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Dobbins L: Author Platform: How to
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Most novels are forgotten within a year of being read. The ones that aren't survive on the strength of a few well-placed images. Every novelist eventually faces the same problem: the image that worked beautifully in the first draft has flattened into decoration by the third, the recurring motif has begun to feel like a refrain, and the central symbol the book was supposed to turn on now seems to be carrying nothing in particular. This book is about why that happens and what to do about it. Symbolism and Imagery: Enhancing Your Narrative through Meaningful Motifs works through the specific moves that turn description into meaning - how images accumulate weight across a novel, how a symbol earns its place in a scene, how clarity and resonance can be held together rather than traded against each other. Symbolism, the argument runs, is not decoration laid over a novel but the load-bearing structure that determines what readers carry from it. Inside: <ul><li>Build a recurring image that gathers meaning across a novel without becoming a refrain</li><li>Use symbols as foreshadowing without telegraphing the ending</li><li>Diagnose the moment a symbol stops earning its place on the page</li><li>Hold clarity and resonance together so that one does not undermine the other</li><li>Render descriptive language that does structural work, not just atmospheric work</li><li>Recognise when your symbolic vocabulary is hardening, and what to do about it</li></ul> &gt;Symbolism is what stays in a reader after the plot has gone. This book is about how to put it there.

Enhancing Your Narrative through Meaningful Motifs

Symbolism and Imagery

Creative Writing Curiosity: Ten Essays on the Curious and Writerly is a lively collection examining how curiosity informs, shapes, deepens and empowers creative writing. Across ten varied essays the collection explores curiosity as stimulus, as guide, as teacher, companion or provocateur. Sometimes initiating, sometimes encouraging deeper thinking and greater imagining, and often the impetus, curiosity is shown as innate and routinely engaged with uncertainty. It is from our desire to know, the questioning that our curiosity entails, that creative writing emerges. Ultimately, it is shown that curiosity is manifest not only in what we write creatively but in how we go about writing it.

Ten Essays on the Curious and the Writerly Volume 1

Creative Writing Curiosity

What if reading poetry could change you--not just what you think, but how you move through the world?For forty years, Thomas Gardner led students through this transformative act--not analyzing poems from a distance but reperforming them from the inside. Walking together through Elizabeth Bishop's broken beaches, Robert Frost's snowy woods, and Emily Dickinson's rooms of possibility, they discovered that getting lost is how we are found. That acknowledging fragility opens eyes to wonder. That poems, like parables, ask us not to produce definitive explanations but to keep up.A Place of Encounter is Gardner's luminous record of this work. Through fifty-one short lyric essays moving between memory, close reading, and theological reflection, he opens up the inner drama of poems as spiritual exercises--spaces where, as Dickinson puts it, our narrow hands are forced wide to gather paradise. With the grace and precision of the poems he loves, Gardner shows how deep reading grooves interior change.Here is the classroom as temple: bodies leaning forward, voices rising together, readers discovering they're no longer alone. Here is teaching from a position of faith that speaks across every spiritual commitment. Here is poetry as a place of encounter.

On Poetry, Teaching, and Faith

A Place of Encounter

You’ve got a great story, but do you have great sentences?Stylish sentences have their own powerful energy that mesmerizes and even rearranges a reader’s world. Think of this book as a private lesson with Nina Schuyler — award winning author and professor of creative writing — featuring guest appearances by the masters, including James Baldwin, Grace Paley, Anne Carson, Justin Torres, and Toni Morrison. They’ve arrived to show you the mechanics of their magic.&nbsp;Featuring 31 essays and over 100 writing prompts, How to Write Stunning Sentences is the best way to practice writing sentences with style. The second edition of this indispensable guide includes seven new essays and more prompts.Sibylline Press is proud to announce its new imprint, Sibyl Writing Craft, dedicated to providing definitive titles on writing craft and the book business for writers.

