Research Writing

Writing and finishing a novel can feel overwhelming. Especially because if you're like most writers, you need to fit writing around other responsibilities and goals. Maybe you're working at a separate job or profession, raising a family, or pursuing a degree (or all of the above). But there's good news. No matter what else is happening in your life, you can write a novel in a year.

Published in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising on June 28, 1969, Indecent Advances investigates how queer men navigated a society that criminalized them and displayed little compassion for the violence they endured. Polchin shows, with masterful insight, how this discrimination was ultimately transformed by activists to help shape the burgeoning gay rights movement in the years leading up to Stonewall.

Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, "When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West", and in this book, Mark Arax spends four years travelling up and down the Golden State to explore its singular place in the world. This is California beyond the clichés. This is California as only a native son, deep in the dust, could draw it.

Whether a clinician employing hypnosis or hypnotherapy uses a formal written script or not, all practitioners have adopted a structure that is based upon traditions and theories that are most likely a half century to several centuries old. Most of these methods have long been overdue for an update. That is, if you wish to remain effective and relevant in this ever-changing field.

Êtes-vous prêt.e à explorer l'aventure fascinante de votre propre autofiction ? Êtes-vous intrigué.e par la philosophie et la psychologie qui se cachent derrière votre propre histoire ? "Le Pacte Autofictionnel" n'est pas seulement un livre, c'est aussi un guide qui vous accompagne pas à pas à travers le processus d'écriture d'une autofiction. Les analyses philosophique et psychologique sont également fournies pour vous aider à décortiquer votre propre existence et à donner un sens plus profond à votre histoire.

Writing historical fiction involves more than taking a story and substituting carriages for cars. The historical novelist must do her best to understand the mind-set of the people she writes about, even while she explores the timeless and universal desires common to human beings of every time and place. This book describes historical fiction, tells the writer how to research, construct an authentic historic story world, and make the reader feel as though he or she is in the midst of the action.

Fifty Years of 60 Minutes shares the secret of what's made the program exceptional for all these years and how it has maintained such high quality to this day: why founder Don Hewitt believed "hearing" a story is more important than seeing it (and thus why he closed his eyes in the screening room), why competition was encouraged to preserve a sense of urgency, why the "small picture" is the best way to illuminate a larger one, and why the most memorable stories are almost always those with a human being at the center.

In How to Write an Excellent Personal Statement, Quincy Washington, an alumnus of the London School of Economics and the Founder of PlaceCoach—a trusted leader for university applications—guides you along each step of the writing process for your college admissions essay. You will benefit from insider knowledge and tips, as well as real-life examples from students’ personal statements and college admissions essays.

Having played the role of a student, postdoc, researcher, research faculty member, author, reviewer, and editor, Kasthurirangan "Rangan" Gopalakrishnan, PhD, fully understands and empathizes with the struggles and pleasures of academic work. In this book, his goal is to assist you to do what you are already doing more effectively and efficiently with minimal stress and possibly to identify and eliminate those activities and habits that interfere with your academic writing productivity.

Long renowned as one of the smartest writers on the loose, David Foster Wallace reveals himself in Consider the Lobster to be also one of the funniest. In this program, he ranges far and farther in his search for the original, the curious, or the merely mystifying. He discovers the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the Maine Lobster Festival and confronts the inevitable question just beyond the butter-or-cocktail-sauce quandary.

We’re looking forward to guiding you through what we know can be a rather overwhelming experience—but with the right knowledge and chutzpah you’ll see that self-publishing is one of the most thrilling and meaningful journeys a writer can take. I’m Janita, and I’m going to teach you the lessons I’ve learned over the past ten years in the independent publishing industry.

Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing - about the creation of good prose - and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of the Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd was the editor who encouraged him, and from that article grew a lifelong association. Before long, Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine, the first book the two worked on together, had won the Pulitzer Prize.

Every person has a story to tell, but few beginners know how to uncover their story's narrative potential. And despite a growing interest among students and creative writers, few guides to the genre of memoirs and creative nonfiction highlight compelling storytelling strategies.

Mario Vargas Llosa dirige a todos aquellos que tienen la ilusión de llegar a ser escritores unas magníficas reflexiones en forma epistolar acerca del arte de narrar. Cómo comenzar a cristalizar esa vocación en obras literarias, por dónde empezar esa aventura, de dónde salen las historias que cuentan las novelas... son algunas de las preguntas a las que el Premio Nobel de Literatura da respuesta en este libro, que se convierte así en una lección magistral del oficio de escribidor.

Alexander Chee, an essayist of “virtuosity and power” (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

In Losing the News, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex S. Jones offers a probing look at the epochal changes sweeping the media, changes which are eroding the core news that has been the essential food supply of our democracy. Losing the News depicts an unsettling situation in which the American birthright of fact-based, reported news is in danger. But it is also a call to arms to fight to keep the core of news intact.

Everything you need to run your business as an author. This is not a book on creativity or the craft of writing. This is not a book for hobbyists. This is a book that will take your writing into the realm of actually paying the bills. You will learn how to go from being an author to running a business as an author.

You need two things to write great stories. Craft. And magic--real magic, meaning access to the mysterium. Are you called to write? Do you have stories that need to be told? Do you feel the magic in great writing and desire to harness that same power and energy? Do you re-read what you've written and wish it were more shiny? Do you worry that you should have studied writing with better teachers? If this is what you feel, then we offer you "Craft and Current," everything you need in one neat package about the size of a bank bag--affordable, accessible, activating, altering.

Twenty-seven-year-old Nell Stevens was determined to write a novel, but life kept getting in the way. Then came a game-changing opportunity: she won a fellowship that would let her spend three months, all expenses paid, anywhere in the world to research and write a book. Would she choose a glittering metropolis, a romantic village, an exotic paradise? Not exactly. Nell chose Bleaker Island, a snowy, windswept pile of rock in the Falklands. There, in a guesthouse where she would be the only guest, she could finally rid herself of distractions and write.

From the fragility of life almost gone in an instant at a crosswalk, to avoiding the shoals of adolescence, to cell phones driving us to distraction (as we drive!) to turning the tables on telemarketers, to the Iraq War coming home to a small town in Pennsylvania, these pieces are filled with insight and sensitivity, laced with humor and understanding. In his own very unique way, John Grogan makes all of us feel more connected to each other and less like strangers living in a strange land.