Useful Websites
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Oxford English Dictionary (OED)The OED is the definitive record of the English language, featuring 600000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1000 years of English.
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OneLook Reverse DictionaryHave a word on the tip of your tongue but can't think of it? This resource helps you find the word you're looking for.
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HivewordTool that allows you to plot and organize the elements of your stories.
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Literary HubBook news, reviews, literary works, and advice on design and craft.
Format-Specific Guides
Short Stories
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Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular
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Here is a practical guide to writing short stories that explains all the essential techniques of fiction - from character and plot to flashback and foreshadowing - in a way that is both understandable and useful to the beginning writer. Long considered a classic in the field, WRITING IN GENERAL is the product of a lifetime of reflection by one of our best literary minds.
Call Number: PN3373 .H48 2000Publication Date: 2000 -
Playwriting
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New Dramaturgies : Strategies and Exercises for 21st Century Playwriting
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Playwriting: A Practical Guide by
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Playwriting in Process
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Playwriting in Process: Thinking and Working Theatrically is written to encourage new and experienced playwrights to build techniques for a greater range of creative expression in writing for the stage. The book uses exercises to guide playwrights towards thinking and working theatrically. The exercises help playwrights start or revise their work by providing alternate ways of thinking about their subject and their processes. New to the second edition: new exercises, a general updating such as the use of the internet, a new chapter for teachers and playwriting group leaders on using this book in class, and end-of-chapter "Call Out" exercises. Useful for playwrights at all levels.
Call Number: PN1661 .W75 2010Publication Date: 2009
Screenwriting
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Screenwriting for Neurotics
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Screenwriting
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Screenwriters often joke that "no one ever paid a dollar at a movie theater to watch a screenplay." Yet the screenplay is where a movie begins, determining whether a production gets the "green light" from its financial backers and wins approval from its audience. This innovative volume gives readers a comprehensive portrait of the art and business of screenwriting, while showing how the role of the screenwriter has evolved over the years. Reaching back to the early days of Hollywood, when moonlighting novelists, playwrights, and journalists were first hired to write scenarios and photoplays, Screenwriting illuminates the profound ways that screenwriters have contributed to the films we love. This book explores the social, political, and economic implications of the changing craft of American screenwriting from the silent screen through the classical Hollywood years, the rise of independent cinema, and on to the contemporary global multi-media marketplace. From The Birth of a Nation (1915), Gone With the Wind (1939), and Gentleman's Agreement (1947) to Chinatown (1974), American Beauty (1999), and Lost in Translation (2003), each project began as writers with pen and ink, typewriters, or computers captured the hopes and dreams, the nightmares and concerns of the periods in which they were writing. As the contributors take us behind the silver screen to chronicle the history of screenwriting, they spotlight a range of key screenplays that changed the game in Hollywood and beyond. With original essays from both distinguished film scholars and accomplished screenwriters, Screenwriting is sure to fascinate anyone with an interest in Hollywood, from movie buffs to industry professionals.
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The Pleasures of Structure : learning screenwriting through case studies
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Publication Date: 2015
Books
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The Language of Fiction
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Vivid and Continuous
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Craft in the Real World : rethinking fiction writing and workshopping
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Journals & Databases
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Twentieth Century North American Drama This link opens in a new windowScripts for more than 1,900 plays, many published here for the first time, along with information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. Also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera.
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Project Muse This link opens in a new windowA leading provider of digital humanities and social science content. Offers full-text versions of scholarly journals and books from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies.