Creative Writing & Creative Writing Guides

A poem comes from the same human need as a prayer, a curse, a lullaby, and a keen. How can emotion use language to satisfy its most urgent need, an...

I want to be iconic. I want to be beautiful, reckless, feared, hated, ahead of the times. I want to be different, I want to be dangerous . . . Lond...

It’s at times like this I’m inspired by The Stupendous Santini. He toured the mid-West during the 1930s, entertaining farmers affected by the Dust ...

What are we doing then? Come on, lets go – all of us, lets tell everyone in the street, its too late we’ve lost, all the years of hardship, being m...

A frequent problem area for fiction writers is characterization. If writers jump headlong into a story with only a fuzzy notion about the people...

This is one of three short booklets designed to be given to graduate students as they begin their studies. They explain the purposes of the dissert...

Listed in The Boston Globe's Best Poetry Books of 2014 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry Winner of The Believer Poetry Award "T...

The poem is perhaps the highest verbal form of communication. It illuminates and it conceals. It is as precise and as vague as a mirror."-David Mel...

What's it like putting words in Buffy's mouth? How do you go about inventing your own X-File, or coming up with a mission for the crew of the Enter...

Fleabag... The Queen\'s Gambit... Peaky Blinders... Happy Valley... All phenomenally popular shows, whose creators had to work hard to hone their p...

Novel writing is a popular hobby and this book will provide the would-be and starter novelist with all the tools needed to get started. This title ...

Creativity is becoming increasingly important in an age of advanced audience sophistication. It’s no longer enough to follow standard writing techn...

The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured o...

Now in a fully updated third edition, The Freelance Writer's Handbook is the essential book for everyone who dreams of making money from their writ...

There are many ways prospective authors routinely sabotage their own work. But why leave it to guesswork? Misstep by misstep, How Not to Write a No...

The words that echo through Geoffrey Nunberg's brilliant new journey across the landscape of American language evoke exactly the tenor of our times...

LEARN HOW TO WRITE A BESTSELLING BOOK THAT STANDS OUT - AND GET IT PUBLISHED.Write a Bestselling Thriller is a step by step guide to putting togeth...