Author: James Scott Bell
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1582976848
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Craft an Engaging Plot How does plot influence story structure? What's the difference between plotting for commercial and literary fiction? How do you revise a plot or structure that's gone off course? With Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure, you'll discover the answers to these questions and more. Award-winning author James Scott Bell offers clear, concise information that will help you create a believable and memorable plot, including: • Techniques for crafting strong beginnings, middles, and ends • Easy-to-understand plotting diagrams and charts • Brainstorming techniques for original plot ideas • Thought-provoking exercises at the end of each chapter • Story structure models and methods for all genres • Tips and tools for correcting common plot problems Filled with plot examples from popular novels, comprehensive checklists, and practical hands-on guidance, Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure gives you the skills you need to approach plot and structure like an experienced pro.
Write Great Fiction - Plot & Structure
Author: James Scott Bell
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1582976848
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Craft an Engaging Plot How does plot influence story structure? What's the difference between plotting for commercial and literary fiction? How do you revise a plot or structure that's gone off course? With Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure, you'll discover the answers to these questions and more. Award-winning author James Scott Bell offers clear, concise information that will help you create a believable and memorable plot, including: • Techniques for crafting strong beginnings, middles, and ends • Easy-to-understand plotting diagrams and charts • Brainstorming techniques for original plot ideas • Thought-provoking exercises at the end of each chapter • Story structure models and methods for all genres • Tips and tools for correcting common plot problems Filled with plot examples from popular novels, comprehensive checklists, and practical hands-on guidance, Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure gives you the skills you need to approach plot and structure like an experienced pro.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1582976848
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Craft an Engaging Plot How does plot influence story structure? What's the difference between plotting for commercial and literary fiction? How do you revise a plot or structure that's gone off course? With Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure, you'll discover the answers to these questions and more. Award-winning author James Scott Bell offers clear, concise information that will help you create a believable and memorable plot, including: • Techniques for crafting strong beginnings, middles, and ends • Easy-to-understand plotting diagrams and charts • Brainstorming techniques for original plot ideas • Thought-provoking exercises at the end of each chapter • Story structure models and methods for all genres • Tips and tools for correcting common plot problems Filled with plot examples from popular novels, comprehensive checklists, and practical hands-on guidance, Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure gives you the skills you need to approach plot and structure like an experienced pro.
Tinker Dabble Doodle Try
Author: Srini Pillay, M.D.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 1101883669
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Harness your mind’s innate tendency to wander, stall, rest, and unfocus and become more productive—in the boardroom, living room, or classroom. Named one of Coastal Living’s Best Books for the Beach This Summer To finish tasks and achieve goals, most people believe that more focus is the solution. We rely on to-do lists, calendar reminders, noise-blocking headphones, and sometimes medication to help us concentrate—even though these tactics often fail to substantially improve productivity. Drawing on the latest brain research, compelling stories from his psychological practice, and colorful examples of counterintuitive success from sports, business, education, and the arts, neuroscientist Srini Pillay, M.D., challenges traditional ideas about productivity, revealing the lasting, positive benefits of adding deliberate and regular unfocus to your repertoire. A fascinating tour through brain wavelengths and rhythm, mindsets, and mental relaxation, Tinker Dabble Doodle Try demonstrates how specific kinds of planned unfocus stimulate cognitive calmness, jumpstart productivity, enhance innovation, inspire creativity, improve long-term memory, and, of course, help you stay on target. Tinkering with ideas and with things releases your mind to wander from a state of stuckness into a possibility frame of mind, triggering neural connections and new insights. Dabbling in a new endeavor—whether a hobby or fantasy—disrupts your habitual and reactive thinking, helping you find new solutions to old problems. Doodling can help you tap into another brain frequency to remove obstacles and create opportunities and inspiration. With techniques for training the brain to unfocus, concepts for scheduling busy lives, and ideas for controlling this new cognitive-toggling capability, Tinker Dabble Doodle Try will change how you think about daydreaming, relaxing, leaving work unfinished, and even multitasking. What you’ll discover is a greater freedom, a deeper intelligence, and a more profound joy in your life. Praise for Tinker Dabble Doodle Try “Pillay’s effortless writing style, combined with an excellent balance of popular psychology and self-help, makes this a helpful read for those who enjoy a light dive into psychology with practical applications.”