“Make [your] characters want something right away—even if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.” —Kurt Vonnegut “‘The cat sat on the mat’ is not the beginning of a story, but ‘the cat sat on the dog’s mat’ is.” —John Le Carré Nothing is more inspiring for a beginning writer than listening to masters of the craft talk about the writing life. But if you can’t get Vladimir Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, and Gabriel García Márquez together at the Algonquin, The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop gives you the next best thing. Stephen Koch, former chair of Columbia University’s graduate creative writing program, presents a unique guide to the craft of fiction. Along with his own lucid observations and commonsense techniques, he weaves together wisdom, advice, and inspiring commentary from some of our greatest writers. Taking you from the moment of inspiration (keep a notebook with you at all times), to writing a first draft (do it quickly! you can always revise later), to figuring out a plot (plot always serves the story, not vice versa), Koch is a benevolent mentor, glad to dispense sound advice when you need it most. The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop belongs on every writer’s shelf, to be picked up and pored over for those moments when the muse needs a little help finding her way.

An anti-novel.' It opens with more than fifty prologues-including ones addressed 'To My Authorial Persona,' 'To the Critics,' and 'To Readers Who Will Perish If They Don't Know What the Novel Is About'-that are by turns philosophical, outrageous, ponderous, and cryptic. These pieces cover a range of topics from how the upcoming novel will be received to how to thwart 'skip-around readers' (by writing a book that's defies linearity!). The novel itself, is about a group of characters (some borrowed from other texts) who live on an estancia called 'la novella''

Una nueva recopilación de cuentos por la autora de De mayor quiero ser... feliz. Recomendado para niños y niñas que están en la escuela primaria. 3 historias con consejos prácticos para entender y evitar el bullying en las escuelas. El acoso escolar es un problema muy complejo y más frecuente de lo que pensamos. Por este motivo, es importante hablar de este tema con los niños antes de que les afecte, para que si se ven envueltos o presencian una situación de acoso estén mejor preparados. Cada una de estas tres historias se centra en uno de los distintos grupos que intervienen en el acoso escolar: los que lo sufren, los que lo provocan y los que lo presencian. En su nuevo libro, Anna Morató ( De mayor quiero ser... feliz) nos plantea reflexionar sobre el compañerismo, el empoderamiento, el respeto y la empatía, valores muy importantes para que nuestros hijos e hijas sepan cómo reaccionar ante situaciones de bullying.