Discover the techniques and courage you need to journal bravely! With Dina's help, you'll begin by working through any fears you have of using your own handwriting. You'll get journaling prompts and techniques to help you develop a handwriting style you'll love and words you'll want to write! Then, you'll move onto drawing: you'll learn not only how to train your hand, but also how to appreciate your own unique drawing ability. As you continue through...

The truth is that all of the "writing rules" you've learned are bullshit. Sure, they work for some people, but the likelihood that they'll work for you--unique butterfly of a person that you are--is slim. That doesn't mean you're out of luck! There is meaningful advice to be had in the writing world, and Chuck Wendig is here to deliver it. In this hilarious guide, Wendig will help you discover more about yourself as a writer, parse through your quirks...

Packed with fun-filled illustrations, easy-to-follow exercises, and sample jokes, this humorous how-to joke book for kids proves that with a little elbow grease, anyone can write jokes that really make people LOL. Covering everything from surprise to wordplay to visual jokes--plus tips on how to perform a joke so it lands--LOL 101 is the approachable and (of course) funny guide for any kid ready to channel their inner comedian.

Widow and retired special education teacher Daisy Arthur decides to fight boredom by joining a romance writers' group. Before long, one of Daisy's colleagues, Catholic priest Rico Sanchez, is found murdered in Colorado's Platte River, and the members of the writing group were the last to see him alive. Now Daisy must go in search of a killer or risk becoming the next victim.

The need for meaningful words has created a soaring demand for freelance writers along with editors who check facts, spelling, grammar, and punctuation, and suggest ways to improve copy. And content marketing is only one sector of the freelance economy where writers and editors might be referred to as gig workers.

Publishing is a personal story of a writer's hunger to be published, the pursuit of that goal, and then the long haul--for Gail Godwin, forty-five years of being a published writer and all that goes with it... Publishing reflects on the influence of her mother's writing hopes and accomplishments... Recollecting her long and storied career, Godwin maps the publishing industry over the last fifty years, a time of great upheaval and ingenuity. Her eloquent...

The well-known author and illustrator relates the story of his life and work.