Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life
By: Bonnie Friedman
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The first book for writers that explores the emotional side of writing--dealing with everything fro…
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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
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- poetry
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- writing
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- self help
"keep your hand moving"-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
"Write about “leaving."-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
2. M Is for Magic
By: Neil Gaiman , Teddy Kristiansen
3.63
Format: 353 pages,
Stories to delight, enchant, and surprise you. Bestselling author and master storyteller Neil Gaima… read more
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3. Lessons from a Lifetime of Writing: A Novelist Looks at His Craft
By: David Morrell
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Novelist David Morrell provides insights and advice learned during 30 years of writing and selling … read more
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- crafts
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- writing
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4. The Miracle of Morning Pages: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Most Important Artist's Way Tool: A Special from Tarcher/Penguin
By: Julia Cameron
3.50
Format: None pages,
In this invaluable companion to Julia Cameron's seminal work on the creative process, The Artist's … read more
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- nonfiction
- writing
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5. The Book of Speculation
By: Erika Swyler
4.15
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and captivating debut novel about a young librarian who is sent a mysterious old book, i… read more
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6. The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories
By: Leo Tolstoy , Hugh McLean
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Leo Tolstoy combined detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight to sweep a… read more
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7. Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life
By: Bonnie Friedman
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The first book for writers that explores the emotional side of writing--dealing with everything fro… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- writing
- reference
- crafts
- self help
8. Zen in the Art of Writing
By: Ray Bradbury
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a land mine. The land mine is me. After the explosion,… read more
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9. Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft
By: Janet Burroway , Elizabeth Stuckey-French
2.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
The most widely used and respected text in its field, Writing Fiction, 7e guides the novice story w… read more
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10. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
By: Francine Prose
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
In her entertaining and edifying New York Timesbestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites … read more
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11. How to Be a Pirate (How to Train Your Dragon, #2)
By: Cressida Cowell
3.00
Format: 468 pages, Hardcover
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was a Viking Hero--dashing, brave, and ever so clever. But even Vikin… read more
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12. History of the Rain
By: Niall Williams
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling… read more
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13. Finishing School: The Happy Ending to That Writing Project You Can't Seem to Get Done
By: Danelle Morton , Cary Tennis
4.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
All too many people start a writing project with grand ambitions but reach a crisis of completion. … read more
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14. One Crazy Summer (Gaither Sisters, #1)
By: Rita Williams-Garcia
4.30
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with… read more
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15. The Writer's Process: Getting Your Brain in Gear
By: Anne H. Janzer
5.00
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
"Research-based, hands-on, step-by-step wisdom that can help you wrestle with the lizard brain. Cer… read more
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16. Save the Cat! Writes a Novel
By: Jessica Brody
4.50
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
SAVE THE CAT!® by Blake Snyder is a popular screenwriting book series and storytelling methodology … read more
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- nonfiction
- writing
- reference
- crafts
- self help
"We call that real problem the SHARD OF GLASS. It's a psychological wound that has been festering beneath the surface of your hero for a long time. The skin has grown over it, leaving behind an unsigh…"-Jessica Brody, Save the Cat! Writes a Novel
17. Dear Writer, You Need to Quit (QuitBooks for Writers, #1)
By: Becca Syme
4.48
Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition
I know, I know, you don’t want to quit writing, and I’m not going to convince you to quit writing. … read more
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- writing
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- self help
18. Deeper: Real Change for Real Sinners
By: Dane C. Ortlund
4.58
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
“Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” —2 Peter 3:18 How do Chri… read more
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19. Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the '80s
By: Gary Gulman
4.14
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
A tour de force of comedy and reflection about the perilous journey from kindergarten to twelfth gr… read more
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- nonfiction
20. Novelist as a Vocation
By: Haruki Murakami
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more
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- nonfiction
- writing
"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
21. The Road from Belhaven
By: Margot Livesey
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young wom… read more
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22. Seven Empty Houses
By: Samanta Schweblin
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of… read more
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23. 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
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24. Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
By: Jane Alison
4.09
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"Doctors don't imitate Galen. Why should writers follow Aristotle? Jane Alison in her fresh, origin… read more
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"So often fictions that experiment formally do so at the expense of feeling. They toy on surfaces or are purely cerebral affairs, don’t explore human complexities. But the mostly unconventional narrat…"-Jane Alison, Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
25. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
By: Rob Harvilla
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more
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"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
26. The Chinese Groove
By: Kathryn Ma
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Anne Tyler meets Jade Chang in this buoyant, good-hearted, and sharply written novel about a blithe… read more
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27. Faith, Hope and Carnage
By: Nick Cave
4.44
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more
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- spirituality
"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
28. The Pole
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.69
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
A psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about dogged love and the unpredictability o… read more
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29. Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
By: Matthew Salesses
4.47
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking resource for fiction writers, teachers, and students, this manifesto and practica… read more
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"Workshops operate on the golden-rule policy: do for others as you want for yourself. Your fellow classmates will see from your comments what kind of feedback to give no matter how much of a push the …"-Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
"You should ask macro questions and point out macro opportunities. Which means, for example, you might state your understanding (or not) of the story, list observations that seem especially juicy, ask…"-Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
"When you are workshopped, it is important to remember that you will not connect with everything that is said. You shouldn’t! Don’t listen to everything; don’t take every suggestion—trust your instinc…"-Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
30. Elements of Fiction
By: Walter Mosley
3.79
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel , Walter Mosley supplied aspiring wr… read more
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31. T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People
By: Ian Karmel
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Comedian Ian Karmel, with help from sister Dr. Alisa Karmel, opens up about the daily humiliations … read more
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- nonfiction
"You're a raw nerve in that era of your existence. Life hurts, and that isn't unique to fat people or to any one group, really. Pretty much everyone goes through some version of young-adult malaise. T…"-Ian Karmel, T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People
