The Writing category has 232 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.6★ across 523 ratings. The most-rated is Bird by Bird.
Fast-Draft Your Memoir: Write Your Life Story in 45 Hours
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This is your roadmap for completing the memoir you've dreamed about writing. "Rachael Herron resonates with our audience, and not just because she knows her stuff-she does-or because she's hilarious-she is-but because her honesty and earnestness come through in all her messaging." (Samantha Sanders, Writer's Digest) Writing a memoir is daunting! You're the expert on your life, naturally, but narrating and organizing your own experiences in the best way can feel impossible. Many writers become frustrated in early drafting stages and quit after a couple of brief attempts. Learn from best-selling memoirist Rachael Herron (who teaches this class at Stanford Continuing Studies) how to fast-draft your memoir while keeping its structure compelling. Learn how to frame your life's story and give it a natural arc to keep your reader glued to the page. Figure out how to handle those family and friends you're writing about. Explore what truth means in memoir. Work quickly to quiet the inner critic. Most of all, learn how to get out of your own way to get the words on the page. You can do this! Rachael will show you how.
©2018 Rachael Herron (P)2018 Rachael Herron
"They Say / I Say"
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"They Say / I Say" identifies the key rhetorical moves in academic writing, showing students how to frame their arguments in the larger context of what others have said and providing templates to help them make those moves. And, because these moves are central across all disciplines, the audiobook includes chapters on writing in the sciences, writing in the social sciences, and - new to this edition - writing about literature. The best-selling book on academic writing - in use at more than 1,500 schools.
©2014 Gerald Graff (Author), Cathy Birkenstein (Author) (P)2014 Gildan Media LLC
Write On, Sisters!
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There are more outlets than ever for writers to spread their messages and share their work, more opportunities to speak out and be seen. Writers expose themselves freely and willingly in a way that would have been unfathomable 50 years ago, and more people than ever are writing and publishing. Men and women are writing with equal fervor and commitment to their message and craft. As a result, it’s easy to assume, or hope, that the gendered playing field is a thing of the past, too. Unfortunately for women writers, it’s not. Knowing what we’re up against and how to fight back is the heart and soul of Write On, Sisters! Inside, Brooke Warner draws upon research, anecdotes, and her personal experiences from 20 years in the book publishing industry to show how women’s writing is discounted or less valued than men’s writing, then provides support to overcome these challenges. This audiobook also shines light on how women writers face not only ever-present historical and social challenges but also their own self-limiting beliefs. Write On, Sisters! is for every woman writer ready to be done with all that, and who’s ready for the next revolution.
©2019 Brooke Warner (P)2020 Brooke Warner
Writing Deep Point of View
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Do you want to give the readers such a vivid experience that they feel the events of the story are real and they're right there? Do you want them to forget their own world and worries, and live in the main character's head and heart? The magic wand for achieving this is Deep Point of View. Readers love it, because it gives them the thrill of becoming a different person. The reader doesn't just read a story about a gladiator in the arena, an heiress in a Scottish castle, an explorer in the jungle, a courtesan in Renaissance Venice - she becomes that gladiator, heiress, explorer, or courtesan. In this book, I'll reveal the powerful techniques employed by best-selling authors, and I'll show you how to apply them to rivet your readers. I'll start with the basics of Point of View - if you're already familiar with the concept, you can treat them as a refresher - and then guide you to advanced strategies for taking your reader deep. This is not a beginners' book. It assumes that you have mastered the basics of the writer's craft and know how to create compelling fictional characters. If you like, you can use this book as a self-study class, approaching each chapter as a lesson and completing the assignments at the end of each session.
©2015 Rayne Hall (P)2016 Rayne Hall
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What are story grid beats? We think about the story creation process (writing) as one big “problem”. You simply want to travel from where you are right now (without a story that works) to a place where your story takes on a life of its own. It works. We submit to you that the practical way to unpack that very big problem is by breaking it into smaller, more easily solvable units. Just as performers break down acting challenges into moment-to-moment micro-actions they call beats, so do Story Grid Beat audiobooks break your story problems into specific high-resolution mini-puzzles. They’re like global positioning system reports for when you find yourself lost on your author’s journey. And once they clearly define the problem at hand, they offer procedural advice about how best to reframe your approach and solve it in your own unique way. After all, you can’t begin to solve a problem until you clearly know what it is. You are not the problem. The problems are the problem.
©2020 Story Grid Universe LLC (P)2020 Story Grid Universe LLC
Using Myth to Power Your Story
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This delightful workshop covers how you can use the myths and fairy tales that link us all to give your story more oomph. Get ready to laugh while you learn, because the speaker is a natural storyteller and a witty observer of life. Whether you're creating a screenplay, a novel, a play, a computer game, a puppet show, or just an entry in your journal, your story will be richer, it will touch more people, and it will have more meaning and depth after you listen to Chris Vogler's talk. Learn about: The Hero's Ordinary and Special Worlds The Four Major Movements of Any Story The Cast of Characters: Hero, Mentor, Threshold Guardian, Herald, Shapeshifter, Shadow, and Trickster
©2002 Christopher Vogler (P)2002 Writer's AudioShop
This Year You Write Your Novel
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No more excuses. "Let the lawn get shaggy and the paint peel from the walls," best-selling novelist Walter Mosley advises. Anyone can write a novel now, and in this essential book of tips, practical advice, and wisdom, Walter Mosley promises that the writer-in-waiting can finish it in one year. Mosley tells how to: Create a daily writing regimen to fit any writer's needs - and how to stick to it. Determine the narrative voice that's right for every writer's style. Get past those first challenging sentences and into the heart of a story. Intended as both inspiration and instruction, This Year You Write Your Novel provides the tools to turn out a first draft painlessly and then revise it into something finer.
©2007 Walter Mosley (P)2019 Hachette Audio
1500 Words Per Hour
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Learn how to write fast and professionally, and make 1500 words per hour a breeze. Do you struggle with the whole writing process? If you do, it's likely because you don't have a proper writing system in place. But not just any system. I'm talking about a system that not only allows you to write faster, but also produce higher quality work. Whether you are writing fiction or writing nonfiction, this system will help you write with ease. You will produce 1500 words or more for every hour you spend writing. But how is that achievable? The secret to achieving such impressive word counts is to separate your thinking time from your writing time. This audiobook will show you exactly how to do that so you are no longer stuck for words and start earning more money from your writing. With the Speed Write system, the words just flow out effortlessly all the time. As hard as that is to believe, it's true. I have proven it. So have many other successful writers who use a similar system. In this book, I lay out the complete Speed Write system and show you just how easy it can be to go from amateur writer who gets nothing done to professional writer who finishes a book every couple of months. Inside this guide, you will learn: How to never suffer from writers block ever again How to generate an unlimited amount of new ideas The power of intention and how it can assure your success Why thinking can be a curse, and how to separate your thinking and writing time The simple tactic that may just solve all of your writing flow problems How to make writing a habit and minimize distractions How to consistently publish quality books fast And much more 1500 words. You can write that many in just a single hour. All you need is the right process to follow. The Speed Write system embodies that process.
©2014 N.P. Martin (P)2014 N.P. Martin
Outline Your Novel
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Unlock the secret power of outlining! Outline Your Novel can help any writer take their story from concept to a finished draft! Instead of getting lost in the middle or never finishing, let Outline Your Novel teach you how structure works and how to use that structure to make and follow an outline. In this book, you'll learn: Character arcs Three-act structure Novel story beats Sequence outlines Scene outlines Adapting outlines World-building Incorporating themes Weaving subplots Outline Your Novel offers a guided approach to outlining, and, as always, author Scott King plays along, making sure to do the assignments in the book, so you can learn from his successes and mistakes. Stop letting your novel kick your butt, and beat it with the help of Outline Your Novel!
©2018 Scott King (P)2018 Scott King
How to Write a Novel: Step-by-Step | Essential Romance Novel, Mystery Novel and Fantasy Novel Writing Tricks Any Writer Can Learn
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Struggling as an author? Do you have an amazing story in mind, but you can’t get it down on paper? You’ve got the idea and the characters but soon run out of steam? Perhaps you are a beginner and need help putting it all together. Whatever your reason, this audiobook helps to unlock the secrets of novel writing in simple-to-follow ways that will bring significant results fast. Tips to write engrossing page-turners How to Write a Novel: Step-by-Step provides a breakdown of essential aspects of writing romance, fantasy, and mystery novels and unveils crucial tips and tricks that will help flesh-out the characters in your book. Sandy Marsh assists in creating compelling plots and weaving stories that your readers will be fully immersed in. This is an audiobook that quickly gets to the heart of the matter in a clear and concise way. New and experienced authors will rapidly find answers to what they need. Content summary Each section is summarized with a series of short questions to help inspire deeper reflection. These are: The outline - How to refine major schemes and subplots that make sense to the reader and also your protagonist. The setting - The art of crafting a sense of place and how to work with multiple locations & time-periods. Point of view - Helping you to form the best character perspectives for your story. Characters - The best way to choose your central character to drive the story forward and one in whom your audience will discover a gripping read. Conflict - How and when to use struggle to keep the reader engaged. Additional tips - A final section that motivates the author to think differently to engage emotion and lose the reader in the heart of the story. Marsh helps an author to think outside of the box when faced with overused clichés.