How to Write Stunning Sentences

A creative masterclass for aspiring and established writers alikeAfter decades of writing award-winning books on subjects ranging from poetry to art to liturgical seasons, celebrated author Marilyn McEntyre turns her attention to the vocation that has shaped her life. Start with a Word: On the Craft and Adventure of Writing is a literary masterclass that eschews drills and formulas in favor of close readings and refreshingly playful advice.A veteran teacher, Marilyn understands that the best writing instruction doesn't come from rigid rules or rote approaches to filling the blank page. Instead, she demonstrates how the writers whose works we have enjoyed can become our tutors. She calls us to move beyond asking "What does this text say?" to a more revealing question: "How does this text work?" This shift in perspective--from passive consumption to active apprenticeship--transforms how we encounter literature and how we create it.More than a how-to manual, Start with a Word is an invitation into a way of being that honors both the precision and the mystery of words. It offers short lessons on essential elements of literary craft, close readings of passages from a range of works, writing prompts, and, above all, encouragement for authors to find their unique path into work only they can create. "Reading and writing keep alive in us the desire to be precise, lively, surprising, generous, inviting, challenging, wise. They make us want to be good, if only in the sense that choosing exact and appropriate words is a matter of choosing the good. . . . I don't think you can be an excellent writer without developing some virtues, if only fidelity to a practice that honors the gift of language."

On the Craft and Adventure of Writing

Start with a Word

1000 Plot Twists for Your Cozy Fantasy Novel

A kettle on the hearth. A familiar curled on the windowsill. The smell of something baking in a kitchen that has learned, over years of careful tending, to feel like home. In cozy fantasy, magic is not a weapon - it is a presence, a conversation, the particular quality of a world that knows you are there and is glad of it. When protagonists build lives worth having in communities worth belonging to and discover that the ordinary afternoon is full of wonder if you know how to look, the most powerful stories emerge from one question: what does it mean to be truly, quietly, completely home?Imogen Blake's 1000 Plot Twists for Your Cozy Fantasy Novel delivers complete, actionable complications designed specifically for the cozy fantasy tradition. Each twist embodies the genre's essential elements: community as the central value, magic as intimacy rather than power, conflict resolved through patience and creativity, and the deep satisfaction of a life built from small right acts.What you'll discover inside: <ul><li>The Magical Village Life - Enchanted cottages, market days, and the rhythms of a community worth belonging to</li><li>Small Mysteries &amp; Gentle Problems - Complications that invite ingenuity rather than catastrophe</li><li>The Magical Shop or Inn - Where strangers arrive and become known</li><li>Community &amp; Friendships - The found family, built through accumulated small kindnesses</li><li>Magical Creatures &amp; Companions - The familiar who sees everything and says what no one else will</li><li>Gentle Romance &amp; Relationships - Two people who are good for each other gradually discovering it</li><li>The Cozy Conflict - Mild villains, gentle mysteries, resolutions that leave everyone larger than before</li><li>Home &amp; Happiness - The arrival, the celebration, the moment of things being exactly right</li></ul>Layer these twists to create warmth without sentimentality. Stack the magical against the ordinary until the ordinary reveals itself as the more extraordinary of the two.The small is not the consolation prize. The tended life is the whole point.

Slanted Magazine #47 - Digital Tools untersucht die Instrumente, die die zeitgenössische kreative Praxis prägen. Diese Ausgabe bietet einen vielfältigen Einblick in die globale Kreativszene und zeigt anhand vieler Beispiele, wie digitale Werkzeuge eingesetzt werden, um Design selbst zu schaffen, zu hinterfragen und neu zu denken. Das Spektrum reicht von experimentellen Open-Source-Projekten und maßgeschneiderten Skripten bis hin zu unverzichtbaren Hilfsprogrammen, die kreative digitale und analoge Arbeitsabläufe prägen und dabei gestalterische Grenzen kontinuierlich erweitern und neu definieren.
Slanted Magazine #47 - Digital Tools umfasst Disziplinen wie Grafik- und Schriftdesign, Illustration, 3D, Web, generatives Design und kreatives Coding. Designer*innen, Künstler*innen und Entwickler*innen kommen in Interviews und Beiträgen zu Wort und berichten, wie digitale Werkzeuge ihre Ästhetik, Vorstellungskraft und Urheberschaft prägen. Mit der Vorstellung neuer Arbeitsabläufe und Technologien inspiriert Slanted Magazine #47 - Digital Tools sowohl erfahrene Designer*innen als auch Anfänger*innen dazu, das kreative Potenzial des digitalen Designs zu erkunden.

