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Read These Seven Books, and You’ll be a Better Writer Donald Miller I used to play golf but I wasn’t very good. I rented a DVD, though, that taught me a better way to swing, and after watching it a few times and spending an hour or so practicing, I knocked ten strokes off my game. I can’t believe how much time I wasted when a simple DVD saved me years of frustration. I’d say something similar is true in my writing career. • The War of Art by Steven Pressfield: This book is aimed at writers, but it’s also applicable to anybody who does creative work. Pressfield leaves out all the mushy romantic talk about the writing life, talk I don’t find helpful. • On Writing Well by William Zinsser: Zinsser may be the best practical writing coach out there. • Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott: Before becoming a literary superstar, Anne Lamott taught writing, and Bird by Bird is the best of her advice, broken up into chapters. Save the Cat by Blake Snyder: Plot and Structure by James Scott Bell: On Writing, by Stephen King: Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury:

What's a team? A team within Pearltrees is a group of people who have come together to collaboratively curate a common interest. When you want to join a team, just click on the “team up” button to send a request. As soon as your request has been accepted, you’ll be able to curate the pearltree with the other team members. The founder has some privileges : he can express his objectives for the pearltree to the team in the editorial panel, and he’s the only one who can create subteams.

Pearl the stuff you like Pearls can be created in several ways: Pearltrees has extensions for Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer that make it easy to create pearls while you are browsing the web. Using the extension for your browser you can put any content you wish to keep directly into your dropzone or anywhere else in your account with only two clicks. The extensions for Firefox or Internet Explorer: They have 3 buttons: Pearl: It turns the web page you are reading into a pearl In: It lets you choose in which pearltree you want to put the page you are reading. Reveal: One click and you will go directly into your account. Also, with Firefox you can “right click” any link and then add content directly to your Pearltrees account from right within the context menu. The extension for Chrome: It only has one button, but enables you to do the exact same things: If you use Safari or Opera, Pearltrees has a bookmarklet that works in the same way. Create pearls with Facebook and Twitter From the links you tweet!

10 Elementary Tips For Writers From Sherlock Holmes SourceSince Sherlock Holmes first appeared in 1887, the four novels and 56 stories featuring him have never been out of print. He has become the most-played movie character in history, with 200 actors having played the role. Other writers have created memorable characters who solve mysteries with reason. But Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is the detective who has truly captured the world's imagination. To celebrate the anniversary of Arthur Conan Doyle's birthday, I thought I would put together 10 things writers can learn from the world's most famous detective. Master your craft: Writers have to learn the rules before they break them.

Diana Ayling Acting Programme Leader - Graduate Diploma in Higher Education at Unitec Institute of Technology Higher Education | New Zealand, NZ Innovative and connected educational manager and employee performance developer. Specialties: I have demonstrated my abilities in such diverse environments and disciplines including Pacific Center, Maori Education, Construction, Not for Profit Management, Osteopathy, Natural Sciences, Business, Law and Matauranga Maori, and Law. Jan 2013 - Present Acting Programme Leader - Graduate Diploma in Higher Education / Unitec Institute of Technology Leading the design, facilitation and evaluation of the Graduate Diploma in Higher Education and the National Certificate in Adult Literacy Education in the Department of Education.

Qu'est-ce qu'une équipe ? Une équipe c’est un groupe de personnes qui éditent ensemble un intérêt commun. Pour rejoindre une équipe, cliquez sur “faire équipe” pour envoyer votre demande. Dès que votre demande aura été acceptée vous pourrez éditer le pearltrees avec les autres membres de l’équipe! Chaque membre ajoute et organise les perles et les pearltrees de l’équipe comme sur un pearltree classique. Chaque membre peut aussi décider d’accepter ou d’inviter d’autres membres pour faire croître l’équipe. Enfin, chaque membre peut envoyer des messages privés à l’équipe et a accès à l’historique de l’équipe pour éventuellement restaurer des perles ou pearltrees supprimés par mégarde.

How To Write A Novel Using The Snowflake Method Writing a novel is easy. Writing a good novel is hard. That’s just life. Frankly, there are a thousand different people out there who can tell you how to write a novel. In this article, I’d like to share with you what works for me. This page is the most popular one on my web site, and gets over a thousand page views per day, so you can guess that a lot of people find it useful. Good fiction doesn’t just happen, it is designed. For a number of years, I was a software architect designing large software projects. I claim that that’s how you design a novel — you start small, then build stuff up until it looks like a story. If you’re like most people, you spend a long time thinking about your novel before you ever start writing. But before you start writing, you need to get organized. Step 1) Take an hour and write a one-sentence summary of your novel. When you later write your book proposal, this sentence should appear very early in the proposal. Some hints on what makes a good sentence:

Perlez ce que vous aimez Il y a différents moyens de créer des perles. 1/ Perlez pendant votre navigation avec l’extension Pearltrees L’extension Pearltrees est disponible pour Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer (32 bits) ou d’utiliser le bookmarklet pour les autres navigateurs. A. L’extension Pearltrees pour Firefox Elle comporte trois boutons: Perle: Transforme en perle l’URL que vous visitez Dans: Pour choisir le pearltree dans lequel sera stockée la perle de l’URL visitée Révéler: Pour retourner dans votre compte B. Au cours de votre navigation, dès que vous trouvez une page qui vous intéresse, vous cliquez sur le bouton Pearltrees et vous cliquez sur le pearltree dans lequel vous souhaitez la ranger… et c’est tout ! C. Elle marche de la même façon que celle pour Firefox ! D. le Bookmarklet (pour n’importe quel navigateur) C’est un bouton que vous installez en faisant un glisser-déplacer dans la barre de favoris de votre navigateur. 2/ Créez des perles avec Twitter et Facebook A partir des liens que vous tweeterez !

How to write a book, Writing a book 1. Take one fabulous idea It's impossible to overstate the importance of your concept in terms of how successful your book becomes. Stephenie Meyer writes perfectly good, competent prose - but her story idea (ordinary girl falls for sexy vampire) turned her book into a cultural phenomenon. Agents know this and - no matter what your genre - a strong premise is essential to selling a book. So how do you get your genius ideas? 2. The next huge essential for any novelist is a story that simply forces the reader to keep turning pages - and fortunately there are definite rules about how to achieve this. A) Give the protagonist a major life challenge very early in the book and don't resolve things till the very end; and B) If a particular chapter doesn't advance the story in a specific way, you have to delete that chapter. Sounds simple? 3. Long after a reader has forgotten the details of a plot, the chances are they'll remember the character who impelled it. 4. 5. And this: 6. A) Clarity. 7. 8.

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