©2017 Sandy Marsh (P)2018 Sandy Marsh
Cultures and Beyond
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Creating a unique, immersive setting one culture at a time A guide for authors, gamers, and hobbyists Written to help fantasy and science fiction storytellers, game designers, gamers, and hobbyists, Cultures and Beyond, The Art of World Building #3 is a how-to guide for filling an imaginary world with fascinating societies. It includes chapters on creating culture, organizations, armed forces, religions, the supernatural, magic systems, technological and supernatural items, languages, names, and various systems our world will have, from health, educational, legal, and commerce, to information systems. You’ll learn how to leverage real world cultures while making them seem original. Even those who’ve never invented a world will soon be masters as the author’s decades of experience walk listeners through using pre-made templates that make world building faster, better, and easier to complete. Invent interesting laws, crimes, and punishments that involve imaginary creatures or technologies, and learn how to leverage trial by ordeal and other judicial acts from Earth’s past. Determine how much education is available and what form it takes. Create currencies for different places while keeping them easy for your audience to fathom, plus learn how to determine the value to assign labor, materials, products, time, and more. Master the art of creating naming styles for different societies. Fashion new military groups in gritty detail. Dream up sensible rules for magic, its practitioners, the supernatural and what happens when things go wrong. Learn what kind of files you’ll need to create, how to organize them, and get jump started with a dozen free templates you’ll use again and again. Cultures and Beyond is the third volume in The Art of World-Building, the most in-depth, multi-volume series of its kind. Build better, faster.
©2020 Randy Ellefson (P)2020 Randy Ellefson
How to Write a Book
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If you want to understand how to write a book, then pay attention. Writing is the way human emotions and knowledge is expressed. Each writer has his or her own writing style that reflects his or her personality. However, the style and tone required for each written piece are different and can be decided by the content of the text. It is very important to focus on your purpose to write regardless of what you write. Now the question is do you know enough to write your first book? When it comes to writing, Writing a Book is a book that makes your journey into the writing world an easier one. Writing a Book is a book that has explained in details the steps to make writing easy, what makes it difficult, how to write an outline, a draft, editing, and proofreading, hereby making your journey into the writing world easier. If you have trouble finding motivation, when it comes to your writing career, this book would be really useful to you. No matter how successful you are, you won't be motivated by days. Actually, anything that once seemed like a passion-filled call could gradually become a slog. If you want to become a pro and a famous author or effective writer, you must have to inspire yourself each day. You must find different and unique ways of getting inspired to keep the inspiration fresh. Open and study this book and find out: History of writing How to understand the different types of writing The terminologies and abbreviations used in writing What makes writing difficult and how to make it easier How to write an outline and a draft Editing and proofreading The different types of publishing You might be asking yourself, what benefit would this book be to me, or can you make this book work for you? Even if you don’t know a thing about writing, you can learn by just listening to this audiobook and applying the principles written in the book. It promises to give you a fresh and new perspective.
©2020 William Murphy (P)2020 William Murphy
A Delicate Aggression
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A vibrant history of the renowned and often controversial Iowa Writers’ Workshop and its celebrated alumni and faculty As the world’s preeminent creative writing program, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop has produced an astonishing number of distinguished writers and poets since its establishment in 1936. Its alumni and faculty include 28 Pulitzer Prize winners, six US poet laureates, and numerous National Book Award winners. This volume follows the program from its rise to prominence in the early 1940s under director Paul Engle, who promoted the “workshop” method of classroom peer criticism. Meant to simulate the rigors of editorial and critical scrutiny in the publishing industry, this educational style created an environment of both competition and community, cooperation and rivalry. Focusing on some of the exceptional authors who have participated in the program - such as Flannery O’Connor, Dylan Thomas, Kurt Vonnegut, Jane Smiley, Sandra Cisneros, T. C. Boyle, and Marilynne Robinson - David Dowling examines how the Iowa Writers’ Workshop has shaped professional authorship, publishing industries, and the course of American literature.
©2019 David O. Dowling (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Mailing Lists Unboxed
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Self-published authors are coming to realize that a stable career is about a backlist of titles and keeping that backlist selling. But how do you do this? Invariably, advice given by other authors includes holding promotions and lowering the price of the first book in series, or even making it free. However, few people mention one of the most powerful ways to keep your backlist selling: the author mailing list. This is where Mailing Lists Unboxed comes in. It shows you: The different types of author mailing lists Ways how to recruit people to sign up Steps on what to do with your list once you have one Attitudes about mailing lists, including those that stand in your way Warnings and precautions And much more This is not a book for beginners. If you know little about self-publishing, listen to Self-Publishing Unboxed first.
