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Save the Cat! Writes a Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.49 — 13,722 ratings — published 2018
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)
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avg rating 4.19 — 6,469 ratings — published 2016
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 — 5,985 ratings — published 2004
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
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avg rating 4.57 — 772,668 ratings — published 2016
The False Prince (Ascendance, #1)
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avg rating 4.24 — 110,073 ratings — published 2012
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 437,792 ratings — published 1603
The Secret History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,036,715 ratings — published 1992
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 48,909 ratings — published 1939
Catch-22 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 888,333 ratings — published 1961
Story Skeleton: The Classics (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.59 — 22 ratings — published
Secrets to Outlining A Novel: The Creative Story Outlining Method (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.73 — 22 ratings — published
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 9,947,695 ratings — published 2008
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 47,129 ratings — published 2024
On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 528 ratings — published
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 16,771 ratings — published 2024
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 7,234 ratings — published 2007
The Conscious Style Guide: A Flexible Approach to Language That Includes, Respects, and Empowers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 114 ratings — published 2024
Writing Successful Self-Help and How-To Books (Wiley Books for Writers)
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avg rating 3.90 — 59 ratings — published 1997
Fast Fiction: A Guide to Outlining and Writing a First-Draft Novel in Thirty Days (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 170 ratings — published 2014
The Universal Fantasy Workbook: Use Universal Fantasy to Plot and Write a Book That's Ready to Market and Sell to Anyone (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.47 — 15 ratings — published
Silver Shadows (Bloodlines, #5)
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avg rating 4.34 — 64,422 ratings — published 2014
Spirit Bound (Vampire Academy, #5)
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avg rating 4.32 — 307,807 ratings — published 2010
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 30,925 ratings — published 1976
Memories of You: A Forbidden Love Regency Romance (Cooper Siblings Scandals Book 1)
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avg rating 4.65 — 26 ratings — published
Five Broken Blades (The Broken Blades, #1)
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avg rating 3.82 — 44,515 ratings — published 2024
Demon in White (The Sun Eater, #3)
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avg rating 4.63 — 20,361 ratings — published 2020
The Tethered Mage (Swords and Fire, #1)
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avg rating 3.80 — 7,277 ratings — published 2017
The Daemon Prism (Collegia Magica, #3)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,115 ratings — published 2012
Ashes of Man (The Sun Eater, #5)
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avg rating 4.48 — 14,255 ratings — published 2022
Some Desperate Glory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 19,431 ratings — published 2023
A Shadow in Summer (Long Price Quartet, #1)
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avg rating 3.64 — 13,632 ratings — published 2006
Peerless: Wu Shuang (Novel) Vol. 3
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avg rating 4.55 — 883 ratings — published
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,775,970 ratings — published 2013
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,859,705 ratings — published 2003
Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.64 — 206 ratings — published 1928
The Only Plotting Workbook You'll Ever Need: Your Story Arc Journal (Series Bibles for Writers)
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avg rating 4.67 — 6 ratings — published
Court of Dragons (Dragon Isle Wars, #1)
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avg rating 3.79 — 5,397 ratings — published 2021
Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.63 — 620 ratings — published 2023
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 201,979 ratings — published 2022
The Assassin's Blade (Throne of Glass, #0.1-0.5)
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avg rating 4.20 — 1,185,195 ratings — published 2014
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,436,353 ratings — published 1985
Queen of Thieves (Queen of Thieves #1)
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avg rating 3.48 — 10,961 ratings — published 2023
Take Off Your Pants! Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing (ebook)
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avg rating 4.25 — 3,282 ratings — published 2015
The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)
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avg rating 4.33 — 971,587 ratings — published 2019
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,078,537 ratings — published 2019
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 4,239,573 ratings — published 2015
How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method (ebook)
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avg rating 4.24 — 2,870 ratings — published 2014
“If through no fault of his own the hero is crushed by a bulldozer in Act II, we are not impressed. Even though life is often like this—the absconding cashier on his way to Nicaragua is killed in a collision at the airport, the prominent statesman dies of a stroke in the midst of the negotiations he has spent years to bring about, the young lovers are drowned in a boating accident the day before their marriage—such events, the warp and woof of everyday life, seem irrelevant, meaningless. They are crude, undigested, unpurged bits of reality—to draw a metaphor from the late J. Edgar Hoover, they are “raw files.” But it is the function of great art to purge and give meaning to human suffering, and so we expect that if the hero is indeed crushed by a bulldozer in Act II there will be some reason for it, and not just some reason but a good one, one which makes sense in terms of the hero’s personality and action. In fact, we expect to be shown that he is in some way responsible for what happens to him.”
― The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
― The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
“The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn’t true of my life, though I’ve experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.”
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