextricably linked. According to Julia Cameron, when we allow our creative spirit to serve as our compass, we discover that the art we have always longed to create is suddenly within our...
This groundbreaking new work from the bestselling author of The Artist's Way, guides readers in creating a vision for their lives in which art and life are inextricably linked. According to Julia Cameron, when we allow our creative spirit to serve as our compass, we discover that the art we have always longed to create is suddenly within our...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day and then ages out. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable. The Creative...
Author
Language
English
Description
""Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores "what it means to be seen, to find someone...
Author
Publisher
Peachpit Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Right now on Facebook there are over 100 million people interested in topics directly related to the Advertising industry–and that's just in the United States alone. We know this because they've actively listed one or more of these things as interests under their real names right next to their profile photo. Unfortunately, the amount of people who hope to turn their creativity into a professional career wildly outnumber the very select few who actually...
Author
Publisher
Peachpit Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
You are unknowingly part of an underground army that gives the world new things every day. New designs, new looks, new features, and new ways for old things to work. Most of the world doesn't know where they come from, they just love to have them. Billions of dollars a year depend on creative people and thousands of companies hire them. This is where you come in. This is why the world needs you. Right now. Simply put, this book is about the business...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From bestselling author Ally Carter, the definitive guide to writing a novel for the NaNoRiMo generation, including helpful tips from other YA stars.Have you always wanted to write a book, but don't know where to start? Or maybe you're really great at writing the first few chapters . . . but you never quite make it to the end? Or do you finally have a finished manuscript, but you're not sure what to do next? Fear not — if you have writing-related...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch-- and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories."--From publisher description.
"Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot's Middlemarch, regarded by many as the greatest English novel. After gaining admission to Oxford,...
15) Creative writing
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (400 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Unlock your creative potential and write something special. Ever dream of writing a book, article, poem, or play that means something to you—and maybe to someone else as well? Do you have an idea you're ready to get down on paper? In Creative Writing For Dummies, you'll learn how to unleash your creative side and become a confident and productive writer. Discover the essential elements of storytelling, including structure, characterization, setting,...
16) Martyr!
Author
Language
English
Description
Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past-toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields...
Author
Publisher
Focal Press
Pub. Date
©2007
Edition
4th ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume)
Language
English
Description
Alternative Scriptwriting 4E is an insightful and inspiring book on screenwriting concerned with challenging you to take creative risks with genre, tone, character, and structure. Concerned with exploring alternative approaches beyond the traditional three-act structure, Alternative Scriptwriting first defines conventional approach, suggests alternatives, then provides case studies. These contemporary examples and case studies demonstrate what works,...
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"Contrary to popular belief, the practice of art isnt just a product of innate talent or artistic vision; artwork emerges from an intentionally constructed and maintained artistic practice. Developed from interviews with more than 75 mid-career artists, Creative Practices for Visual Artists examines the methods and approaches highly successful artists use to stay creatively robust for a lifetime. Offering practical strategies and concrete solutions,...
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