—Library Journal “Pillay cites an intriguing range of brain studies to support his argument, and his case studies of individuals with whom he has worked provide useful insights.”—Kirkus Reviews “Dr. Srini Pillay offers a brilliant, deeply researched, and even more deeply imagined blueprint for using one’s full mental armamentarium, conscious, unconscious, and all the undiscovered rest! A fantastic book!”—Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., co-author of Delivered from Distraction “Dr. Pillay’s new book will help you create a new, fun, more playful destiny and unlock your brain’s inner potential.”—Daniel G. Amen, M.D., co-author of The Brain Warrior’s Way “This book not only gives you license to step off the hamster wheel of focus, focus, focus, but it will show you how to strategically and productively do so.”—JJ Virgin, author of JJ Virgin’s Sugar Impact Diet “This brilliant book shows how to manipulate your brain to alternate between intense concentration and deliberate mind-wandering.”—Mark Robert Waldman, co-author of How God Changes Your Brain
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 1101883669
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Harness your mind’s innate tendency to wander, stall, rest, and unfocus and become more productive—in the boardroom, living room, or classroom. Named one of Coastal Living’s Best Books for the Beach This Summer To finish tasks and achieve goals, most people believe that more focus is the solution. We rely on to-do lists, calendar reminders, noise-blocking headphones, and sometimes medication to help us concentrate—even though these tactics often fail to substantially improve productivity. Drawing on the latest brain research, compelling stories from his psychological practice, and colorful examples of counterintuitive success from sports, business, education, and the arts, neuroscientist Srini Pillay, M.D., challenges traditional ideas about productivity, revealing the lasting, positive benefits of adding deliberate and regular unfocus to your repertoire. A fascinating tour through brain wavelengths and rhythm, mindsets, and mental relaxation, Tinker Dabble Doodle Try demonstrates how specific kinds of planned unfocus stimulate cognitive calmness, jumpstart productivity, enhance innovation, inspire creativity, improve long-term memory, and, of course, help you stay on target. Tinkering with ideas and with things releases your mind to wander from a state of stuckness into a possibility frame of mind, triggering neural connections and new insights. Dabbling in a new endeavor—whether a hobby or fantasy—disrupts your habitual and reactive thinking, helping you find new solutions to old problems. Doodling can help you tap into another brain frequency to remove obstacles and create opportunities and inspiration. With techniques for training the brain to unfocus, concepts for scheduling busy lives, and ideas for controlling this new cognitive-toggling capability, Tinker Dabble Doodle Try will change how you think about daydreaming, relaxing, leaving work unfinished, and even multitasking. What you’ll discover is a greater freedom, a deeper intelligence, and a more profound joy in your life. Praise for Tinker Dabble Doodle Try “Pillay’s effortless writing style, combined with an excellent balance of popular psychology and self-help, makes this a helpful read for those who enjoy a light dive into psychology with practical applications.”—Library Journal “Pillay cites an intriguing range of brain studies to support his argument, and his case studies of individuals with whom he has worked provide useful insights.”—Kirkus Reviews “Dr. Srini Pillay offers a brilliant, deeply researched, and even more deeply imagined blueprint for using one’s full mental armamentarium, conscious, unconscious, and all the undiscovered rest! A fantastic book!”—Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., co-author of Delivered from Distraction “Dr. Pillay’s new book will help you create a new, fun, more playful destiny and unlock your brain’s inner potential.”—Daniel G. Amen, M.D., co-author of The Brain Warrior’s Way “This book not only gives you license to step off the hamster wheel of focus, focus, focus, but it will show you how to strategically and productively do so.”—JJ Virgin, author of JJ Virgin’s Sugar Impact Diet “This brilliant book shows how to manipulate your brain to alternate between intense concentration and deliberate mind-wandering.”—Mark Robert Waldman, co-author of How God Changes Your Brain
LOOK! This is the way it is
Author: Aileen Amador Mezza
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098019806
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
One moment she was invincible and the next she was immobile. In this debut autobiography for Aileen Amador Mezza, she speaks of the inflated invincibility and endeavors of her younger days when she thought she knew it all. She went from a sheltered and catholic Colombian upbringing to take on this crazy world with too many options at her disposal. This book shares her raw confessions of her time at San Diego State University and beyond while explaining how she crawled out of what could have ended her life completely. She found herself in a drug induced state after experimenting with Psilocybin mushrooms. She went through a physical and emotional uphill battle with her family and team of medical professionals to drag herself out of the drug- induced psychosis. As you read this journey, you will find yourself immersed in her experiences throughout many years of life and just how much your path can change with what originally felt like a very small event in a big world. “It was a little bit like treating some of the athletes I help, where you see somebody with great potential, and what do we do? We get their life in balance.” —Dr. Michael T. Lardon M.D. is one of the premier mental performance coaches in the world, with clients in more than a dozen professional and Olympic sports. —Author of “FINDING YOUR ZONE: 10 Core Lessons for Achieving Peak Performance in Sports and Life” Co-Authored “MASTERING GOLF’S MENTAL GAME: Your Ultimate Guide to Better On-Course Performance and Lower Scores”
