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Plotting Books
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Save the Cat! Writes a Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.49 — 14,046 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 4.18 — 6,586 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 — 5,989 ratings — published 2004
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
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avg rating 4.56 — 784,259 ratings — published 2016
The False Prince (Ascendance, #1)
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avg rating 4.24 — 111,391 ratings — published 2012
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 441,494 ratings — published 1603
Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 131,472 ratings — published 2022
Inferior : Triloka Part II (Triloka Series Book 2)
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avg rating 4.69 — 157 ratings — published
The Fine Art of Faking It (Blue Moon, #6)
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avg rating 4.20 — 23,537 ratings — published 2018
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)
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avg rating 3.64 — 54,472 ratings — published 2021
Vicious (Villains, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 330,883 ratings — published 2013
Shattering Glass (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 5,067 ratings — published 2002
The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
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avg rating 4.04 — 187,021 ratings — published 2015
The Secret History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,064,787 ratings — published 1992
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 49,543 ratings — published 1939
Catch-22 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 893,557 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 — 10,054,179 ratings — published 2008
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 50,673 ratings — published 2024
On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 555 ratings — published
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 18,053 ratings — published 2024
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 7,307 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 — 117 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 4.50 — 16 ratings — published
Silver Shadows (Bloodlines, #5)
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avg rating 4.34 — 64,685 ratings — published 2014
Spirit Bound (Vampire Academy, #5)
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avg rating 4.32 — 308,669 ratings — published 2010
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 31,175 ratings — published 1976
Memories of You: A Forbidden Love Regency Romance (Cooper Siblings Scandals Book 1)
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avg rating 4.67 — 27 ratings — published
Five Broken Blades (The Broken Blades, #1)
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avg rating 3.82 — 46,242 ratings — published 2024
Demon in White (The Sun Eater, #3)
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avg rating 4.62 — 23,136 ratings — published 2020
The Tethered Mage (Swords and Fire, #1)
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avg rating 3.80 — 7,317 ratings — published 2017
The Daemon Prism (Collegia Magica, #3)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,118 ratings — published 2012
Ashes of Man (The Sun Eater, #5)
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avg rating 4.48 — 16,468 ratings — published 2022
Some Desperate Glory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 20,403 ratings — published 2023
A Shadow in Summer (Long Price Quartet, #1)
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avg rating 3.64 — 13,730 ratings — published 2006
Peerless: Wu Shuang (Novel) Vol. 3
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avg rating 4.56 — 1,028 ratings — published
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,848,614 ratings — published 2013
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,866,956 ratings — published 2003
Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.64 — 207 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 4.50 — 6 ratings — published
Court of Dragons (Dragon Isle Wars, #1)
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avg rating 3.78 — 5,434 ratings — published 2021
Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 655 ratings — published 2023
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 208,060 ratings — published 2022
“There is nothing more dangerous than an insidious enemy, but there is nothing more poisonous than a feigned friend.”
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“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
