Tag: Writers

The Lineup The World’s Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives


Free Download Otto Penzler, "The Lineup: The World’s Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives"
English | 2010 | pages: 416 | ISBN: 0316031941, 0316031933 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
A great recurring character in a series you love becomes an old friend. You learn about their strange quirks and their haunted pasts and root for them every time they face danger. But where do some of the most fascinating sleuths in the mystery and thriller world really come from?

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Blended Writers on the Stepfamily Experience


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English | 2015 | pages: 296 | ISBN: 1580055575 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
95 million adults have a step relationship, according to a 2011 report. That’s 95 million unexpected experiences; 95 million unique perspectives; 95 million laughs, 95 million tears, and 95 million new families.

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101 Writers’ Scene Settings Unique Location Ideas & Sensory Details for Writers to Create Vivid Scene Settings


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English | 2016 | pages: 174 | ISBN: 153060849X | EPUB | 0,2 mb
Don’t Just Write A Scene ~ Create A Memorable Setting Write a compelling scene and create a vivid setting that readers won’t forget. Find out how to make your novel’s scene settings come alive to your readers with mood, senses, atmosphere and vivid descriptions shown through the point of view of your characters. This book will guide you through choosing settings with mood, atmosphere and sensory details that will influence your characters. In films like Bourne or Bond you see baddies chasing the hero through crowded towns with tight corners and narrow streets or racing across roof tops. In other classic films you may see the most unusual places on earth and wonder how the studios found those places to feature in their films. Clearly they have endless budgets with numerous bodies to scout for locations. But what if there was a resource where writers could dip in and out to find these special types of locations for setting their scenes? Now there is! Inside, bestselling author of Pimp My Fiction, Paula Wynne guides you through: * Creating a novel setting in order to write a vivid scene * Finding unique locations for different scenarios in your Description * Creating vivid setting descriptions * Weaving them together seamlessly through the character’s actions and reactions * Develop location elements to write realistic, intriguing descriptions from the character’s POV * Using sensory details that bring your setting to life * Layers of details that make a reader feel like they are right there with your character * And you will get a free download copy of the Settings Checklist! Filled with ideas for categories such as crowded towns, tight and narrow streets, adventure locations, places up high and down below, mountains and valleys, seascapes, abandoned places, modern techno, scary and spooky, and unusual work places, homes and fight scenes. It also includes scene setting advice from successful authors: Linda Abbott, Steve Alcorn, James Becker, Glenn Cooper, Mark City, Dean Crawford, Nicole Evelina, Jeff Gerke, CS Lakin, Marti Leimbach, Rayne Hall, Angela Marsons, Allison Maruska, Alex Myers, Jodie Renner, Douglas E. Richards, Joyce Schneider, Kevin Wignall and Vincent Zandri.

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Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany Cross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity


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English | ISBN: 1316512843 | 2022 | 285 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Shedding new light on the alternative, emancipatory Germany discovered and written about by progressive women writers during the long nineteenth century, this illuminating study uncovers a country that offered a degree of freedom and intellectual agency unheard of in England. Opening with the striking account of Anna Jameson and her friendship with Ottilie von Goethe, Linda K. Hughes shows how cultural differences spurred ten writers’ advocacy of progressive ideas and provided fresh materials for publishing careers. Alongside well-known writers – Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Michael Field, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Vernon Lee – this study sheds light on the lesser-known writers Mary and Anna Mary Howitt, Jessie Fothergill, and the important Anglo-Jewish lesbian writer Amy Levy. Armed with their knowledge of the German language, each of these women championed an extraordinarily productive openness to cultural exchange and, by approaching Germany through a female lens, imported an alternative, ‘other’ Germany into English letters.

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