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Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King. Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King’s critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work.“Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly ...
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"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized...
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'The Elements of Style' (1918), by William Strunk, Jr., is an American English writing style guide. It is the best-known, most influential prescriptive treatment of English grammar and usage, and often is required reading and usage in U.S. high school and university composition classes. This edition of 'The Elements of Style' details eight elementa...
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On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, b...
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"A superb tutorial for anyone wanting to learn from pros how to polish fiction writing with panache."-- Library JournalHundreds of books have been written on the art of writing. Here at last is a book by two professional editors to teach writers the techniques of the editing trade that turn promising manuscripts into published novels and short stor...
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Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese and David Bowie are just a few of his celebrity alumni. Writers, producers, development exe...
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Rolf PottsFor more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice--"it is backed by two thousand years of studying the...
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This classic guide, from the renowned novelist and professor, has helped transform generations of aspiring writers into masterful writers— and will continue to do so for many years to come. John Gardner was almost as famous as a teacher of creative writing as he was for his own works. In this practical, instructive handbook, based on the courses ...
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The first novel-writing guide from the best-selling Save the Cat! story-structure series, which reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any novel a success. Novelist Jessica Brody presents a comprehensive story-structure guide for novelists that applies the famed Save the Cat! screenwriting methodology to the world of novel writing. Rev...
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New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller uses the seven universal elements of powerful stories to teach readers how to dramatically improve how they connect with customers and grow their businesses.Donald Millers StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their businesses. This revolution...
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Scott HarrisonA witty, informative guide to writing "good English" from Random House's longtime copy chief and one of Twitter's leading enforcers of proper grammar--a twenty-first-century Elements of Style. As authoritative as it is amusing, this book distills everything Benjamin Dreyer has learned from the hundreds of books he has copyedited, including works by...
Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Dispatches by Michael Herr
Jim Trelease's Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease
Art Matters by Neil Gaiman
Make Good Art by Neil Gaiman
American Prison by Shane Bauer
Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Plot & Structure by James Scott Bell
Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass
Story Genius by Lisa Cron
The Writers Journey by Christopher Vogler
The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
Everybody Writes by Ann Handley
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
Wired for Story by Lisa Cron
Write. Publish. Repeat. by Sean Platt
Stein On Writing by Sol Stein
Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg
A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver
Story Engineering by Larry Brooks
Ernest Hemingway on Writing by Larry W. Phillips
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
The Situation and the Story by Vivian Gornick
Aspects of the Novel by E M Forster
Scratch by Manjula Martin
Wonderbook by Jeff Vandermeer
The Anatomy of Story by John Truby
Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t by Steven Pressfield
2k to 10k by Rachel Aaron
Let's Get Digital by David Gaughran
The Emotional Craft of Fiction by Donald Maass
The Adweek Copywriting Handbook by Joseph Sugarman
On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner
4 A.M. Breakthrough by Brian Kiteley
The Practice of Poetry by Robin Behn
Screenplay by Syd Field
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Forest for the Trees by Betsy Lerner
Daily Rituals by Mason Currey
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug
The Emotion Thesaurus by Becca Puglisi
Making Comics by Scott Mccloud
The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark
The Paris Review Interviews, I by The Paris Review the Paris Review
What the Living Do by Marie Howe
The Elements of Eloquence by Mark Forsyth
The 3 A.M. Epiphany by Brian Kiteley
Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon
CA$HVERTISING by Drew Eric Whitman
Take Off Your Pants! by Libbie Hawker
Word by Word by Kory Stamper
How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method by Randy Ingermanson
Breakthrough Advertising by Eugene M. Schwartz
Steering the Craft by Ursula K. le Guin
Letters to a Young Writer by Colum McCann
Why I Write by George Orwell
Hooked by Les Edgerton
The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman
How to Write Best Selling Fiction by Dean R. Koontz
How to Write a Damn Good Novel by James N. Frey
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
The Writing Life by Marie Arana
The Chicago Manual of Style by The University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff
Still Writing by Dani Shapiro
The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr
The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking by Edward B. Burger
Romancing the Beat by Gwen Hayes
The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler
If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland
Resonate by Nancy Duarte
Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy
Garner's Modern English Usage by Bryan Garner