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098019806
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
One moment she was invincible and the next she was immobile. In this debut autobiography for Aileen Amador Mezza, she speaks of the inflated invincibility and endeavors of her younger days when she thought she knew it all. She went from a sheltered and catholic Colombian upbringing to take on this crazy world with too many options at her disposal. This book shares her raw confessions of her time at San Diego State University and beyond while explaining how she crawled out of what could have ended her life completely. She found herself in a drug induced state after experimenting with Psilocybin mushrooms. She went through a physical and emotional uphill battle with her family and team of medical professionals to drag herself out of the drug- induced psychosis. As you read this journey, you will find yourself immersed in her experiences throughout many years of life and just how much your path can change with what originally felt like a very small event in a big world. “It was a little bit like treating some of the athletes I help, where you see somebody with great potential, and what do we do? We get their life in balance.” —Dr. Michael T. Lardon M.D. is one of the premier mental performance coaches in the world, with clients in more than a dozen professional and Olympic sports. —Author of “FINDING YOUR ZONE: 10 Core Lessons for Achieving Peak Performance in Sports and Life” Co-Authored “MASTERING GOLF’S MENTAL GAME: Your Ultimate Guide to Better On-Course Performance and Lower Scores”
The Spiritual Magazine
Aeroplane
A Minute of Presence for Women
Author: Leigh McLeroy
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
ISBN: 1496422848
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Open your eyes to the wonder God has waiting for you. In the midst of our busy schedules and the constant distractions our culture offers us, it can be difficult to feel God and see the way he's working in our lives. He is the creator of the universe, the author of salvation, the beginning and end of everything that is--but that doesn't mean he's far away. The truth is, God is revealing himself to us all the time, in even the littlest details of our everyday. If we can only slow down and open our eyes to see it, we can begin to catch glimpses of him wherever we are and whatever our circumstances may be. In A Minute of Presence for Women, spend a year retreating with God--and awaken your heart to his wonder all around you.
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
ISBN: 1496422848
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Open your eyes to the wonder God has waiting for you. In the midst of our busy schedules and the constant distractions our culture offers us, it can be difficult to feel God and see the way he's working in our lives. He is the creator of the universe, the author of salvation, the beginning and end of everything that is--but that doesn't mean he's far away. The truth is, God is revealing himself to us all the time, in even the littlest details of our everyday. If we can only slow down and open our eyes to see it, we can begin to catch glimpses of him wherever we are and whatever our circumstances may be. In A Minute of Presence for Women, spend a year retreating with God--and awaken your heart to his wonder all around you.
The Aeroplane
The Court Magazine & Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine
The Court Magazine and Belle Assemblée
Best Things Fathers Do
Author: Will Glennon
Publisher: Mango Media Inc.
ISBN: 1609250354
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
A one-of-a-kind collection of interviews, research, and personal experiences that detail the journey of fatherhood and the joys that come with it. Fathering is a full-time job. It’s no secret. Whether it’s an only child or a full house. Once you’re a father, it’s a lifetime commitment filled with something new to learn at every corner. In this helpful book, author and dad extraordinaire Will Glennon combine his personal experiences along with wisdom and insight from fathers near and far to provide the ultimate positive parenting guide. Raising children is no easy feat. Fathers are more involved than ever with daily care, teaching, and rearing of their children. Discover the role that you play in your child’s life with the Best Things Fathers Do. Learn to:Celebrate the best that Fatherhood offersDiscover the tools for raising children successfullyBuild close, powerful emotional bonds with your children Fatherhood is a gift. It’s time to enjoy and discover all that it has to offer with Best Things Fathers Do.
Publisher: Mango Media Inc.
ISBN: 1609250354
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
A one-of-a-kind collection of interviews, research, and personal experiences that detail the journey of fatherhood and the joys that come with it. Fathering is a full-time job. It’s no secret. Whether it’s an only child or a full house. Once you’re a father, it’s a lifetime commitment filled with something new to learn at every corner. In this helpful book, author and dad extraordinaire Will Glennon combine his personal experiences along with wisdom and insight from fathers near and far to provide the ultimate positive parenting guide. Raising children is no easy feat. Fathers are more involved than ever with daily care, teaching, and rearing of their children. Discover the role that you play in your child’s life with the Best Things Fathers Do. Learn to:Celebrate the best that Fatherhood offersDiscover the tools for raising children successfullyBuild close, powerful emotional bonds with your children Fatherhood is a gift. It’s time to enjoy and discover all that it has to offer with Best Things Fathers Do.