Practical and Impractical Advice on the Art of Playwriting
Adam Szymkowicz is that rarest of things: a working playwright. At a time when the entire business model of American theatre seems on the verge of implosion--and most dramatists survive only through soul-sucking day jobs, the largesse of patrons or their own families, or writing for television--Szymkowicz has carved out a distinctive niche for ......
Encounters, transformations, and reflections from in-prison and post-release theater workshops See Me is a collection of intimate dialogues about collective experiences in the context of prison theater workshops. Each essay is a collaboration between two or three people who connected profoundly in the temporary community that a workshop can ......
Encounters, transformations, and reflections from in-prison and post-release theater workshops See Me is a collection of intimate dialogues about collective experiences in the context of prison theater workshops. Each essay is a collaboration between two or three people who connected profoundly in the temporary community that a workshop can ......
A Handbook of Common Blunders and Ways to Mend Them
Writers of any kind want readers to understand what they're writing. Too often, however, what one writes can leave readers baffled or misled as to what they intended their audience to know. Writers Mistakes: A Handbook of Common Blunders and Ways to Mend Them is a comprehensive guide that shows confusing examples from literature, newspapers, and ......
A Handbook of Common Blunders and Ways to Mend Them
Writers of any kind want readers to understand what they're writing. Too often, however, what one writes can leave readers baffled or misled as to what they intended their audience to know. Writers Mistakes: A Handbook of Common Blunders and Ways to Mend Them is a comprehensive guide that shows confusing examples from literature, newspapers, and ......
Ghostwriters, for so long the publishing industry’s best kept secret, are finally stepping out from the shadows.
The Complete Guide To Ghostwriting is a comprehensive overview of this secretive profession, which has seen a rapid increase in demand in every genre of book. Teena Lyons has enlisted the help of more than ......
To an unusual degree among writers, playwrights' creations are not simply words on a page. Instead, a well-wrought play is an intricate machine that will be used by directors, actors, designers, and other creators to bring a fully staged, real-time performance into the world. The construction and maintenance of that machine is the playwright's ......
Scientific evidence for the origin of speech is abundant, but evidence for the origin of language as separate from speech as a naming system remains speculative. What evidence can be utilized that will furnish relevant insights on the origin or language? This book attempts to provide an answer by suggesting that the first riddles of humanity, ......
Objective-Driven Timed Exercises for Classroom and Independent Practice
This writing book is designed for students of all writing calibers. Whether the writing practice happens in a classroom or a coffee shop, students of writing can benefit from this book of objective-driven exercises. It is designed to not only enhance skills and voice, but to do so with time efficiency in mind. Writers can choose between the 3 ......