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Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
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Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel
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Jessica Brody (Goodreads Author)
4.63 avg rating — 578 ratings
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How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back
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Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
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120 Writing Prompts For The Aspiring YA Author Volume One Summer Days (Live a Year in the Life of a YA Book 1)
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Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write
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Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
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120 Writing Prompts for the Aspiring YA Author: Volume Four Spring With Feeling (Live a Year in the Life of a YA Book 4)
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The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life
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4.33 avg rating — 1,575 ratings
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Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
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Matthew Salesses (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 2,386 ratings
score: 97,
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Improv for Writers: 10 Secrets to Help Novelists and Screenwriters Bypass Writer's Block and Generate Infinite Ideas
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Jorjeana Marie (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 94 ratings
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What Nails It
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4.10 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms
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4.14 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Spilling Ink: A Young Writer's Handbook
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4.32 avg rating — 1,404 ratings
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Expressive Writing: Words That Heal
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3.88 avg rating — 306 ratings
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Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction
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4.08 avg rating — 1,283 ratings
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Writer to Writer: From Think to Ink
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Gail Carson Levine (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 753 ratings
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Web Writing: Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning
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Jack Dougherty (Editor)
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Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto
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Sonya Huber (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 40 ratings
score: 94,
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Dear Ally, How Do You Write a Book?
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Ally Carter (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 703 ratings
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The Meaningful Writing Project: Learning, Teaching and Writing in Higher Education
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4.11 avg rating — 47 ratings
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A Book of Surrealist Games
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Alastair Brotchie (Editor)
4.08 avg rating — 669 ratings
score: 93,
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Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities
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John Warner (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 839 ratings
score: 93,
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How Fiction Works
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3.99 avg rating — 8,104 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 315,522 ratings
score: 92,
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Writing Begins with the Breath: Embodying Your Authentic Voice
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Laraine Herring (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 371 ratings
score: 91,
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
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4.18 avg rating — 10,637 ratings
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How to Read Literature
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3.69 avg rating — 2,619 ratings
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Writing
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3.65 avg rating — 4,047 ratings
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Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
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4.23 avg rating — 5,958 ratings
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Women at Work: Interviews from The Paris Review
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The Paris Review (Editor)
4.37 avg rating — 267 ratings
score: 86,
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The Paris Review Interviews, Vols. 1-4
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4.66 avg rating — 68 ratings
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