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Live and Write Her Journey

Fairy Tale Heroine

Want to create characters readers can't forget? Start here.Most fiction writers know what their characters do-but struggle with why they do it. Fiction Character Psychology bridges that gap, giving you the psychological frameworks professional writers use to build authentic, multi-dimensional characters that resonate with readers long after the final page. This isn't another "fill in the character worksheet" guide. It's a comprehensive exploration of human psychology specifically adapted for fiction writing-from foundational personality theory to the subtle markers of trauma, mental illness, and moral complexity. Inside, you'll discover: <ul><li>Personality architecture - How the Big Five traits, MBTI types, and Enneagram systems create distinct character voices and behavior patterns</li><li>Motivation frameworks - Why Maslow's Hierarchy (with a revolutionary internal/external needs approach) explains what drives your characters at every stage of their journey</li><li>Psychological authenticity - How to portray depression, anxiety, PTSD, personality disorders, and other conditions without stereotypes or exploitation</li><li>Relationship dynamics - The Karpman Drama Triangle, attachment styles, and interpersonal patterns that create compelling conflict</li><li>Moral complexity - How to build characters who operate in ethical gray zones without losing reader sympathy</li><li>Age-appropriate development - Psychological realism for characters from childhood through elderhood</li><li>Specialized populations - Authentic portrayal of characters with disabilities, neurodivergence, and marginalized identities</li><li>Applied techniques - Practical tools for revealing psychology through action, dialogue, and internalization rather than exposition</li></ul>Whether you're writing literary fiction, genre thrillers, romance, or science fiction, this reference transforms abstract psychology into concrete character-building strategies. Each section moves from foundational concepts to nuanced applications, with examples showing how psychological principles manifest in actual character behavior. Stop creating cardboard cutout puppets. Start building characters who leap off the page and live in the reader's mind.

For Fiction Writers

Fiction Character Psychology

A great speech can change everything-but most experts are never taught how to write one.

The One-Page Keynote is the missing framework that turns what you know into a winning speech that lands every time, whatever the topic.

Written for scientists, academics, researchers, and industry leaders, this book shows you how to design a compelling, well structured keynote that keeps audiences engaged, makes your ideas clear, and leaves people thinking differently than when they arrived-no charisma required.


Learn to:Design a complete keynote speech on a single page
Capture your audience's attention in the first 60 seconds, without gimmicks
Sustain engagement for the full length of your talk
Influence how people think, so you can change what they do
Confidently say "yes" to speaking opportunities-and make them count

How to Design a Speech That Always Works, No Charisma Required

The One-Page Keynote

Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature presents the experiences and voices of Black creative writers who are also teachers. The authors in this collection engage poetry, fiction, experimental literature, playwriting, and literary criticism. They provide historical and theoretical interventions and practical advice for teachers and students of literature and craft. Contributors work in high schools, colleges, and community settings and draw from these rich contexts in their essays. This book is an invaluable tool for teachers, practitioners, change agents, and presses. Teaching Black is for any and all who are interested in incorporating Black literature and conversations on Black literary craft into their own work.

The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature

Teaching Black

1000 Writing Prompts for Urban Fantasy

Somewhere in your city, there's a licensed combustion stairwell. A Thursday-night stall that sells the last five minutes of a memory. A planning committee quietly rezoning a ley-line before the morning rush. Urban fantasy lives in the collision between paperwork and wonder - and this is the toolkit that gets it onto the page. 1,000 prompts across 50 themed chapters, covering: <ul><li>Cities that act like characters - neighbourhoods, night markets, liminal corners, and the infrastructure magic runs on</li><li>The people who move through them - reluctant mages, magical PIs, street witches, techno-mancers, exiled fae</li><li>The institutions that regulate them - magic police, covens, black markets, arcane universities, zoning wars</li><li>The supernatural that haunts them - vampires, fae courts, ghosts, demons, industrial spirits, techno-faiths</li><li>The stories they generate - heists, case-of-the-week, gang wars, city-scale conspiracies, redemption arcs</li><li>The real craft on offer isn't the prompt - it's the move underneath it. Every chapter trains the same skill: taking a generic idea ("a stranger sells something strange at a night market") and loading it with enough specificity - a real street, a real licence, a real reason someone stops tonight - that a whole scene falls out ready to write.</li></ul> &gt;Written with care for the genre's ethics - folklore ownership, policing analogues, displacement, trauma - for writers who want their cities strange, their stakes real, and their pages honest.

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