Welcome to the Writer's Life
Title | Welcome to the Writer's Life PDF eBook |
Author | Paulette Perhach |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018-08-14 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1632171511 |
Learn how to take your work to the next level with this informative guide on the craft, business, and lifestyle of writing With warmth and humor, Paulette Perhach welcomes you into the writer’s life as someone who has once been on the outside looking in. Like a freshman orientation for writers, this book includes an in-depth exploration of all the elements of being a writer—from your writing practice to your reading practice, from your writing craft to the all-important and often-overlooked business of writing. In Welcome to the Writer’s Life, you will learn how to tap into the powers of crowdsourcing and social media to grow your writing career. Perhach also unpacks the latest research on success, gamification, and lifestyle design, demonstrating how you can use these findings to further improve your writing projects. Complete with exercises, tools, checklists, infographics, and behind-the-scenes tips from working writers of all types, this book offers everything you need to jump-start a successful writing life.
The True Writer's Life
Title | The True Writer's Life PDF eBook |
Author | William Lee Ballard |
Publisher | FriesenPress |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2014-07-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1460244184 |
This book has the potential to transform aspiring writers into published authors! Inside every reader is a writer, and inside every writer is a spiritual being, but even deeper than that, every spiritual being has the ability to tap into the mind and heart of God. Where does writing come from? Where do the ideas come from? How can you, as a writer, never worry about where your next idea, book, or blog is going to come from? This book answers those questions with profound insight and wisdom. There is a way to discover an endless vast of ideas and thoughts that can heal the world and change lives. The True Writer’s Life: Discovering the Author and Finisher of Our Faith is more than just discovering that you are a writer. It is discovering the Spirit of writing that dwells within you.
Tell Me True
Title | Tell Me True PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Hampl |
Publisher | Minnesota Historical Society |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2008-10-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0873517032 |
Fourteen accomplished writers investigate the tantalizing gray area where memory and history intersect.
The Writing Life
Title | The Writing Life PDF eBook |
Author | Annie Dillard |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2009-10-13 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0061863823 |
"For nonwriters, it is a glimpse into the trials and satisfactions of a life spent with words. For writers, it is a warm, rambling, conversation with a stimulating and extraordinarily talented colleague." — Chicago Tribune From Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Dillard, a collection that illuminates the dedication and daring that characterizes a writer's life. In these short essays, Annie Dillard—the author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and An American Childhood—illuminates the dedication, absurdity, and daring that characterize the existence of a writer. A moving account of Dillard’s own experiences while writing her works, The Writing Life offers deep insight into one of the most mysterious professions.
Diet for a Changing Climate
Title | Diet for a Changing Climate PDF eBook |
Author | Christy Mihaly |
Publisher | Twenty-First Century Books |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1512481211 |
Explore the vast world of unexpected foods that may help solve the global hunger crisis: weeds, wild plants, invasive and feral species, and bugs! Mihaly and Heavenrich introduce readers to the nutritional value of various plant and animal species. You'll visit a cricket farm, learn recipes for dandelion pancakes and pickled purslane; and discover facts about climate change, sustainability, green agriculture, indigenous foods, farm-to-table restaurants, and how to be an eco-friendly producer, consumer, and chef. -- adapted from amazon.com info.
Cutting for Stone
Title | Cutting for Stone PDF eBook |
Author | Abraham Verghese |
Publisher | Random House India |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 2012-05-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 8184001754 |
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.
Hey, Hey, Hay!
Title | Hey, Hey, Hay! PDF eBook |
Author | Christy Mihaly |
Publisher | Holiday House |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2018-08-14 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0823436667 |
Every bale of hay has a little bit of summer sun stored in the heart of it— learn from a mother-daughter team how hay is made! Feeding her horses one cold and wintry day, a girl thinks about all the hard work that went into the fresh-smelling bales she's using. The rhyming text and brilliant full-page paintings follow the girl and her mother through the summer as they cut, spread, dry and bale in the fields. Mower blades slice through the grass./A new row falls with every pass./Next we spread the grass to dry./The tedder makes those grasses fly! This celebration of summer, farming, and family, illustrated by Pura Belpré honor artist Joe Cepeda, includes a glossary of haymaking words, and a recipe for making your own switchel— a traditional farm drink, to cool you down in the summer heat. A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year