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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 315,165 ratings — published 2000
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 7,145 ratings — published 2007
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 21,536 ratings — published 2005
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 17,374 ratings — published 1997
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 10,345 ratings — published 1992
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 110,049 ratings — published 1994
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression, Second Edition (Writers Helping Writers Series Book 1)
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avg rating 4.53 — 6,317 ratings — published 2012
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 30,617 ratings — published 1976
Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,351 ratings — published 1999
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 86,760 ratings — published 1918
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 5,951 ratings — published 1998
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 21,226 ratings — published 1973
The Rural Setting Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Personal and Natural Places (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.67 — 651 ratings — published 2016
The Urban Setting Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to City Spaces (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.63 — 616 ratings — published
The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,939 ratings — published 2015
The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 644 ratings — published 2012
The Science of Storytelling (ebook)
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avg rating 4.05 — 7,893 ratings — published 2019
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 7,068 ratings — published 1993
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 11,779 ratings — published 2006
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.49 — 13,339 ratings — published 2018
Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 4,427 ratings — published 2013
Letters to a Young Novelist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 4,013 ratings — published 1997
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 31,657 ratings — published 1986
Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 5,972 ratings — published 2004
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 44,725 ratings — published 1949
The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 3,266 ratings — published 1942
Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide from New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 2,217 ratings — published 2003
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 163,007 ratings — published 1916
A Moveable Feast (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 165,597 ratings — published 1964
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 2,385 ratings — published 1994
Poetics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 29,163 ratings — published -335
The War of Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 116,879 ratings — published 2002
Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 933 ratings — published 2004
The Writing Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 18,204 ratings — published 1989
Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 3,918 ratings — published 1987
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 6,264 ratings — published 1975
On Writing and Worldbuilding, Volume I (ebook)
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avg rating 4.24 — 1,603 ratings — published 2019
Fantasy's Othering Fetish (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as writing-theory)
avg rating 4.40 — 188 ratings — published 2016
The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,081 ratings — published 2007
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 9,200 ratings — published 2011
2000 Most Challenging and Obscure Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 32 ratings — published 2000
The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 482 ratings — published
The Best Writing on Writing - Volume 2 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 7 ratings — published 1995
New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors: The Essential A-Z Guide to the Written Word (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 90 ratings — published 1905
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.05 — 4,384 ratings — published 2019
Between the Lines: Master the Subtle Elements of Fiction Writing (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 313 ratings — published 2006
Several Short Sentences About Writing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 3,445 ratings — published 2012
The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 2,919 ratings — published 2016
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 2,130 ratings — published 2001
Stein on Writing (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 4,771 ratings — published 1995
