Pines and Plains Libraries

Featuring personal anecdotes and an abundance of information, a humorous guide, filled with poetry exercises, ideas, projects, and pointers, teaches readers how to write poetry, and proves that poetry is in fact irresistible!

Writing, for most of us, is bound up with anxiety. It's even worse when it feels like your whole future-or at least where you'll spend the next four years-is on the line. It's easy to understand why so many high school seniors put off working on their college applications until the last minute or end up with a generic and cachď essay. The good news? You already have the "secret sauce" for crafting a compelling personal essay: your own experiences...

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Determined to fit in at his New England prep school, the narrator has learned to mimic the bearing and manners of his adoptive tribe while concealing as much as possible about himself. His final year, however, unravels everything he's achieved, and steers his destiny in directions no one could have predicted. The school's mystique is rooted in Literature, and for many boys this becomes an obsession, editing the review and competing for the attention...

When a contest at the local library offers a prize for the best story, a girl tries to write one using her family's suggestions, but her story does not seem right until she listens to her heart.

An introduction to the craft of writing and storytelling offers unconventional advice and inspiration to help aspiring writers get ideas and put them onto paper, explaining how to use different tools to open oneself to creativity.

Focuses on the skills and techniques necessary for good writing and combines inspirational anecdotes and writing prompts with practical writing guidance on how to develop characters and plot, make revisions, and overcome writer's block.

A 1989 book on how to write dialogue in fiction and drama.