Writing
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Lichtenbergianism: procrastination as a creative strategy
$19.99 Add to cartAre you a creative genius? No, only Mozart is a creative genius, and you are not him. But you are creative–yes, you are, admit it–and you want to overcome your fears and your bad habits so that you
- Author: Lyles, Dale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0692965963
- Language: English
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Crime Scenes
$9.99 Add to cartWant to create believable crime scenes and establish the facts that crack your case? Too many authors cut corners or ignore procedure when finding the evidence in their stories. This guide offers an a
- Series: Forensics for Fiction
- Author: Symon, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 194504313X
- Language: English
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The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers
$18.00 Read more“The Forest for the Trees should become a permanent part of any writer’s or editor’s personal library.“ –The Seattle Times
Quickly established as an essential and enduring companion for aspiring write- Author: Lerner, Betsy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 159448483X
- Language: English
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World-Building
$20.00 Add to cartThis book is designed to give science fiction writers the solid grounding they need in real science to make their fictions read like fact. World Building is a blueprint in words, calculations, tables … [more below]
- Series: Science Fiction Writing
- Author: Gillett, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 158297134X
- Language: English
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Writing Mysteries
$20.00 Add to cartHere’s your ticket to the greatest mystery-writing workshop ever!
In this extraordinary compilation, more than three dozen members of the Mystery Writers of America share insights and advice that can- Author: Grafton, Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 22 2002
- ISBN10: 1582971021
- Language: English
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The Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture from Npr’s Fresh Air
$16.99 Add to cartThis engaging collection of National Public Radio broadcasts and magazine pieces by one of America’s best-known linguists covers the waterfront of contemporary culture by taking stock of its words and
- Author: Nunberg, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0618116036
- Language: English
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Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartFor anyone who enjoys reading memoirs–or is thinking about writing one–this collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors, including Annie Dillard, Frank McCourt, and others.
The … [more below]
- Author: Baker, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 20 1998
- ISBN10: 0395901502
- Language: English
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Writing Alone and with Others
$23.99 Add to cartFor more than a quarter of a century, Pat Schneider has helped writers find and liberate their true voices. She has taught all kinds–the award winning, the struggling, and those who have been silence… [more below]
- Author: Schneider, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: August 28 2003
- ISBN10: 019516573X
- Language: English
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The Black Automaton
$17.00 Read more“Douglas Kearney’s innovative new collection makes me tremble like a ‘mouth and mind full of fish hooks.’ . . . These poems literally vibrate with Kearney’s precocious intellect and passion. They hum,
- Series: National Poetry Series Books (Paperback)
- Author: Kearney, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 95
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 193420028X
- Language: English
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Every Day I Write the Book: Notes on Style
$25.95 Add to cartAmitava Kumar’s Every Day I Write the Book is for academic writers what Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life and Stephen King’s On Writing are for creative writers. Alongside Kumar’s interviews with an ar… [more below]
- Author: Kumar, Amitava
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 27 2020
- ISBN10: 1478006277
- Language: English
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The Writing Teacher’s Companion: Embracing Choice, Voice, Purpose & Play
$41.99 Add to cartCelebrated author and educator Ralph Fletcher provides a practical and illuminating guide to writing workshop for both new and veteran teachers that details the best ways to get started, the component… [more below]
- Author: Fletcher, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1338148044
- Language: English
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Writing in Small Groups: The 4color Way
$7.99 Add to cartWriting in Small Groups the 4color Way lays out how to build a Cooperative Inquiry group to create a super support group of writers. Conceived by pioneers in the field of participatory research, Coope
- Author: Gillam, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: July 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0985883871
- Language: English
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Henry Miller on Writing
$16.95 Add to cart“A brilliant selection . . . it is in short a voyage of discovery, an adventure and this the log of that voyage in the life of a probing and powerful writer.” –Robert R. Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
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- Series: New Directions Paperbook #151
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 217
- Publish Date: January 17 1964
- ISBN10: 0811201120
- Language: English
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Writing Without Teachers
$19.98 Add to cartIn Writing Without Teachers, well-known advocate of innovative teaching methods Peter Elbow outlines a practical program for learning how to write. His approach is especially helpful to people who get… [more below]
- Author: Elbow, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 25 1998
- ISBN10: 0195120167
- Language: English
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Simple & Direct
$15.99 Add to cartA fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve one’s style. His discussions of diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revisi
- Author: Barzun, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 18 2001
- ISBN10: 60937238
- Language: English
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The Silence of Your Name: The Afterlife of a Suicide
$24.00 Add to cartThe Silence Of Your Name revolves around the suicide of Marshall’s charismatic and idealistic young husband, Tim Buxton, while they were in Ghana with Operation Crossroads Africa – a progenitor of the
- Author: Marshall, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1734641681
- Language: English
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Better Than Gin: A Coloring Book for Writers
$14.99 Add to cartFlesh out your characters, structure your plot, build a cinematic setting and more, all with guided sketching, coloring, and narrative exercises designed to soothe, guide, and inspire. No exceptional
- Series: Writer’s Coloring Book #1
- Author: Lourey, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1948584018
- Language: English
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Autopsies
$10.99 Add to cartWant to add an autopsy that won’t kill your story? Death swings its scythe in every genre, from family funerals to crime scenes to creatures that won’t stay buried. This user-friendly, illustrated ref
- Series: Forensics for Fiction
- Author: Symon, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1945043156
- Language: English
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It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer’s Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences
$15.00 Add to cartIn this wickedly humorous manual, language columnist June Casagrande uses grammar and syntax to show exactly what makes some sentences great–and other sentences suck.
Great writing isn’t born, it’s b- Author: Casagrande, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 27 2010
- ISBN10: 158008740X
- Language: English
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Blueprint for a Nonfiction Book
$18.99 Add to cartTop book coach Jennie Nash teaches you how to define a winning idea, pin it to the page, and pitch it to the people who can bring your book to life.
“Jennie Nash may just be the best nonfiction book co
- Author: Nash, Jennie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1733251146
- Language: English
