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Fiction Writer’s Workshop
In this comprehensive guide, award-winning writer and teacher Josip Novakovich, explores every aspect of the art of fiction and provides all the tools and techniques you'll need to develop day-to-day discipline as well as a personal writing style. Available on Kindle
The Writing Life
In this collection of short essays, Annie Dillardthe author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and An American Childhoodilluminates the dedication, absurdity, and daring that characterize the existence of a writer. A moving account of Dillards own experience, The Writing Life offers deep insight into one of the most mysterious professions. Available on Kindle.
Writing Without Teachers
Peter Elbow outlines a practical program for learning how to write. The core of Elbow's thinking is a challenge against traditional writing methods. Available on Kindle
Sleeping on the Wing: An Anthology of Modern Poetry with Essays on Reading and Writing
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Writing Down the Bones
With insight, humor, and practicality, Natalie Goldberg inspires writers and would-be writers to take the leap into writing skillfully and creatively. She offers suggestions, encouragement, and solid advice on many aspects of the writer's craft. Available on Kindle
Wild Mind: Living the Writing Life
Natalie Goldberg teaches a method of writing that can take you beyond craft to the true source of creative power: The mind that is "raw, full of energy, alive and hungry." Available on Kindle
Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft
Drawing on her own experience as a writer and a student of Zen, Natalie shows you how to create a field big enough to allow your wild mind to wander and then gently direct its tremendous energy into whatever you want to write. Available on Kindle
Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words
Her exuberant, critically acclaimed teaching guide takes instructors, writers, and general readers into the very heart and intensity of life and the craft of expressing what one feels through the written word. Available on Kindle
On Writing: A Memoir on the Craft
Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen Kings critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work. Available on Kindle
White Gloves: How we create ourselves through memory
This work explains why some memories can only be recalled in certain physiological states; why seemingly unimportant, small moments lurk in our memory for years for no apparent reason; and why some people have total recall of all that they read and see.
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Anne Lamott will help you find your passion and your voice, beginning from the first really crummy draft to the peculiar letdown of publication. Available on Kindle and Audible (audiobook); Bestseller
The Forest for the Trees
Betsy Lerner's sharp, funny, and insightful guide has been meticulously updated and revised to address the dramatic changes that have reshaped the publishing industry in the decade since. Available on Kindle
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing's best-known and most influential novel, The Golden Notebook retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.
Deep Writing: 7 Principles That Bring Ideas to Life
A nationally recognized psychotherapist and creativity consultant shows writers how to overcome psychological blocks in order to create with passion, power, and ease.
Descriptionary: A thematic dictionary
A dictionary of generic terms or ``buzz words'' of over 20 categories that include the environment, animals, the human body and mind, performing arts and broadcasting, sports, the law, medicine, finance, the military, language, food and drink, and electronics. The book is both fun and useful. Available on Kindle; Part of the Facts on File Writer's Library.
Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft
Interviews with 11 poets. The interviews reveal the passion and focus the poets bring to their writing and how they transmute mundane occurrences into vital, meaningful life experiences. Includes the poets' poems.
A Writer Teaches Writing
A landmark text on the teaching of writing, Donald M. Murray's A WRITER TEACHES WRITING has had a profound influence on composition theory and practice.
Write to Learn
WRITE TO LEARN establishes a framework for students to create original and compelling writing. Donald Murray, with his famous clear and succinct writing style, moves the beginning student writer from an initial idea all the way to a final draft.
Elements of the Writing Craft
Through more than 150 lessons, Olmstead show s how noted writers have ''built'' their fiction and non-ficti on through a multitude of small but significant moves, and o ffers a writer''s-eye analysis of a short passage of each wri ter''s work.