6 Best reference books like Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer by Julia Cameron

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Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer

By: Julia Cameron

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A 6-Week Artist’s Way Program Julia Cameron has been teaching the world about creativity since h…

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1. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

By: Natalie Goldberg

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her b… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within book and Julia Cameron's Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer

  • art
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • reference
  • crafts
  • how to
  • self help
"Write about “leaving."

-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

"keep your hand moving"

-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

"Begin with “I remember."

-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

"We learn writing by doing it."

-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

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2. Bird by Bird

By: Anne Lamott

4.24

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more

Similar categories in Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird book and Julia Cameron's Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer

  • self help
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • reference
  • crafts
  • audiobook
"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

3. Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

By: Dani Shapiro

4.04

Format: 226 pages,

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4. The Heroine's Journey: For Writers, Readers, and Fans of Pop Culture

By: Gail Carriger

4.46

Format: 210 pages, ebook

Tired of the hero’s journey? Frustrated that funny, romantic, and comforting stories aren’t taken … read more

Similar categories in Gail Carriger's The Heroine's Journey: For Writers, Readers, and Fans of Pop Culture book and Julia Cameron's Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer

  • crafts
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • reference
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5. Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts

By: Matt Bell

4.46

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

They say writing is rewriting. So why does the second part get such short shrift? Refuse To Be Done… read more

Similar categories in Matt Bell's Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts book and Julia Cameron's Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • reference
  • crafts
  • audiobook
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6. On Writing (and Writers): A Miscellany of Advice and Opinions

By: C.S. Lewis

4.18

Format: 208 pages, ebook

"While writing about writing is often deadly, Lewis is as delightful as he is wise." --The New York… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's On Writing (and Writers): A Miscellany of Advice and Opinions book and Julia Cameron's Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer

  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • audiobook
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7. The Creative Act: A Way of Being

By: Rick Rubin

4.04

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more

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  • audiobook
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • self help
"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

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8. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

By: Melissa Febos

4.24

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more

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  • self help
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • crafts
  • audiobook
"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

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9. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

By: Katherine May

3.62

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more

Similar categories in Katherine May's Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age book and Julia Cameron's Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

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10. 1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round

By: Jami Attenberg

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by Jami Attenberg’s wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this writer’s gui… read more

Similar categories in Jami Attenberg's 1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round book and Julia Cameron's Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • reference
  • crafts
  • how to
  • audiobook
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11. Write for Your Life

By: Anna Quindlen

3.95

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In this clarion call to pick up a pen and find yourself from "one of our most astute chroniclers of… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's Write for Your Life book and Julia Cameron's Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • self help
"Solitude can lead to a tunnel within ourselves at the end of which is a room we didn't even know was there."

-Anna Quindlen, Write for Your Life

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12. Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer

By: Julia Cameron

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A 6-Week Artist’s Way Program Julia Cameron has been teaching the world about creativity since h… read more

Similar categories in Julia Cameron's Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer book and Julia Cameron's Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer

  • art
  • self help
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • writing
  • reference
  • crafts
  • how to
  • audiobook
Cover of Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories by Charlie Jane Anders

13. Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories

By: Charlie Jane Anders

4.22

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Things are scary right now. We’re all being swept along by a tidal wave of history, and it’s easy t… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Jane Anders's Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories book and Julia Cameron's Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer

  • art
  • self help
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • crafts
  • audiobook
Cover of The Cure for Burnout: How to Find Balance and Reclaim Your Life by Emily Ballesteros

14. The Cure for Burnout: How to Find Balance and Reclaim Your Life

By: Emily Ballesteros

4.15

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Is dread the first thing you feel when you wake up in the morning? Are you working in the evenings … read more

Similar categories in Emily Ballesteros's The Cure for Burnout: How to Find Balance and Reclaim Your Life book and Julia Cameron's Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Way of the Fearless Writer

By: Beth Kempton

4.41

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Beth Kempton's The Way of the Fearless Writer is a mindful approach to the writing life, based on B… read more

Similar categories in Beth Kempton's The Way of the Fearless Writer book and Julia Cameron's Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer

  • self help
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • writing
  • crafts
  • audiobook
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16. Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page

By: Cathy Rentzenbrink

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Why do we write and what stops us? How does the urge to express ourselves fight with the worry tha… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Rentzenbrink's Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page book and Julia Cameron's Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • self help
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17. The Chekhov Collection of Short Stories

By: Anton Chekhov

3.84

Format: 7 pages, Audible Audio

Whilst Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is perhaps best for his plays such as Uncle Vanya and The Seagull,… read more

Similar categories in Anton Chekhov's The Chekhov Collection of Short Stories book and Julia Cameron's Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer

  • audiobook
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18. The Light Room

By: Kate Zambreno

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in clo… read more

Similar categories in Kate Zambreno's The Light Room book and Julia Cameron's Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer

  • art
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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19. Evergreen: Discover the Joy in Every Season

By: Lydia Elise Millen

3.87

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

Inspired by the wisdom of the natural world, Evergreen is the essential guide for anyone who is loo… read more

Similar categories in Lydia Elise Millen's Evergreen: Discover the Joy in Every Season book and Julia Cameron's Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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20. Scripting the Life You Want: Manifest Your Dreams with Just Pen and Paper

By: Royce Christyn

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A step-by-step guide to the process of “scripting” your future and successfully manifesting what yo… read more

Similar categories in Royce Christyn's Scripting the Life You Want: Manifest Your Dreams with Just Pen and Paper book and Julia Cameron's Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer

  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Writing on Empty: A Guide to Finding Your Voice by Natalie Goldberg

21. Writing on Empty: A Guide to Finding Your Voice

By: Natalie Goldberg

3.69

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author and teacher Natalie Goldberg shares her inspiring personal journey out of a deva… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Goldberg's Writing on Empty: A Guide to Finding Your Voice book and Julia Cameron's Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • writing
  • self help

15 Top audiobook books like Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer by Julia Cameron

Transform Your Habits

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts

Matt Bell

4.46

Transform Your Habits

On Writing (and Writers): A Miscellany of Advice and Opinions

C.S. Lewis

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Rick Rubin

4.04

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15 best-selling audiobook books like Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos

Transform Your Habits

The Art of Memoir

Mary Karr

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Splinters

Leslie Jamison

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

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