海伦·索德（Helen Sword），普林斯顿大学比较文学博士，现任奥克兰大学高等教育学习和研究中心教授和主任，新西兰皇家学会会员。学者、诗人，出版作品涵盖现代主义文学、学术写作、高等教育学和数字诗学等领域，并运营着写作网站www.writersdiet.com。 海伦·索德积极倡导在学术、教学和文艺领域中实现创新和增进技艺。2007年，她因创新性教学获得奥克兰大学优秀教学奖，2013年，因对新西兰高等教育研究领域的重要影响荣获赫德萨-特恩兹研究奖（HERDSA-TERNZ Research Medal），2017年，获得奥克兰大学杰出研究奖。海伦·索德曾在北美、欧洲、非洲、亚洲以及澳大利亚的17个国家的60多所大学中为高校教师和博士生开设写作研习班，广受欢迎。另著有《时髦的学术写作》《激发灵感》《鬼魅现代主义》等书。

Do your sentences sag? Could your paragraphs use a pick-me-up? If so, The Writer’s Diet is for you! It’s a short, sharp introduction to great writing that will help you energize your prose and boost your verbal fitness. Helen Sword dispenses with excessive explanations and overwrought analysis. Instead, she offers an easy-to-follow set of writing principles: use active verbs wh...(展开全部)

In his midtwenties, Dave Asprey was a successful Silicon Valley multimillionaire. He also weighed 300 pounds, despite the fact that he was doing what doctors recommended: eating 1,800 calories a day and working out 90 minutes a day, six times a week. When his excess fat started causing brain fog and food cravings sapped his energy and willpower, Asprey turned to the same hackin...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·沃格勒（Christopher Vogler） 国际上备受尊重的编剧和写作技巧大师，常年担任好莱坞各大制片公司编剧顾问，《狮子王》《搏击俱乐部》和《细细的红线》等著名影片的故事创作均受其影响。他独创的“英雄之旅”故事模型曾对世界编剧理论产生了巨大冲击

"Where do you get your ideas?" It's a question and a quandary that bedevils every writer. And once you've got an idea, what then? Ideas without a plan, without a purpose, are no more than pleasant thoughts. In The Writer's Idea Book, Jack Heffron, former senior editor at Writer's Digest Books and Story Press, will help you find the answer. Utilizing over 400 prompts and exercis...(展开全部)

Writers will jump start their creativity with over 500 unique idea-generating prompts, from clustering to role-playing to automatic writing, that get the words flowing.

Since its publication ten years ago, "The Writer's Idea Book" has become one of the most popular creativity books for writers. In this new edition, every chapter features new exercises, text, and examples - nearly one hundred pages of additional content overall. In addition, a new section called "Questions to Consider" has been added at the end of each chapter to generate furth...(展开全部)

Here we have the anatomy of the contemporary writer, imagined by the pseudonymous, “post-exotic” Antoine Volodine. His writers are not the familiar, bitter, alcoholic kind; nor are they great, romantic, tortured geniuses; and least of all they are media darlings and socialites. In Volodine’s universe, the writer is pitted in a pathetic struggle against silence and sickness, whe...(展开全部)

克里斯蒂娜·卡拉斯，电影和电视编剧、制片人，电影系教授，欧洲编剧联合会主席。她的作品包括故事片《母亲》（Mothers，2010）、《欧盟风云》（The Commissioner，1998）、《火线冲突》（I.D.，1994）和《爱情与谎言》（Liebe Lügen，1997）等，目前在哥伦比亚大学艺术学院、巴纳德学院电影系和纽约新媒体研究学院任教。