Do your characters smile, frown, sign, or shiver too much? Are their hearts always racing, their breath rushing, or worse, they stand there, doing nothing at all? It’s okay, you aren’t alone. Writing powerful, fresh emotional description can be a challenge…or rather it used to be before The Emotion Thesaurus came along. This bestselling guide helps you break free from tired des...(展开全部)

安琪拉·阿卡曼 （ Angela Ackerman） 美国作家、写作教练、演讲家，SCBWI（儿童书作家和插画家协会）会员，主要创作以“年轻人的烦恼”为题材的小说。现在和丈夫、两个孩子、爱犬和宠物鱼一起生活在毗邻落基山脉的加拿大阿尔伯塔省卡尔加里。 贝卡·帕格利希 （Becca Puglisi） 美国作家、写作教练、演讲家，SCBWI会员，主要创作面向青年读者的奇幻小说与历史虚构作品，同时也为杂志撰稿。生活在阳光灿烂的佛罗里达南部，平时喜欢看电影、喝含咖啡因的饮料。现在和丈夫及两个孩子生活在一起。

It’s a writer’s job to create compelling characters who can withstand life’s fallout without giving up. But building authentic, memorable heroes is no easy task. To forge realistic characters, we must hobble them with flaws that set them back while giving them positive attributes to help them achieve their goals. So how do writers choose the right blend of strengths for their c...(展开全部)

The Careful Writer is a concise yet thorough handbook, covering in more than 2,000 alphabetized entries the problems that give (or should give) writers pause before they set words to paper. It is perhaps the liveliest and most entertaining reference work for writers of our time—delighting while it instructs and amusing even as it scolds and cajoles the reader into skillful, per...(展开全部)

The Careful Writer is a concise yet thorough handbook, covering in more than 2,000 alphabetized entries the problems that give (or should give) writers pause before they set words to paper. It is perhaps the liveliest and most entertaining reference work for writers of our time—delighting while it instructs and amusing even as it scolds and cajoles the reader into skillful, per...(展开全部)

With known exoplanets now numbering in the thousands and initiatives like 100 Year Starship and Breakthrough Starshot advancing the idea of interstellar travel, the age-old dream of venturing forth into the cosmos and perhaps even colonizing distant worlds may one day become a reality. A Traveler’s Guide to the Stars reveals how. Les Johnson takes you on a thrilling tour of the...(展开全部)

目前已知的系外行星数量已达数千颗，而“100周年星舰”和“突破摄星”等举措也推动了星际旅行的理念，冒险进入宇宙甚至殖民遥远世界的古老梦想有一天可能成为现实。 《星空旅行者指南》揭示了其中的原理。 莱斯·约翰逊将带您踏上一次激动人心的物理学和技术之旅，这些物理学和技术可能使我们能够到达星星。 他讨论了新的系外行星发现、在不远的地平线上有希望的星际任务，以及太空推进、电力、机器人、通信等方面令人兴奋的新发展。 但星际旅行并不容易，而且不适合胆小的人。 约翰逊描述了等待着我们的严酷而令人生畏的广阔空间，并解决了我们为了实现明天的可能性而需要克服的艰巨挑战——包括人类和技术方面的挑战。 《星空旅行者指南》是您通往人类发现的下一个伟大前沿的通行证，它提供了罕见的内部视角，让您了解科学和技术方面的显着突破，这将帮助明天的太空旅行者规划星空航线。 With kno...(展开全部)

Readers connect to characters with depth, ones who have experienced life's ups and downs. To deliver key players that are both realistic and compelling, writers must know them intimately-not only who they are in the present story, but also what made them that way. Of all the formative experiences in a character's past, none are more destructive than emotional wounds. The afters...(展开全部)

Making readers care and feel like they’re part of the story should be the number one goal of all writers. Ironically, many storytellers fail to maximize one of fiction’s most powerful elements to achieve this: the setting. Rather than being a simple backdrop against which events unfold, every location has the potential to become a conduit for conveying emotion, characterizing t...(展开全部)

多萝西娅·布兰德（Dorothea Brande）是一位备受尊敬的作家，曾在纽约做编辑。出生在芝加哥，后在芝加哥大学、芝加哥刘易斯学院和密歇根大学任教。《成为作家》一书在1934年出版后，风行美国文学界近80年，是长盛不衰的经典之作。