Product Description: Perfect Phrases to make an application essay stand out from the crowd Perfect Phrases for College Application Essays has the tools to communicate exactly what you want to say, with the style and panache that display your individual intelligence and creativity to the application board...read more

Product Description: In "Writing and Publishing Personal Essays," nationally acclaimed writing teacher Sheila Bender shares the tips and secrets that have given so many of her students the skills and confidence to become writers. Her clear and powerful instruction will benefit experienced writers as much as it benefits beginner...read more

The author shares the secrets of writing and publishing great essays in a useful, practical guide, quoting from and referencing E. B. White, Garrison Keillor, and Anna Quindlen, among others, to offer writers the best possible advice on the process and business of the personal essay.

Product Description: A writer's manual which demonstrates how to put personal experiences down on paper, including advice on writing about important people, places and events in an original manner.

Product Description: Keeping a Journal You Love mixes practical instruction from beloved author Sheila Bender with advice and sample journal entries from respected writers such as Ron Carlson, Patricia Hampl, Jim Harrison, Robin Hemley, Philip Lopate and others...read more

Amazon.com Review: It's a pity this book is presented solely as a tool for greater self-knowledge. Don't get us wrong: there's nothing wrong with introspection, and A Year in the Life helps train your gaze to far greater reaches than your navel. But there are so many fine writing exercises here, taking their cues from so many wonderful sources, that it would be a pity for the subtitle ("Journaling for Self-Discovery") to scare off any writer in search of a good workout...read more

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Product Description: Encouraging readers to write everything from dream journals and postcards to lists and clustered phrases, Sheila Bender gently teaches readers how to use words that show instead of tell, whilst avoiding general words that categorise.' (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Writing In a New Convertible with the Top Down delves into the daily realities of the creative process using the vehicle of an intimate correspondence between two talented, published writers. From their insights and examples, you can learn how to quit stalling, shift into creative gear, and speed successfully on your way...read more

Forty award-winning writers reveal the elements of the creative writing process through excerpts from their private journals, illuminating how they record what they observe and how their thoughts and observations end up in their work. Original. (view table of contents)

Letters between the two authors as they prepare for a writing workshop discuss such concerns as getting started writing, writer's block, meaning, the role of the unconscious, structure, and other areas