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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Creativity: Theory History Practice offers important new perspectives on creativity in the light of contemporary critical theory & cultural history. Innovative in approach as well as argument the book crosses disciplinary boundaries & builds new bridges between the critical & the creative. It is organised in four parts: * Why creativity now? offers much-needed alternatives to both the Romantic stereotype of the creator as individual genius & the tendency of the modern creative industries to treat everything as a commodity. * Defining creativity creating definitions traces the changing meaning of create from religious ideas of divine creation from nothing to advertising notions of concept creation. It also examines the complex history & extraordinary versatility of terms such as imagination invention inspiration & originality. * Creation as myth story metaphor begins with modern re-tellings of early African American & Australian creation myths &
- picking up Biblical & evolutionary accounts along the way
- works round to scientific visions of the Big Bang bubble universes & cosmic soup. * Creative practices cultural processes is a critical anthology of materials chosen to promote fresh thinking about everything from changing constructions of literature & design to artificial intelligence & genetic engineering. Rob Pope takes significant steps forward in the process of rethinking a vexed yet vital concept all the while encouraging & equipping readers to continue the process in their own creative or re-creative ways. Creativity: Theory History Practice is invaluable for anyone with a live interest in exploring what creativity has been is currently & yet may be.

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I could hear Dennis talking to my ma. She was little he said. Little like me. But old. Older than you. Those words gave me a cold shock. I could see Dennis imagining fairies but old ones? When Bobbys mother moves the family into a rented house in the country a neighbour tells him that a child was once murdered there. Bobby doesnt care. All he wants is to get back to Dublin & to resume his wild life there stealing from the crowded shopping streets & racing stolen cars at night. But getting his old life back doesnt turn out to be so easy & the longer he spends in the old cottage the more convinced he becomes that something very strange is going on there. Was there really a murder? & if so was it the one he has been told about? ...

This book argues that the current financial turmoil signals a crisis in globalisation that will directly challenge the free market economic model. Graham Turner shows that the housing bubbles in the West were deliberately created to mask the damage inflicted by companies shifting production abroad in an attempt to boost profits. As these bubbles burst economic growth in many developed countries will inevitably tumble. The Japanese crisis of the 1990s shows that banks & governments may struggle to contain the fallout. The problem has not been limited to the US UK & Europe: housing bubbles have become endemic across wide swathes of emerging market economies. As the West slides these countries will see an implosion of their credit bubbles too shaking their faith in the free market. Turner is an experienced & successful economic forecaster whose opinions are sought by large international banks & top financial journalists. Drawing from his first hand experience of the Japanese property crash of the 1990s he presents his analysis in a clear & persuasive style showing that the end of housing market growth spells disaster for neoliberal globalisation. ...

The painless way to manage credit in todays financial landscape People with great credit scores are getting turned down for credit cards & loans for homes & cars. What do they need besides a good score? What are lenders looking for now that they are extremely risk-averse? Repairing broken or damaged credit is one thing but having to meet todays much stiffer credit standards requiring that consumers consistently manage their credit is another thing all together. Credit Management Kit For Dummies gives you answers to these questions & insight into these concerns & also walks you down the correct path to credit application approval. Youll discover major changes with the Credit CARD (Credit Accountability Responsibility & Disclosure) Act provisions & the new Consumer Financial Protection Legislation Agency; the effect of tightened credit markets on those with good marginal or bad credit; new rules & programs including Hope & Government options via the Obama Administration; the best ways to recover from mortgage related credit score hits; tips for minimizing damage after walking away from a home; credit score examples with new ranges; & much more.* The pros & cons of credit counselors* The quickest & most effective way to undo damage from identity theft* Advice & tips about adding information to a credit report & beefing-up thin credit* Guidance for evaluating your Credit Score in todays economy* Fannie Maes revised guidelines for purchasing mortgages* Information on significant others (boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse) & credit & debt sharing* IRS exceptions to the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act in a mortgage meltdown situation Not just for those who have bad credit & need to repair it Credit Management Kit For Dummies also serves as an invaluable resource for those with average credit who want or need to manage it to get a job reduce insurance costs qualify for banking products & more. ...

Credit Risk Management" will enable general bankers staff & credit analyst trainees to understand the basic information & principles underlying credit risk evaluation & to use those underlying principles to undertake an analysis of non financial & financial risks when preparing a credit proposal. Since the best loans are the ones that do not present problems during the repayment phase the authors also focus on elements relating to the proactive management of those loans during their inception. This book introduces: credit analysis approval & management processes; concepts of financial & non-financial risk; financial statement analysis including the use of ratio analysis; cash flow analysis & forecasting; & security enhancement & management procedures designed to legally & financially manage credit risk. Inspired by the basic entry level training courses that have been developed by major international banks worldwide the book will enable students & those already in the finance profession to gain an understanding of the basic information & principles of credit risk. It

Includes:: questions with answers study topics practical real world examples & text with an extensive bibliography."

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