Creative Education

Prompted by a neverending stream of letters pleading for advice on how to be a better writer, successful children’s authors Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter put their heads together to create this useful guide. With dozens of books and decades of experience between them, the authors brought their distinct personal styles to the advice they had to offer. Now they have done the same for this audio version, with each author narrating her own sections.

Have you thought about writing a book? Do you just not know where to begin? Do you get writer's block just thinking about writing a book? Best-selling nonfiction author David Kadavy shares his simple process for writing a book. Build confidence, ditch your inner critic, and finally write your book with simple habits you can start today. You can listen to this short read in under an hour, so it won't get in the way of the one thing standing between you and your book: action!

Playful and practical, When You Wonder, You're Learning introduces a new generation of families to the lessons of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. By exploring the science behind the iconic television program, the book reveals what Fred Rogers called the “tools for learning”: skills and mindsets that scientists now consider essential. These tools - curiosity, creativity, collaboration, and more - have been shown to boost everything from academic learning to children’s well-being, and they benefit kids of every background and age.

Most people don’t realize it, but emotional fear and anxiety can be subdued and brought to its knees. You can tap into your creative mind and use it as a tool to dispel your CPTSD and the associated trauma and brain atrophy that occurs after trauma.

After a decade of teaching writing using the same methods he'd experienced as a student many years before, writer, editor, and educator John Warner realized he could do better. Drawing on his classroom experience and the most persuasive research in contemporary composition studies, he devised an innovative new framework: a step-by-step method that moves the student through a series of writing problems, an organic, bottom-up writing process that exposes and acculturates them to the ways writers work in the world.

This is an audio summary of The Creative Habit, a book that offers insight, real-world advice, and plenty of inspiration for anyone seeking to find a new level of success and satisfaction in their creative endeavors.

As another year unfolded, lifestyle blogger and mom of three Miranda Anderson realized she felt weighed down by the mass of belongings her family had been accumulating. In an effort to pare down and cultivate a deeper sense of gratitude and abundance in their lives, she and her husband decided to embark on a minimalism challenge, where they would stop all unnecessary shopping for one year. It meant learning to use what they already had and being more creative.

The ChatGPT Writer's Companion: Prompts and Exercises for Creative Writing is a must-have resource for aspiring and experienced writers alike. Unlock your creativity and harness the power of ChatGPT, an advanced AI language model, to take your writing to new heights. With a wide array of thought-provoking prompts, immersive exercises, and expert tips, this audiobook will guide you through the creative process, helping you develop compelling characters, build immersive worlds, and craft engaging plots.

With the signature wit and humor that has garnered him legions of fans, Gantos instructs young writers on using their "writing radar" to find story ideas in their own lives. Incorporating his own misadventures as a developing writer, Gantos inspires listeners to build confidence and establish good writing habits as they create and revise their stories. More than just a how-to guide, Writing Radar is a celebration of the power of storytelling and an ode to the characters who - many unwittingly - inspired Gantos' own writing career.

El Sultán ha pedido a los artistas más reputados del país un gran libro que celebre las glorias de su reino. Su tarea será iluminar esa obra al estilo europeo. Pero como el arte figurativo puede ser considerado una ofensa al Islam, el encargo se convierte a todas luces en una proposición peligrosa. La élite gobernante no debe conocer el alcance ni la naturaleza de ese proyecto, y el pánico estalla cuando uno de los miniaturistas desaparece. La única pista para resolver el misterio -¿quizá un crimen?- reside en las miniaturas inacabadas.

Have you ever wanted to captivate readers with a great opening, create fantastical creatures, realize a dastardly villain, or make your characters leap off the page? If you answered yes to any of these questions, Gail Carson Levine can help you achieve your goals. This companion to the popular Writing Magic teaches you how to become a world-class author. Drawing from her popular blog, the Newbery Honor author answers readers' questions and dives into how to make a story come alive.

Introducing "Fiction Writing Made Easy: Your Creative Writing Companion that Will Help Unlock Your Writing Potential" – the audiobook that will transform your writing journey from daunting to delightful.

TOUTES les techniques requises pour vous définir comme rédacteur professionnel sont condensées dans ces pages et, bientôt, vous pourriez les serrer entre vos mains. Est-ce qu’il suffit de le lire une fois pour encaisser des chiffres fous? NON, mais il deviendra votre Bible pour surpasser la concurrence jour après jour, en appliquant chaque suggestion dans les travaux que vous allez développer. Apprenez l’art de l’écriture persuasive et devenez l’un des professionnels les plus recherchés sur le marché!

An award-winning novelist, philosopher, essayist, screenwriter, professor, and cartoonist, Charles Johnson has devoted his life to creative pursuit. His 1990 National Book Award-winning novel Middle Passage is a modern classic, revered as much for its daring plot as its philosophical underpinnings. For 33 years, Johnson taught and mentored students in the art and craft of creative writing. The Way of the Writer is his record of those years and the coda to a kaleidoscopic, boundary-shattering career.

For 50 years, writers at every stage of their careers have turned to the literary nonprofit organization Poets & Writers and its award-winning magazine for resources to foster their professional development, from writing prompts and tips on technique to informative interviews with published authors, literary agents, and editors. But never before has Poets & Writers marshalled its 50 years’ worth of knowledge to create an authoritative guide for writers that answers every imaginable question about craft and career - until now.

In Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips to Clean Up Your Writing, Mignon Fogarty, the woman behind the popular Grammar Girl podcast, tackles some of the most common mistakes people make while communicating. From "lay vs. lie" and "affect vs. effect" to split infinitives and run-on sentences, the Grammar Girl offers clear explanations and effective memory tricks to help listeners write (or say) it right.

Discover the power of your imagination and awaken your inner writer with "101 Writing Prompts for Teens." This dynamic book is filled with captivating prompts that will take you on emotional journeys and transport you to fantastical worlds.

Useful tips to help achieve a more professional level of speech. Our speech and voice can say as much about us as the clothes we wear, the car we drive, or even the newspapers and magazines we read.

The perfect book for all student journalists, this young learners adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters' Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey's New York Times best-selling She Said will inspire a new generation of investigative journalists.

From Louis Henry Mitchell—the Creative Director of Character Design for Sesame Workshop—Qreative Evolution: The Intimate Practice of Creative Fulfillment through Guided Self-Education is here to help you discover your creative gifts and use them to build the life you are meant to live.