Creativity is becoming increasingly important in an age of advanced audience sophistication. It's no longer enough to follow standard writing techniques
- becoming a first-class screenwriter demands not only a command of craft but an understanding of how to unleash & harness creativity. The Creative Screenwriter" offers a wealth of inspiring writing exercises designed to help you produce better more exciting scripts. Each essential area of screenwriting is covered in its own chapter from learning how to build stories & finding good ideas to deepening characters & experimenting with structure to enhancing scene writing & improving pitching. Finally a range of innovative DIY Script Surgeries encourage you to find solutions to common screenwriting problems such as overcoming writer's block managing the rewrite & selling your work. This is a book to return to again & again. It is a guide for aspiring screenwriters who want to develop a powerful writing practice; a manual for teachers & students seeking discussion & reflection; a bible for professionals wanting to hone their craft & solve script struggles. It will rekindle the creative spark; remind you of why you love writing; & help to express the stories you want to tell
- & sell!"

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A treasury of all-time favourite soft toys to make: clutch toys a family of mice nursery rhyme characters a rag doll elephants animal backpacks & more. This work

Includes:: easy to follow instructions & patterns & projects that can be made without a sewing machine.

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Creative Visualization has been successfully used in the fields of health education business sports & the arts for many years. Gawain explains how to use mental imagery & affirmations to produce positive changes in ones life. The book contains meditations & exercises that are aimed at helping the practitioner channel energies in positive directions strengthen self-esteem improve overall health & experience deep relaxation. This is the book that launched a movement. Creative visualization works. Oprah Winfrey ...

The secret to getting exactly what you want from life -- from the man who has! A businessman who has built up owned & sold software companies a nightclub a bed & breakfast (plus a couple of alehouses) author Robin Nixon knows that worldly success has little to do with the world. It begins with one's self--and one's deepest thoughts. When altered your thoughts have the ability to impact your behavior & immediate universe & indeed your destiny. Known as Creative Visualization " this powerfully simple tool has adherents as well known as Oprah Winfrey. In Creative Visualization For Dummies Robin Nixon gives you the practical tools for pinpointing your goals becoming more assertive & self-confident & increasing energy levels & creativity--while on a new journey of self-fulfillment.

Includes:: useful visualization techniques & exercises that help you tune into the mind/body connection Offers psychological approaches that allow you to take real steps towards success & happiness For those interested in finding a new direction or finally creating their own luck this tell-all guide--from the man who's capitalized on its secrets--will offer an inspiring game plan for a new beginning."

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This lively full-colour illustrated craft book shows how to make a range of handicrafts from fleece & yarn including toys friendship bracelets & braids balls pompoms dolls dolls' clothes & animals. With clear diagrams & step-by-step instructions the book starts by introducing children to basic methods of spinning yarn crocheting knitting & felting. There is a broad range of projects for children of all ages to complete working together with adults. ...

Overcome Creative Block" & Break Out of Your Norm! Every artist struggles with creativity at one time or another. Creative Workshop Watercolor & Acrylic will help you the watercolor artist explore your creativity & stretch your boundaries while still making the realistic & semi-realistic art that you love to paint. This book is chock-full of hands-on projects techniques & strategies to get you thinking beyond your self-imposed creative boundaries. Mark Mehaffey an experience friendly teacher begins with the basics of designing a strong painting with shape value & color. Once youve mastered these keys to any successful painting-regardless of style-you will have the confidence to be more creative! Mehaffey will show you practical techniques & lead you in experiments with color composition painting surfaces methods of applying paint & more. This book offers creative exercises for every skill level & comfort level as well as demonstrations painting critiques weak/strong comparisons & examples by Mehaffey & a variety of other accomplished artists. With this book in your studio youll be encouraged to have fun while creating wonderful art. In no time you will have a variety of tools for jump-starting your creativity & painting with confidence!

Includes:: bonus DVD on watercolor painting on Yupo (r)!"

