If you write, you know what it's like. Insight and creativity - the desire to push the boundaries of your writing - strike when you least expect it. And you'r…
"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. …
"Doctors don't imitate Galen. Why should writers follow Aristotle? Jane Alison in her fresh, original book about narrative is our new Aristotle." ―Edmund White, author of The Unpunished Vice: A Life o…
Shelve Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
They say writing is rewriting. So why does the second part get such short shrift? Refuse To Be Done will guide you through every step of the novel writing process, from getting started on those first …
Shelve Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown is an essay by Virginia Woolf published in 1924 which explores modernity. It includes the famous observation by Woolf that "on or about December 1910 human character changed…
Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's story details a New Year's Eve gathering in Dublin that is so evocative and beautiful that it prompts the protagonist's wife to make…
For 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 …
Shelve Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Set in Naples, Italy, this debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Elena Ferrante (My Brilliant Friend, The Days of Abandonment) tells a story about mothers and daughters and the complicated …
As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then they meet a…
Una mujer le explica al doctor que su marido se ha partido el cráneo con un hacha al caerse de la cama. Un chico revisa su buzón dos veces al día esperando una carta de los padres que le abandonaron a…
Shelve Da igual: Los veinticinco cuentos despiadados de Agota Kristof
This all-new definitive guide to writing imaginative fiction takes a completely novel approach and fully exploits the visual nature of fantasy through original drawings, maps, renderings, and exercise…
Shelve Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima enters his life. She is a curandera, one who heals with herbs and magic. 'We cannot let her live her last days in loneliness,' says Antonio's mother. 'It is …
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 Gar…
Shelve The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
In this new audio version, Richard Schwartz, the developer of the Internal Family Systems Model, applies the IFS Model to the topic of intimate relationships in an engaging, understandable, and person…
Shelve You Are The One You've Been Waiting For: Bringing Courageous Love To Intimate Relationships
Lucia Berlin teve uma vida repleta de eventos e reviravoltas. Aos 32 anos, já havia vivido em diversas cidades e países, passado por três casamentos e trabalhado como professora, telefonista, faxineir…
Shelve A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
Most of what you think you know about writing is useless. It’s the harmful debris of your education—a mixture of half-truths, myths, and false assumptions that prevents you from writing well. Drawing …
Sue Monk Kidd's phenomenal debut, The Secret Life of Bees, became a runaway bestseller that is still on the New York Times bestseller list more than two years af…
This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. Throughout, the emphasis is on promoting a plain English style. This little book can help you communicate more effectively by sho…
SAVE THE CAT!® by Blake Snyder is a popular screenwriting book series and storytelling methodology used by screenwriters, directors, and studio execs across Hollywood. Now, for the first time ever, be…
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that…
Shelve A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a land mine. The land mine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces back together. Now, it's your turn. Jump!"
Zest. Gusto…
Shelve Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
The most widely used and respected text in its field, Writing Fiction, 7e by novelists Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French guides the novice story writer from first inspiration to final revisi…
Shelve Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft
On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime war, Danny Ryan is now on the run. The Mafia, the cops, the FBI all want him dead or in prison. With his littl…
Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she is heading with inexorable det…
