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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as craft)
avg rating 4.34 — 320,012 ratings — published 2000
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as craft)
avg rating 4.24 — 111,702 ratings — published 1994
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as craft)
avg rating 4.49 — 13,824 ratings — published 2018
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as craft)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,092 ratings — published 1998
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as craft)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,424 ratings — published 2021
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as craft)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,258 ratings — published 2019
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as craft)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,330 ratings — published 1918
Stitch 'n Bitch: The Knitter's Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as craft)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,422 ratings — published 2000
Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
by (shelved 69 times as craft)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,500 ratings — published 2016
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as craft)
avg rating 4.21 — 31,914 ratings — published 1986
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as craft)
avg rating 4.53 — 25,403 ratings — published 2021
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as craft)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,253 ratings — published 2007
The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as craft)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,019 ratings — published 2016
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as craft)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,316 ratings — published 1984
Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as craft)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,140 ratings — published 2022
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as craft)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,129 ratings — published 1993
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as craft)
avg rating 3.77 — 11,891 ratings — published 2006
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as craft)
avg rating 3.97 — 119,513 ratings — published 2002
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as craft)
avg rating 3.96 — 235,734 ratings — published 2015
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as craft)
avg rating 3.96 — 120,795 ratings — published 2002
The Writing Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as craft)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,401 ratings — published 1989
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as craft)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,613 ratings — published 1997
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as craft)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,067 ratings — published 2005
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as craft)
avg rating 4.08 — 21,475 ratings — published 1973
Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as craft)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,981 ratings — published 1987
Stitch 'n Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as craft)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,673 ratings — published 2006
Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as craft)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,582 ratings — published 2012
The Art of Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as craft)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,425 ratings — published 2015
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as craft)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,250 ratings — published 2022
Romancing the Beat: Story Structure for Romance Novels (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as craft)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,381 ratings — published 2016
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as craft)
avg rating 4.24 — 31,011 ratings — published 1976
Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as craft)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,241 ratings — published 2013
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as craft)
avg rating 3.96 — 339,326 ratings — published 2012
Knitting Rules!: The Yarn Harlot Unravels the Mysteries of Swatching, Stashing, Ribbing & Rolling to Free Your Inner Knitter (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as craft)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,919 ratings — published 2006
A Poetry Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as craft)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,553 ratings — published 1994
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as craft)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,880 ratings — published 2001
Mending Matters: Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your Favorite Denim & More (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as craft)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,309 ratings — published 2018
Last-Minute Knitted Gifts (Last Minute Gifts)
by (shelved 35 times as craft)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,639 ratings — published 2004
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as craft)
avg rating 3.95 — 86,784 ratings — published 2023
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as craft)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,421 ratings — published 1992
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression, Second Edition (Writers Helping Writers Series Book 1)
by (shelved 33 times as craft)
avg rating 4.53 — 6,367 ratings — published 2012
Doodle Stitching: Fresh & Fun Embroidery for Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as craft)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,087 ratings — published 2007
Knitting Without Tears: Basic Techniques and Easy-to-Follow Directions for Garments to Fit All Sizes (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as craft)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,549 ratings — published 1970
Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as craft)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,985 ratings — published 2004
Handmade Home: Simple Ways to Repurpose Old Materials into New Family Treasures (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as craft)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,430 ratings — published 2009
Outlining Your Novel (Helping Writers Become Authors, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as craft)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,869 ratings — published 2011
Creepy Cute Crochet: Zombies, Ninjas, Robots, and More! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as craft)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,255 ratings — published 2008
Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as craft)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,413 ratings — published
Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as craft)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,673 ratings — published 2016
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as craft)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,905 ratings — published 2006
“I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.”
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“Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis. Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students; he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to, or change it. The young Blackadder wrote poems, imagined Dr Leavis’s comments on them, and burned them.”
― Possession
― Possession
