Dialogue for Writers: Create Powerful Dialogue in Fiction and Nonfiction
In Dialogue for Writers, publisher Sammie Justesen explores the necessary elements of dialogue for every genre. This invaluable book is packed with ideas and examples, showing writers how to improve their technique and eliminate mistakes that bring rejection. Dialogue for Writers is the only book on the market that explores dialogue for fiction, screenplays, graphic writing, memoir, poetry, journaling, and children’s books. Addressing novices and seasoned authors alike, Justesen helps all writers bring their work to a higher level.
The Dragon Keeper (The Rain Wild Chronicles, Book 1) (mp3+pdf)
New York Times bestselling master fantasist Robin Hobb returns to the world of her Tawny Man trilogy with this first tale in a thrilling two-book miniseries that explores a world of dragons and men.
(24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Course No. 2567 Taught by Stephen Railton
Samuel Clemens, the man known to history as "Mark Twain," was more than one of America's greatest writers. He was our first true celebrity, one of the most photographed faces of the 19th and 20th centuries. This course explores Twain's dual identities as one of our classical authors and as an almost mythical presence in our nation's cultural life.
The nature of Tocqueville's liberalism is the main focus of this book, in which Ossewaarden argues that Tocqueville seeks to reconcile the Christian & the citizen in the context of modernity, & explores the question of how Tocqueville's work synthesizes religion & politics.
A mixture of how-to and history, this book sets out the rules of joke-making and joke-telling (with lots of hilarious examples) and explores our fascination with japes, jibes, jokes and jesters.
