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No one comes out of a movie talking about structure. What audiences love and remember about a movie are great scenes. Marlon Brando in the back seat in On the Waterfront giving his "I could'a been a contender" speech. Meg Ryan's fake orgasm in Katz's Deli in When Harry Met Sally with the climactic punch line: "I'll have what she's having." In Superbad, Jonah Hill professing "I love you" to his friend Michael Cera by touching his nose with a "boop".

This is it. This is where it all begins. You need to have the contents of this document internalized before you can have any hope of becoming a proficient writer. Don’t even consider skipping this manual by saying “I know how to write. I don’t need this skimpy guide.” I made this book skimpy for a reason! So you’d read it! And for those of you who are brand new to writing in English, this document will elevate you gently from the ground floor to the lofty heights of literary perfection. What’s my point? Don’t skip this book, any of you! This book is separated into six chapters...

Are you a self-published author, but you're not selling books? Perhaps instead, you have yet to self-publish but want to be prepared to market and promote your book when you do. In either case, you've come to the right place to learn how to market and promote your self-published book. Hi, my name is Brian Jackson. I'm the author of over one dozen books. I'm also the publisher of over 100 books. Most of the books I've published were written by my wife, Melanie Jackson. Finally, I'm an instructor with around 50 online training videos published and 125 thousand students on a site named Udemy. ...

Introducing “Overcoming Writer’s Block: The Guide to Unleashing Your Creative Juices!” Are you a budding writer who has struggled to find the right words or felt stuck staring at a blank page? Fear not, for this book will guide you through overcoming writer’s block! In “Overcoming Writer’s Block,” you will explore writers’ challenges and discover effective strategies to unleash creativity. With clear and practical advice, this book helps you break through the barriers that hinder your writing progress. Through concise and engaging chapters, you will: Understand the root ...

This is a book about publishing a book. Your book. It provides both a breadth and depth overview of the Amazon self-publishing world. It contains all the important details on where to self-publish your book and how to self-publish your book. This advice summarizes my seven years as a self-published author of over 100 Amazon books. This book favors self-publishing over the traditional agent and editor model. It is a complete do-it-yourself road-map to self-publishing your work. Manuscript Formatting Microsoft Word 2016 In this chapter, I explain how to use Microsoft Word 2016 to format your ...

For anyone who's trying to make sense of their life, who wants to get unstuck from the patterns that hold them back, hear this incredible news: everything you need for the freedom you want is entirely within reach. This practice and pathway is free, it's readily available every day of your life, it takes just minutes of your time, and anyone can do it.

Ready to take your story's character arcs and themes to the next level? This latest book from veteran writing teacher and story theorist K.M. Weiland ventures far beyond the popular and pervasive Hero's Journey to explore six important archetypal character arcs, representing key moments of initiation in the human experience.

Steve Almond shares the insights gleaned from three decades as a beloved teacher and mentor, and a considerably less-beloved literary rabble rouser. His tone is irreverent. His ideas are iconoclastic. And his approach is stubbornly, radically, empathic. The goal is to explode the well-meaning but misguided myths that hold us back from writing our deepest and most honest work, to awaken the joys of storytelling while also confronting how grueling the process can be.

In Fiction Writing 101, you’ll find a complete guide to nailing a successful book—from the seed of an idea right through to the finished manuscript....

An assemblage of reflections on the nature of writing and the writer from one the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Throughout Hemingway’s career as a writer, he maintained that it was bad luck to talk about writing - that it takes off “whatever butterflies have on their wings and the arrangement of hawk’s feathers if you show it or talk about it”.

Flash fiction is changing the way we tell stories. Carving away the excess, eliminating all but the most essential, flash fiction is putting the story through a literary dehydrator, leaving the meat without the fat. And it only looks easy. Enter Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction. In this, her treatise on the form, veteran writer Nancy Stohlman takes us on a flash fiction journey: from creating, sculpting, revising, and collecting stories to best practices for writers in any genre.

Feeling stifled by "shoulds" and yearning to find your authentic voice? Uncork your creativity with Brenda Ueland's timeless classic, "If You Want to Write." Originally published in 1938, this inspiring guide is more than just craft tips; it's a passionate manifesto for artistic independence. Ueland, a mentor to writers like Anaïs Nin and Flannery O'Connor, believes everyone has a unique story to tell and urges you to silence self-doubt and embrace the inherent joy of writing.

From 1918 to 1941, even as she penned masterpiece upon masterpiece, Virginia Woolf kept a diary. She poured into it her thoughts, feelings, concerns, objections, interests, and disappointments -resulting in 26 volumes that give unprecedented insight into the mind of a genius. Collected here are the passages most relevant to her work and writing.

Na melhor tradição do novo jornalismo, Adriano Wilkson constrói uma história vibrante e dramática, cheia de personagens de carne e osso (e músculos) inesquecíveis, em que o ringue onde as batalhas se desenrolam se torna uma alegoria dos percalços que a vida impõe a milhões de brasileiros. Acácio Pequeno precisa evaporar de seu corpo cerca de três litros de água para ter acesso à luta mais importante de sua carreira.

Learn How You Can Start Making Money By Publishing Books Today. Even if you're a complete novice, even if you're not a tech guru, and yes, even if you're an 80-year-old grandma. This book is your easy guide to learn how to write better and faster than ever by harnessing the power of ChatGPT.

With over twenty years of personal experience in sales training, operations, and sales leadership, Richard Harris is ready to help you do just that. The Seller’s Journey is your guidebook to Richard’s N.E.A.T Selling philosophy, methodology, and process. By bringing together his thirteen sales tactics with insights from psychology and his own life, Harris provides you with a sales compass that helps to orient you on your own journey and bring your own authentic self to the process.

Best-selling author Elizabeth George has spent years teaching writing, and in Write Away, she shares her knowledge of the creative process. George combines clear, intelligent, and functional advice on fiction writing with anecdotes from her own life, the story of her journey to publication, and inside information on how she meticulously researches and writes her novels.

In Losing the News, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex S. Jones offers a probing look at the epochal changes sweeping the media, changes which are eroding the core news that has been the essential food supply of our democracy. Losing the News depicts an unsettling situation in which the American birthright of fact-based, reported news is in danger. But it is also a call to arms to fight to keep the core of news intact.

With the expert guidance of screenplay consultant, story editor, and teacher Michael Hauge, you'll learn how to elicit emotion (your primary goal), create strong characters, structure your stories, and conquer the business side of Hollywood. Plus, you'll get groundbreaking information on "feminine mode" movies, a unique approach to character growth and guidance on your life as a screenwriter.

The Write Structure uncovers the hidden truths of the best stories, allowing new and advanced writers to better understand their own stories and make them better.