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Writing Books
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7549 times as writing)
avg rating 4.34 — 319,874 ratings — published 2000
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 5603 times as writing)
avg rating 4.24 — 111,643 ratings — published 1994
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4498 times as writing)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,319 ratings — published 1918
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3414 times as writing)
avg rating 4.23 — 31,004 ratings — published 1976
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Paperback)
by (shelved 2727 times as writing)
avg rating 4.21 — 31,908 ratings — published 1986
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2121 times as writing)
avg rating 4.08 — 21,470 ratings — published 1973
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1523 times as writing)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,604 ratings — published 1997
The Writing Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1429 times as writing)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,392 ratings — published 1989
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 1416 times as writing)
avg rating 3.97 — 119,447 ratings — published 2002
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 1384 times as writing)
avg rating 3.77 — 11,888 ratings — published 2006
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1374 times as writing)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,903 ratings — published 2006
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 1371 times as writing)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,053 ratings — published 2005
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1333 times as writing)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,525 ratings — published 2003
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print (Paperback)
by (shelved 1332 times as writing)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,128 ratings — published 1993
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 1314 times as writing)
avg rating 3.96 — 120,756 ratings — published 2002
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1300 times as writing)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,250 ratings — published 2007
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1283 times as writing)
avg rating 4.49 — 13,816 ratings — published 2018
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew (Paperback)
by (shelved 1230 times as writing)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,089 ratings — published 1998
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1200 times as writing)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,416 ratings — published 1992
Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish (Paperback)
by (shelved 1164 times as writing)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,984 ratings — published 2004
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1120 times as writing)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,251 ratings — published 2014
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression, Second Edition (Writers Helping Writers Series Book 1)
by (shelved 1095 times as writing)
avg rating 4.53 — 6,366 ratings — published 2012
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 1047 times as writing)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,496 ratings — published 2016
Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence (Paperback)
by (shelved 992 times as writing)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,578 ratings — published 2012
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 932 times as writing)
avg rating 3.96 — 235,639 ratings — published 2015
No Plot? No Problem! (Paperback)
by (shelved 922 times as writing)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,305 ratings — published 2004
Stein on Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 872 times as writing)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,810 ratings — published 1995
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 839 times as writing)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,314 ratings — published 1984
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 826 times as writing)
avg rating 4.54 — 25,362 ratings — published 2021
If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 812 times as writing)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,681 ratings — published 2012
Outlining Your Novel (Helping Writers Become Authors, #1)
by (shelved 791 times as writing)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,868 ratings — published 2011
Characters & Viewpoint (Paperback)
by (shelved 752 times as writing)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,720 ratings — published 1988
Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 741 times as writing)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,674 ratings — published 2016
Becoming a Writer (Paperback)
by (shelved 690 times as writing)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,305 ratings — published 1934
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 682 times as writing)
avg rating 3.96 — 339,330 ratings — published 2012
Writing the Breakout Novel: Insider Advice for Taking Your Fiction to the Next Level (Paperback)
by (shelved 672 times as writing)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,086 ratings — published 2001
Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 667 times as writing)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,238 ratings — published 2013
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 661 times as writing)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,289 ratings — published 1949
Story Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 658 times as writing)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,310 ratings — published 2011
The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface (Paperback)
by (shelved 650 times as writing)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,014 ratings — published 2016
The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation Into the Writing Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 643 times as writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,420 ratings — published 1998
On Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 638 times as writing)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,837 ratings — published 1984
How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy (Paperback)
by (shelved 637 times as writing)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,887 ratings — published 1990
Structuring Your Novel: Essential Keys for Writing an Outstanding Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 620 times as writing)
avg rating 4.32 — 3,482 ratings — published 2013
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 603 times as writing)
avg rating 4.27 — 124,344 ratings — published 1929
Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 603 times as writing)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,567 ratings — published 1990
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process (Hardcover)
by (shelved 584 times as writing)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,334 ratings — published 2013
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 574 times as writing)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,410 ratings — published 2019
Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (Paperback)
by (shelved 571 times as writing)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,977 ratings — published 1987
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 568 times as writing)
avg rating 4.22 — 264,409 ratings — published 1929
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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