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This book is an excellent guide for writers who are starting out or writers who are looking for ways to improve broaden & vary their writing. It focuses on fiction & fiction genre
- science romance horror & crime. It teaches how to create characters set atmosphere develop dialogue & create suspense. The book also covers non-fiction in particular the ways to draw on personal experience to write articles on a wide variety of topics in a number of different styles. There is a chapter on writing for children teaching the specialist skills that
- once mastered
- bring enormous satisfaction to both the writer & the reader. The internets impact on the creative writer & the opportunities it presents are explored & described &
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- there is also a chapter on how to present your work to a publisher & get it into print.




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Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings" is a complete writing course that will jump-start your writing & guide you through your first steps towards publication. Suitable for use by students tutors writers groups or writers working alone this book offers: a practical & inspiring section on the creative process showing you how to stimulate your creativity & use your memory & experience in inventive ways; an in-depth coverage of the most popular forms of writing in extended sections on fiction poetry & life writing including biography & autobiography giving you practice in all three forms so that you might discover & develop your particular strengths; a sensible up-to-date guide to going public to help you to edit your work to a professional standard & to identify & approach suitable publishers. It also offers: a distinctive collection of exciting exercises spread throughout the workbook to spark your imagination & increase your technical flexibility & control; a substantial array of illuminating readings bringing together extracts from contemporary & classic writings in order to demonstrate a range of techniques that you can use or adapt in your own work. " Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings" presents a unique opportunity to benefit from the advice & experience of a team of published authors who have also taught successful writing courses at a wide range of institutions helping large numbers of new writers to develop their talents as well as their abilities to evaluate & polish their work to professional standards. These institutions include Lancaster University & the University of East Anglia renowned as consistent producers of published writers." ...

Do you have an idea that youre burning to get down on paper? Do you want to document your travels to far-flung places or write a few stanzas of poetry? Whether you dream of being a novelist a travel writer a poet a playwright or a columnist Creative Writing For Dummies shows you how to unlock your creativity & choose the genre of writing that suits you best. Walking you through characterisation setting dialogue & plot as well as giving expert insights into both fiction & non-fiction its the ideal launching pad to the world of creative writing. Creative Writing For Dummies covers: Part I: Getting started * Chapter 1: Can Everyone Write?* Chapter 2: Getting into the Write Mind* Chapter 3: Finding the Material to work with Part II: The Elements of Creative Writing * Chapter 4: Creating Characters* Chapter 5: Discovering Dialogue* Chapter 6: Who is telling the story?* Chapter 7: Creating your own world* Chapter 8: Plotting your way* Chapter 9: Creating a Structure* Chapter 10: Rewriting & editing Part III: Different Kinds of Fiction Writing* Chapter 11: Short stories* Chapter 12: Novels* Chapter 13: Writing for children* Chapter 14: Plays* Chapter 15: Screenplays* Chapter 16: Poetry Part IV: Different kinds of Non-fiction writing * Chapter 17: Breaking into journalism
- Writing articles/ magazine writing* Chapter 18: Writing from life & autobiography* Chapter 19: Embroidering the facts: Narrative non-fiction* Chapter 20: Exploring the world from your armchair
- Travel writing* Chapter 21: Blogging
- the new big thing Part V: Finding an audience * Chapter 22: Finding editors/ publishers/ agents * Chapter 23: Becoming a professional Part VI: Part of Tens * Chapter 24: Ten top tips for writers * Chapter 25: Ten ways to get noticed


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An inspiring range of approaches to enrich your writing skills. Packed with stimulating writing exercises numerous"es & over 30 extracts from literature across a wide variety of genres the book can be followed as a complete course or dipped into throughout. Accessibly written by three published writers & experienced teachers from leading creative writing institutions this is a rich sourcebook of techniques containing: challenging writing exercises to expand the writers technique & voiceinnovative ways of developing fiction & poetry stylesin-depth introductions to stage radio & film writinginsights into the way different genres interact & how to adapt stories for performanceadvice on layout & professional presentation of work What is beguiling about the writing is the style
- these are not academic propositions: they are translations from experience & practice" David Morley Professor in Creative Writing Warwick University"
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