Alan Watt Livres

"Learn how to structure your novel without losing connection to your voice. Why you are uniquely qualified to write your novel. The dilemma at the heart of your story. How your fears are a portal into your characters. The connection between your life themes and story themes. Why you kept getting stuck, and how to break through"--back cover.

After leaving her marriage to rock star Chick Wolfson, Alice embarks on a journey of self-discovery that leads her to the small town of Waiden, Oregon. Stranded and without resources, she takes a minimum wage job at a dilapidated inn. There, she becomes involved with Webb Cooley, a recent parolee harboring his own secrets. Their relationship offers both an escape and a challenge, as their growing intimacy risks uncovering the truths they have hidden from themselves and each other.

Shakespeare was born into a new age of will, in which individual intent had the potential to overcome dynastic expectation. The 1540 Statute of Wills had liberated testamentary disposition of land and thus marked a turning point from hierarchical feudal tradition to horizontal free trade. Focusing on Shakespeare's late Elizabethan plays, Gary Watt demonstrates Shakespeare's appreciation of testamentary tensions and his ability to exploit the inherent drama of performing will. Drawing on years of experience delivering rhetoric workshops for the Royal Shakespeare Company and as a prize-winning teacher of law, Gary Watt shows that Shakespeare is playful with legal technicality rather than obedient to it. The author demonstrates how Shakespeare transformed lawyers' manual book rhetoric into powerful drama through a stirring combination of word, metre, movement and physical stage material, producing a mode of performance that was truly testamentary in its power to engage the witnessing public. Published on the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's last will and testament, this is a major contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of law and humanities.

Investigating changes in upbringing in the North Caucasus, a region notorious for violent conflict, this book explores the lives of the generation born after the dissolution of the USSR who grew up under conditions of turmoil and rapid social change. It avoids the �traditional� presentation of the North Caucasus as a locus of violence, and instead presents the life of people in the region through the lens of the young generation growing up there. Using focus groups with teachers and students of different ethnic groups, as well as surveys and essays written by children, the book suggests that while the legacy of conflict plays a role in many children�s lives, it is by no means the only factor in their upbringing. It explores how conflict has influenced upbringing, and goes on to consider factors such as the revival of religion, the impact of social and economic upheaval, and the shifting balance between school and parents. As well as revealing the dynamic influences on children�s upbringing in the region, the book presents recommendations on how to address some of the challenges that arise. The role of government in education is also evaluated, and prospects for the future are considered. The book is useful for students and scholars of Education, Sociology and Central Asian Studies.

Alan Watt wrote the first draft of his novel, Diamond Dogs in just under 90 days, and six months later sold the North American rights to Little, Brown for half a million dollars in a bidding war. In this day-by-day guide through the process of outlining and writing the first draft of your novel in 90 days, he will show you: How to structure you novel without losing connection to your voice Why you are uniquely qualified to write your story The dilemma at the heart of your story How your fears are a portal into your characters The connection between your life themes and story themes Why you kept getting stuck, and how to break through

Neil Garvin ist siebzehn und lebt bei seinem Vater. Er geht zur Highschool in Carmen, Nevada - einem gottverlassenen Nest in der Nähe von Las Vegas. In der Footballmannschaft seiner Schule ist er der Star. Doch Neil hat auch eine dunkle Seite. Seine Mutter verließ die Familie, als er drei Jahre alt war. Heimlich gibt Neil seinem Vater die Schuld daran. Dieser - als Sheriff von Carmen ein allseits geachteter Mann - gebärdet sich zu Hause oft als unberechenbarer und cholerischer Tyrann. Die Angst ist das vertrauteste Gefühl, was Neil seinem Vater gegenüber empfindet. Eines Abends kommt es nach einer wüsten Party zur Katastrophe: In angetrunkenem Zustand überfährt Neil einen Klassenkameraden, der auf der Stelle tot ist. Und plötzlich wird der Mann, den Neil am meisten hasst zu seinem Komplizen wider Willen. Als sich das Netz der Ermittlungen immer enger um den verstörten Jungen zieht und die Anspannung unerträglich wird, kommt es zu einer explosiven Konfrontation zwischen Vater und Sohn, bei der Neil die erschütternde Wahrheit über seine Mutter erfährt Mit einer erzählerischen Kraft, die aus der spröden Sprache seines siebzehnjährigen Helden erwächst und umso mehr berührt, je schnörkelloser sie daherkommt, erzählt Alan Watt, was es heißt, schuldig zu werden, und was es heißt, zu lieben. Ein großes Buch, an dessen Ende die Hoffnung steht.