When you are facing down a blank page (or screen), a constraint-based prompt—for example, “you must use the words ‘cloud’ and ‘green’� or “you must set the scene in a crowded grocery store�—can get your brain working in unexpected ways. In this creative writing guide, long-time teacher and novelist Alice LaPlante shares 100 original exercises that will simultaneously push you into a corner and give you the tools to write yourself out of it. LaPlante explains the purpose of each exercise—to sharpen your ear for dialogue, generate surprising images or access intense emotions—and breaks down student examples to reveal how to achieve these goals. Whether you are looking to jumpstart new ideas or find a fresh angle on a work in progress, and whether you write fiction, creative nonfiction or poetry, Write Yourself Out of a Corner will strengthen your imagination and your craft.

'Moving and inspiring, courageous and true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun What happens when you realise that you must change your life? When - after years of hiding in routine, shrinking from opportunity, and sleepwalking through your days - you know you want more. How do you remake your life without breaking it? The Cure for Sleep is the stunning memoir of a smalltown wife and mother who returns from sudden near-death determined to live her second life on a larger, braver scale - whatever it takes, or costs.

This second volume of From the Vault continues where its best-selling original left off, in 1950. Spanning thirty years, From the Vault, Vol. 2 is chock full of photographs from The Windsor Star archives, with fascinating and fun chapter introductions by local reporter and award-winning historian Craig Pearson.

Ettienne Leroux en Ingrid Winterbach het begin briewe uitruil in 1966 wat gelei het tot die publikasie van een van Leroux se persoonlikste en geheimsinnigste werke, 18-44. Amper vyftig jaar later word Leroux se briewe deur Philip Snyman ontdek, ‘n afgedankte joernalis wat probeer om die pad na herstel te vind na die dood van sy meisie en die ineenstorting van sy loopbaan.

Hoe dieper Philip egter in die briewekorrespondensie delf, hoe meer raaisels en geheime boodskappe ontdek hy. Dit lei hom na ‘n onverwagse, tragiese verkenning, nie net van Leroux nie, maar ook homself.

Hy raak al hoe meer obsessief. Hy praat met homself en skryf rye en rye getalle neer waarin hy insiggewende ooreenkomste sien. Teen hierdie tyd kan niks meer as die waarheid aanvaar word nie, en moet die leser saam met Philip die raaisel probeer oplos.

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him.

On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black—black clothes, black mask—rushed down the aisle toward him, wielding a knife. His first thought: So it’s you. Here you are.

What followed was a horrific act of violence that shook the literary world and beyond. Now, for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, Rushdie relives the traumatic events of that day and its aftermath, as well as his journey toward physical recovery and the healing that was made possible by the love and support of his wife, Eliza, his family, his army of doctors and physical therapists, and his community of readers worldwide.

Knife is Rushdie at the peak of his powers, writing with urgency, with gravity, with unflinching honesty. It is also a deeply moving reminder of literature’s capacity to make sense of the unthinkable, an intimate and life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art—and finding the strength to stand up again.

'these letters thus far have remained unsent, i want you to change that for me.' Embrace honesty and heal beautifully. In the letters i will never send, TikTok poet Isabella Dorta urges you to leave nothing unsaid and take comfort in moving poems on love, heartbreak, mental health and self-discovery. With beautiful line illustrations and over 100 poems written in the form of confessional letters addressed to the most influential figures in your life: Your younger self Your future self Your lover Your body Your family and more Take the ultimate step. Read, rip out, burn or send the letters out into the world. Write your own and share them with the people in your life. Just don't hold back!

Solkattu, the spoken rhythms and patterns of hand-clapping used by all musicians and dancers in the classical traditions of South India, is a subject of worldwide interest - but until now there has not been a textbook for students new to the practice. Designed especially for classroom use in a Western setting, the manual begins with rudimentary lessons in the simplest South Indian tala, or metric cycle, and proceeds step-by-step into more challenging material. The book then provides lessons in the eight-beat adi tala, arranged so that by the end, students will have learned a full percussion piece they can perform as an ensemble. Solkattu Manual includes web links to video featuring performances of all 150 lessons, and full performances of all three of the outlined small-ensemble pieces. Ideal for courses in world music and general musicianship, as well as independent study. Book lies flat for easy use.

Dieser Band informiert über die Herkunft sowie die Verwendung von Runen und gibt einen Überblick über die Runeninschriften vom 3. Jahrhundert nach Christus bis in das späte Mittelalter. Er erklärt die Voraussetzungen zur Deutung von Runen und Runendenkmälern und bietet eine kleine Geschichte der Runologie. Die fünfte Auflage wurde um ein umfangreiches Kapitel zur aktuellen Forschungslage erweitert.e.