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  • Novel Writing Blueprint: A storytellers guide to the craft

    Jill Harris

    eBook (Narrative Beats, May 6, 2017)
    Let’s face it, writing a novel should be fun but many people think it’s hard.What if there was a system that could help you enjoy your writing more??Novel Writing Blueprint is just that book. It will help you to take the grunt work out of the equation, and learn to love the process without dampening your creative spirit or detracting from your voice.This blueprint provides the framework your book needs. It will support and strengthen your writing process and will help you make your writing dreams come true. No matter if you’re working on your first book or you’ve been publishing for years, this book will help you navigate from writing the first line to writing ‘The End’.Inside, you’ll learn everything you need to know about:Prewriting - preparation and approachResearch - how much and how long?Story Goals - the difference between goals and hooksCharacter Development - personality types and how to work with themSettings - how to make them more interestingOutlining - a different method of outlining your book quick and easilyPremise - the core of your storyOutlining overview - the general shape of your bookInitial outline sketch - start simpleFour-Act Structure with the 3 main thresholds - Initiation, Decisions, Response, Realisation, Battle, Friend, SacrificeFocused freewriting - tackling your first draft, writing fast, writing smartEditing - 3 main sweeps and working with a professionalPublishing - brief notes on bringing out your bookAnd more!If you’re ready to level up your novel writing process, try the blueprint for yourself.Interview with the author. What is the main message you’d like your readers to take away from this book?You must write to the end. You must finish your book. To do this, remember: The story is the journey. You set out prepared with a map, supplies, a sturdy rucksack, and an idea of what might it will be like. But somewhere along the way, you encounter obstacles. A landslide, an unexpected river, a bear… You may stumble, you may fall down a crevasse. Your hand may become trapped under a heavy rock. You are trapped. You cry out in anguish. “What can I do to make this work?”This is how it is for all of us. Writers are weird. We love story, but making our own stories is an art. And art, like love, is painful at times.Which means our work is always an internal as well as an external experience. We must step into the mind of a murderer, a warrior, a mother, a child. We must encounter dragons, office politics, Queens, and Dukes. We must fall in love, search for treasure, leave home, assassinate the enemy, seek revenge, suffer grief, betrayal, and injustice. We must lose everything. We must survive that loss. Over and over again.Whether you write genre fiction or literary works of tender existential angst, you are a storyteller. And telling stories can lead to madness. Didn’t your mother warn you of this?But nothing stops you. You know you are a writer if you refuse to give up. You know you can overcome every plot hole, strengthen every character arc, bring every setting alive for your reader. All you need is practise. And a deep understanding of the craft.You are an intrepid artist of your own inner landscape. You will change with each story you write.
  • The Wolf in Your Bed: How to use writing to recover from emotional abuse

    Jill Harris

    eBook (narrative beats, July 21, 2011)
    Toxic love from a narcissistic partner is like living in a Dark Fairytale. Have you ever had an abusive relationship?Is your relationship turning into a toxic, hellish nightmare?Do you sometimes wonder if you will ever recover from the degrading words and actions you’ve experienced?The answer is that you can. The negative side-effects that you are experiencing are temporary and can be overcome and in her insightful and thoughtful book, The Wolf in Your Bed, Jill Harris will show you:What emotional abuse really look likeWhat the symptoms of traumatic bonding areWhich damaging Dark Fairytale story structure you've been trapped inThe personality type of the wolf in your bedAnd much more…Using the latest research in the therapeutic effects of creative writing, Jill uses this and her background in psychology to take you through a step-by-step healing process like no other. Get in touch with your imaginative and healing self through writing, observe the richness of your own thoughts and feelings, design a powerful map of your world and learn to love your life once more.It can be done and you can do it. The Wolf in Your Bed will help you become a howling success.
  • Novel Writing Blueprint Workbook: A writer's journal to help you go from idea to publication

    Jill Harris

    eBook (Narrative Beats, June 10, 2017)
    HTML Code:Let’s face it, Writing a novel should be easy and fun but many people think it’s hard!.What if there was a system that could help you enjoy your writing more??Novel Writing Blueprint Workbook is the companion journal to the Novel Writing Blueprint helping you to come back to your love of storytelling. It will help you to take the grunt work out of the equation, and learn to love the process without dampening your creative spirit or detracting from your voice.This blueprint provides the framework your book needs. It will support and strengthen your writing process and will help you make your writing dreams come true. No matter if you’re working on your first book or you’ve been publishing for years, this book will help you navigate from writing the first line to writing ‘The End’.Inside, you’ll learn everything you need to know about:Prewriting - preparation and approachResearch - how much and how long?Story Goals - the difference between goals and hooksCharacter Development - personality types and how to work with themSettings - how to make them more interestingOutlining - a different method of outlining your book quick and easilyPremise - the core of your storyOutlining overview - the general shape of your bookInitial outline sketch - start simpleFour-Act Structure with the 3 main thresholds - Initiation, Decisions, Response, Realisation, Battle, Friend, SacrificeFocused freewriting - tackling your first draft, writing fast, writing smartEditing - 3 main sweeps and working with a professionalPublishing - brief notes on bringing out your bookAnd more!If you’re ready to level up your novel writing process, try the blueprint for yourself.
  • Novel Writing Blueprint Workbook: A novel writer's journal