©2019 Patty Jansen (P)2020 Patty Jansen
Self-Publishing a Book, for Rooks
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Do you want to successfully self-publish an ebook? Many people have the desire to tell their story and put it out there for the world to see, but they have no idea how to do so. With traditional publishing, it can be difficult to get a literary agent or other publishing gatekeepers to actually give your work a chance. Newer options for self-publishing can be frustrating for authors because there are too many to choose from and they don't know which one will actually be best for their book. In the last three years, starting my senior year of college, I have self-published six books. I have learned through my experience that self-publishing isn't easy, but it also isn't that hard. It is an amazing feeling to create a book and have people all over the world enjoy it. This is why I have created this very short and simple guide for you to self-publish your very own book, so you can share your story with the world in a matter of days. Congratulations on beginning your journey to becoming a self-published author!
©2020 Deontae Henderson (P)2020 Deontae Henderson
How to Write a Bestselling Self-Help Book
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The "must have" book by the acknowledged expert for self-help/how-to business, recovery, sports, health, self-improvement, hobby, crafts, health, and New Age writers. "If you follow only a third of her advice, you'll have a successful book." (Jeremy Tarcher) In this unique book, author and editor Jean Marie Stine shows writers how to avoid the errors that keep most self-help books from finding publishers and off the best-seller lists if they are published. From the author: "Before starting this book, I carefully reviewed stacks of rejected self-help manuscripts from aspiring authors. I also looked at first drafts which publishers had asked me to rewrite before they were deemed suitable for publication. I kept a running list of the defects I noted. Altogether, I found 68 key mistakes most inexperienced authors seemed to make. In this book I describe each of the 68 key mistakes so that you can recognize them when you see them in your own work. Then I explain how you can avoid or correct the problem. The result should be a zero-defect manuscript and book proposal that will sail through the editorial and publishing committees to acceptance."
©2014 Jean Marie Stine (P)2018 Jean Marie Stine
The Writer's Guide to Character Emotion
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Best Method to Crafting Realistic Character Expressions and Emotions! Most writers struggle with creating a captivating story. The fastest way to improve your writing is by the use of the Deep Point-of-View technique, which can transform any novel from mediocre storytelling into riveting prose. This manual will provide writers with the essential skills needed to significantly enhance their characterization and intensify emotions by eliminating filtering words that cause narrative distance. Plus, this unique guidebook includes hundreds of amazing ways to use “show, don’t tell” to submerge readers so deeply into any scene that they will experience the story along with the characters. Writers will learn to: Revise Shallow Writing Deepen Characterization Craft Realistic Visceral Reactions Improve Showing vs. Telling Create Lifelike Character Expressions Best-selling author, S. A. Soule also shares her expertise with writers on how to apply “showing” methods through powerful examples in action, along with the necessary tools to immediately deepen the reader’s experience with vivid, sensory details. Are you ready to instantly take your writing skills to the next level? Please scroll up and click the buy button now...
©2016 S. A. SOULE (P)2016 SHERRY SOULE
Writing with a Heavy Heart
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This book explores the stages and outlets of grief and how to implement them into your fiction to create deep, interesting characters and a more engaging plot. Some topics of this book include: grieving before the loss, spiritual matters, and how grief affects different ages, personality types, and genders. Find out how to implement heavy emotional scenes authentically, without crossing over into melodrama. Learn which authors have done this well, and how they did it.
©2012, 2013 Denise Jaden (P)2014 Denise Jaden
Spider, Spin Me a Web
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The craft of writing is a lot like spinning a web: You take threads and weave them skillfully together, and only you know where this intricate network of twists and turns begin and how it will end. Now, with Lawrence Block's expert advice, you can learn this art of entrapping your reader in a maze of fascinating fiction. Spider, Spin Me a Web is the perfect companion volume to Block's previous book on writing, Telling Lies for Fun and Profit, which Sue Grafton noted "should be a permanent part of every writer's library". As helpful and supportive as always, Block shares what he's learned over the course of writing over a hundred published books: techniques to help you write a solid piece of fiction, strategies for getting a reader (or editor) to read - and buy - your book, ideas for increasing your creativity, and developing an environment that will nourish you and your craft. Spider, Spin Me a Web is a complete guide to achieving your full potential as a writer.
©1997, 2019 Lawrence Block (P)2019 Lawrence Block
Writing to Sell: How to Increase Profits with Book-Selling and Get the Attention of Readers
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Writing to Sell: How to Increase Profits with Book-Selling and Get the Attention of Readers Here it is what you will find in the audiobook: What is Selling How can you overcome classic cash-flow Skills to increase your business And much more! So, what are you still waiting for? Get this audiobook now!
©2020 Peter Jones (P)2020 Peter Jones