6 must-read audiobook books like Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different by Chuck Palahniuk

Cover of Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different by Chuck Palahniuk

Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different

By: Chuck Palahniuk

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with…

"Three parts description . Two parts instruction . One part onomatopoeia . Mix to taste ."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different

"Once someone who draws superheroes draws your picture , you never want to go back to reality ."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different

"My guess is that people haven’t a clue how to get along . They need a structure , rules , and roles to play ."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different

"All through that lunch I feigned interest in her cats , yes , cats , while psychically begging her to love me and interview me ."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different

If you liked the audiobook plot in Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different by Chuck Palahniuk , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley

1. This Year You Write Your Novel

By: Walter Mosley

4.06

Format: None pages,

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  • crafts
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • self help
Cover of Writing for Emotional Impact: Advanced Dramatic Techniques to Attract, Engage, and Fascinate the Reader from Beginning to End by Karl Iglesias

2. Writing for Emotional Impact: Advanced Dramatic Techniques to Attract, Engage, and Fascinate the Reader from Beginning to End

By: Karl Iglesias

3.99

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Karl Iglesias breaks new ground by focusing on the psychology of the reader. Based on his acclaimed… read more

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  • crafts
  • nonfiction
  • writing
Cover of The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

3. The Writing Life

By: Annie Dillard

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood;… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • crafts
Cover of Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

4. 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

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  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • crafts
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"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

Cover of Plastic by Laura   Martin, Doug Wagner, Daniel Hillyard

5. Plastic

By: Laura Martin , Doug Wagner , Daniel Hillyard

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Retired serial killer Edwyn Stoffgruppen is in love with Virginia, a girl he "met online." Her affe… read more

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Cover of Ernest Hemingway on Writing by Ernest Hemingway, None, Charles Scribner Jr.

6. Ernest Hemingway on Writing

By: Ernest Hemingway , None , Charles Scribner Jr.

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

An assemblage of reflections on the nature of writing and the writer from one the greatest American… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • writing

7. 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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8. Mandibles

By: Jeff Strand

3.94

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

Fire ants. Even when they're normal sized, they're horrible, wretched insects whose sting causes bu… read more

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9. Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Ursula K. Le Guin generously shares the accumulated wisdom of a lifetime's work. read more

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10. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

By: Stephen King

3.96

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

On Writing begins with King's childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. K… read more

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Cover of The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface by Donald Maass

11. The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface

By: Donald Maass

4.29

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Engage Your Readers with Emotion While writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plott… read more

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  • crafts
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • self help
"Plot happens outside but story happens inside. Readers won't get the true story, though, unless you put it on the page--both the big meaning in small events, and the overlooked implications of large …"

-Donald Maass, The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface

12. Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

By: Lisa Cron

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

This guide reveals how writers can utilize cognitive storytelling strategies to craft stories that … read more

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13. Anatomy of Genres

By: John Truby

4.23

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

A guide to understanding the major genres of the story world by the legendary writing teacher and a… read more

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  • crafts
  • nonfiction
  • writing
Cover of Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami

14. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts by Matt   Bell

15. 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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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • crafts
  • self help
Cover of Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different by Chuck Palahniuk

16. Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different

By: Chuck Palahniuk

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Palahniuk's Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different book and Chuck Palahniuk's Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different

  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • crafts
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"Three parts description . Two parts instruction . One part onomatopoeia . Mix to taste ."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different

"Once someone who draws superheroes draws your picture , you never want to go back to reality ."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different

"My guess is that people haven’t a clue how to get along . They need a structure , rules , and roles to play ."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different

"All through that lunch I feigned interest in her cats , yes , cats , while psychically begging her to love me and interview me ."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different

Cover of Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

17. Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.95

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The art and craft of writing by one of the few grandmasters of American literature, a bonanza for w… read more

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  • memoir
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  • writing
  • crafts
  • audiobook
Cover of Gentle Writing Advice: How to Be a Writer Without Destroying Yourself by Chuck Wendig

18. Gentle Writing Advice: How to Be a Writer Without Destroying Yourself

By: Chuck Wendig

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Finally--a book of writing advice that accounts for all of the messy, perverse, practical, and inex… read more

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  • self help
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • crafts
  • audiobook
Cover of The Writing Life: Reflections, Recollections and a Lot of Cursing by Jeff Strand

19. The Writing Life: Reflections, Recollections and a Lot of Cursing

By: Jeff Strand

4.62

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

He's been at it a long time, and has learned a lot of lessons along the way. And he shares them wit… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • writing
Cover of Starlet by Danger Slater

20. Starlet

By: Danger Slater

4.47

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

FAME. FORTUNE. JELLYFISH. When an aspiring young actress accepts an invite to a fading A-lister'… read more

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Cover of Snuggling the Grotesque by Jeff Strand

21. Snuggling the Grotesque

By: Jeff Strand

4.55

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

We apologize in advance for the fatal blow to your sanity, but Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jef… read more

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Transform Your Habits

This Year You Write Your Novel

Walter Mosley

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Writing for Emotional Impact: Advanced Dramatic Techniques to Attract, Engage, and Fascinate the Reader from Beginning to End

Karl Iglesias

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The Writing Life

Annie Dillard

3.26

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Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott

4.24

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Transform Your Habits

Write Your Novel From the Middle: A New Approach for Plotters, Pantsers and Everyone in Between

James Scott Bell

4.20

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The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, 2nd Edition

Christopher Vogler

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print

Renni Browne , None

4.24

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Save the Cat! Writes a Novel

Jessica Brody

4.50

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