    Jill Harris

    Paperback (Narrative Beats, June 19, 2017)
    HTML Code: Let’s face it, Writing a novel should be easy and fun but many people think it’s hard!.What if there was a system that could help you enjoy your writing more??Novel Writing Blueprint Workbook is the companion journal to the Novel Writing Blueprint helping you to come back to your love of storytelling. It will help you to take the grunt work out of the equation, and learn to love the process without dampening your creative spirit or detracting from your voice.This blueprint provides the framework your book needs. It will support and strengthen your writing process and will help you make your writing dreams come true. No matter if you’re working on your first book or you’ve been publishing for years, this book will help you navigate from writing the first line to writing ‘The End’.Inside, you’ll learn everything you need to know about:Prewriting - preparation and approachResearch - how much and how long?Story Goals - the difference between goals and hooksCharacter Development - personality types and how to work with themSettings - how to make them more interestingOutlining - a different method of outlining your book quick and easilyPremise - the core of your storyOutlining overview - the general shape of your bookInitial outline sketch - start simpleFour-Act Structure with the 3 main thresholds - Initiation, Decisions, Response, Realisation, Battle, Friend, SacrificeFocused freewriting - tackling your first draft, writing fast, writing smartEditing - 3 main sweeps and working with a professionalPublishing - brief notes on bringing out your bookAnd more!If you’re ready to level up your novel writing process, try the blueprint for yourself.
  • Novel Writing Blueprint: A storytellers guide to the craft

    Jill Harris

    Paperback (Narrative Beats, May 15, 2017)
    HTML Code: Let’s face it, Writing a novel should be easy and fun but many people think it’s hard!.What if there was a system that could help you enjoy your writing more??Novel Writing Blueprint will show you how helping you to come back to your love of storytelling. It will help you to take the grunt work out of the equation, and learn to love the process without dampening your creative spirit or detracting from your voice.This blueprint provides the framework your book needs. It will support and strengthen your writing process and will help you make your writing dreams come true. No matter if you’re working on your first book or you’ve been publishing for years, this book will help you navigate from writing the first line to writing ‘The End’.Inside, you’ll learn everything you need to know about:Prewriting - preparation and approachResearch - how much and how long?Story Goals - the difference between goals and hooksCharacter Development - personality types and how to work with themSettings - how to make them more interestingOutlining - a different method of outlining your book quick and easilyPremise - the core of your storyOutlining overview - the general shape of your bookInitial outline sketch - start simpleFour-Act Structure with the 3 main thresholds - Initiation, Decisions, Response, Realisation, Battle, Friend, SacrificeFocused freewriting - tackling your first draft, writing fast, writing smartEditing - 3 main sweeps and working with a professionalPublishing - brief notes on bringing out your bookAnd more!If you’re ready to level up your novel writing process, try the blueprint for yourself. Interview with the author. What is the main message you’d like your readers to take away from this book?You must write to the end. You must finish your book. To do this, remember: The story is the journey. You set out prepared with a map, supplies, a sturdy rucksack, and an idea of what might it will be like. But somewhere along the way, you encounter obstacles. A landslide, an unexpected river, a bear… You may stumble, you may fall down a crevasse. Your hand may become trapped under a heavy rock. You are trapped. You cry out in anguish. “What can I do to make this work?”This is how it is for all of us. Writers are weird. We love story, but making our own stories is an art. And art, like love, is painful at times.Which means our work is always an internal as well as an external experience. We must step into the mind of a murderer, a warrior, a mother, a child. We must encounter dragons, office politics, Queens, and Dukes. We must fall in love, search for treasure, leave home, assassinate the enemy, seek revenge, suffer grief, betrayal, and injustice. We must lose everything. We must survive that loss. Over and over again.Whether you write genre fiction or literary works of tender existential angst, you are a storyteller. And telling stories can lead to madness. Didn’t your mother warn you of this?But nothing stops you. You know you are a writer if you refuse to give up. You know you can overcome every plot hole, strengthen every character arc, bring every setting alive for your reader. All you need is practise. And a deep understanding of the craft.You are an intrepid artist of your own inner landscape. You will change with each story,
  • The Wolf in Your Bed: How to use writing to recover from emotional abuse

    Jill Harris

    Paperback (Independently published, June 16, 2017)
    Toxic love from a narcissistic partner is like living in a Dark Fairytale. Have you ever had an abusive relationship?Is your relationship turning into a toxic, hellish nightmare?Do you sometimes wonder if you will ever recover from the degrading words and actions you’ve experienced?The answer is that you can. The negative side-effects that you are experiencing are temporary and can be overcome and in her insightful and thoughtful book, The Wolf in Your Bed, Jill Harris will show you:What emotional abuse really look likeWhat the symptoms of traumatic bonding areWhich damaging Dark Fairytale story structure you've been trapped inThe personality type of the wolf in your bedAnd much more…Using the latest research in the therapeutic effects of creative writing, Jill uses this and her background in psychology to take you through a step-by-step healing process like no other. Get in touch with your imaginative and healing self through writing, observe the richness of your own thoughts and feelings, design a powerful map of your world and learn to love your life once more.It can be done and you can do it. The Wolf in Your Bed will help you become a howling success.
  • The Write State: A manual of rituals to get you writing

