creative writing

Mark Salzman chronicles his first years teaching at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles's most violent teenage offenders, discussing what his students taught him about life.

Provides practical instruction by best -selling authors, explains the elements of the creative process and writing techniques, how to write nonfiction, and lists 2,500 market listings for finished manuscripts.

Advice on ideas, plots, characters, adaptations, opportunities in the theater, and other considerations of the beginning playwright.

A simple guide to writing adventure stories.

Presents an introduction to the children's author, Dan Gutman, in simple text with photographs, providing information on his childhood, education, and how he became a writer.

Focuses on the skills and techniques necessary for good writing, with excerpts from established writers and samples of young people's work as examples.

Offers early education teachers practical strategies for using traditional fairy tales in the classroom, outlining the fairy tale genre's applications in various subjects and the author's personal approach to using the stories.

Carl Anderson explains how teachers can conduct powerful writing conferences in the classroom and integrate writing practices into their curriculum.

Presents a practical guide for teaching forms, elements, and writing of poetry to students in kindergarten through high school, and contains samples and bibliographies for sixteen poetic forms.