A lighthearted, illustrated guide takes readers through each step of the structuring process from identifying characters, to building conflict, to incorporating plotlines, in a resource that provides thousands of possible story combinations and a range of dramatic templates. Original.
In this comprehensive guide, author Victoria Lynn Schmidt examines cross-cultural archetypes to illustrate how they can make your work more powerful and compelling.
In this book, Coates explores the potential for narrative as a way of interpreting buildings from ancient history through to the present.
Book in a Month shows you how to: • Set realistic goals and monitor your progress • Manage your time so that your writing life has room to flourish • Select a story topic that will continue to inspire you throughout the writing ...
Author Hicks Stone, Edward Durell Stone's son, not only addresses a body of work that has been largely neglected if not outright misunderstood but also explores a complex, multidimensional, and often turbulent life.
This new book from the author of The Dramatic Writer's Companion approaches some of the same issues as its predecessor but from a slightly different angle.
He loves building too much to give it up! With Andrea Beaty’s irresistible rhyming text and David Roberts’s puckish illustrations, this book will charm creative kids everywhere, and amuse their sometimes bewildered parents.
" The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities.
Tomorrow afternoon, he planned to take Mangogo to lunch at Pearson's, Nottingham's poshest restaurant. How astounded those upper-crust patrons would be to see him dining alongside them! But nobody would ask him to leave; his spear, ...
A wonderful example of the opening thematic statement occurs in Joy Williams ' short story " Taking Care . " Jones , the central character , is a minister . He is taking care of his dying wife and of a child left in his charge by his ...
Storytelling Archetypes: Time-Tested Models for Writing Remarkable Novels and Short Stories