    Jill Harris

    eBook (Narrative Beats, Nov. 20, 2016)
    Have you hit a brick wall with your writing?Is writer’s block something that is featuring more and more, while your creativity suffers?Many writers feel the same way. They want to write, edit and publish and then do the same all over again. For many, it was what they were born to do and a sudden loss of inspiration can be an unwelcome and worrying development.The Write State is a book which has been written, specifically to help you overcome those difficulties, through a series of rituals aimed at supercharging your mind.Inside these pages, I am going to help you to:Invoke ideas and creativityIdentify and use effective daily rituals Understand the processes behind writing fictionIdentify unique approaches to writingLearn the different stagesBecome a master of your craftI have been writing, editing, teaching and learning the secrets of finding inspiration for the past ten years. I have come to realise that there is more than one state of mind when it comes to successful writing and there are 5 distinct stages in the process; prewriting, freewriting, rewriting, publishing and nurturing. Get your copy of The Write State today and together we will develop and build on these, to ensure that you never hit that wall again.
  • Buddha Baby's Living Creatures

    Jill Harrison

    Paperback (Buddha Baby Books, Nov. 13, 2015)
    During their first year of life, babies and toddlers learn to view the world. As their sight develops, and the world comes into focus, high-contrast visuals, such as black and white patterns, help stimulate newborn eye development. The messages that children hear impact how they learn to see the world. Buddha Baby Books are picture books with high contrast Zen drawings & gentle stories to support the development of vision & loving kindness in babies and toddlers. Buddha Baby's Living Creatures is a story that invites children to listen as they explore their connection to animals.
  • Sil: A Novel

    Jill Harris

    eBook (Random House New Zealand, May 1, 2012)
    A Watership Down of a tale for junior readers based around New Zealand's native bird, the tui.Sil: adolescent tui and rising star. His startling song compositions arouse admiration and jealousy among his age-mates as he prepares for the annual competitions. Bron: fearless, daredevil flier, a tomboy who tells it like it is. She's Sil's best friend but Sil can see that handsome Tor is luring her away. Tor, Bek, Jeb, Pip, Mem, Bel: the very existence of the whole tui clan who sing in the dawn, hang off flax bushes, build nests and play aerial games of 'floop' is under threat. Magpies: an outcast gang beginning a campaign of devastation and annihilation in the valley. Across the harbour at the competitions, Sil stuns his audience with his singing but, blinded by pride, he makes a fatal mistake. Can he rise from disgrace to help the tuis strike back?
  • Missing Toby: A Novel

    Jill Harris

    eBook (Random House New Zealand, Dec. 1, 2012)
    A warm-hearted story for junior readers about a young girl's friendship with a dog. Harriet is missing her brother. She's refusing to believe that he's not coming back. She wants him to return to his untidy bedroom and make her parents happy again - like they used to be before Toby went away. Ten-year-old Harriet is lonely and is having difficulty coping with school. But she notices the dog next door is receiving visits from other neighbourhood dogs who are teaching him how to slip his collar - then slip back into it. Meanwhile, mysterious parcels are arriving in the mail for her. The dogs, who talk amongst themselves, befriend Harriet, and lead her to a garden shed where they've hidden a small, stray dog called Girl. Harriet's life becomes intertwined with the doggy community in her neighbourhood and she makes some wonderful friends: Max and Gus. In the middle of a botched rescue, Gus is whisked off to the dog pound. And Max, distressed and upset, sets out with Girl through a violent storm in order to save him. Harriet realises she must help her new-found friends, and also gradually comes to terms with the fact that Toby isn't coming back. This affecting and warm-hearted story by an award-winning writer is about the grief of a child and the healing powers of man's best friend. Missing Toby will be encouraging to children who are frightened by dogs, and gives pleasure to those who already love them.
  • Three Little Dinosaurs, The

    Jim Harris

    Hardcover (Pelican Publishing, Aug. 31, 1999)
    A pea-brained T-Rex learns what bullies so often discover: that little dinosaurs--or little children--grow up . . . sometimes way up!
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  • Buddha Baby's Heart

    Jill Harrison

    Paperback (Buddha Baby Books, Nov. 12, 2015)
    During their first year of life, babies and toddlers learn to view the world. As their sight develops, and the world comes into focus, high-contrast visuals, such as black and white patterns, help stimulate newborn eye development. The messages that children hear impact how they learn to see the world. Buddha Baby Books are picture books with high contrast Zen drawings & gentle stories to support the development of vision & loving kindness in babies and toddlers. Buddha Baby's Heart is a story that invites children to explore shapes as Buddha Baby searches for his heart.