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• On Writing

  A Memoir Of The Craft

  King, Stephen

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  Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have.

• This Year You Write Your Novel

  Mosley, Walter

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  Mosley shares professional tips on how to write a novel, counseling aspiring writers on how to create and adhere to a daily writing schedule, determine a personal narrative voice, and work through the challenging initial stages.

• Writing Tools

  50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

  Clark, Roy Peter

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  Covers everything from the most basic to the more complex and provides more than 200 examples from literature and journalism to illustrate the concepts.

• Writing Great Fiction

  Storytelling Tips and Techniques

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  The Great Courses! Taught by award-winning novelist James Hynes, a former visiting professor at the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop, these 24 insightful lectures show you the ins and outs of the fiction writer's craft.

• Writing the Blockbuster Novel

  Zuckerman, Albert

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  Covers the essential elements of the blockbuster novel and shows writers how to put them to work in their books, from creating outlines and building larger than life characters to injecting suspense and more.

• On Writing Well Audio Collection

  On Writing Well and How to Write a Memoir

  Zinsser, William

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  Part I: Whether you want to write about people and places, science and technology, business, sports or the arts, this is the definitive guide to the craft of nonfiction. Part II: On memoir, personal history and family history—tells you in helpful…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dreyer's English

  An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

  Dreyer, Benjamin

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  Dreyer, Random House's long-time Copy Chief, distills everything he has learned from the hundreds of books he has copy edited, including works by Elizabeth Strout, E. L. Doctorow, and Frank Rich, into a useful guide not just for writers but for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• First You Write a Sentence

  The Elements of Reading, Writing . . . and Life

  Moran, Joe

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  An unpedantic but authoritative explanation of how the most ordinary words can be turned into verbal constellations of extraordinary grace. Using sources ranging from the Bible and Shakespeare to George Orwell and Maggie Nelson, and scientific…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sense of Style

  The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

  Pinker, Steven

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  Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy, coherence, grammatical knowhow, and an ability to savor and reverse engineer the good prose of others. He replaces dogma about usage with reason and evidence, allowing writers and editors to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bird by Bird

  Some Instructions on Writing and Life

  Lamott, Anne

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  A step-by-step guide on how to write and on how to manage the writer's life. From "Getting Started,' with "Short Assignments," through "Shitty First Drafts," "Character," "Plot," "Dialogue." all the way from "False Starts" to "How Do You Know When…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hungry Heart

  Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing

  Weiner, Jennifer,

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  Jennifer grew up as an outsider in her picturesque Connecticut hometown (“a Lane Bryant outtake in an Abercrombie & Fitch photo shoot”) and at her Ivy League college, but finally found her people in newsrooms in central Pennsylvania and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How I Write

  Secrets of a Bestselling Author

  Evanovich, Janet • Yalof, Ina

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  Details the elements of writing and publishing a novel, and addresses all categories of fiction--from mystery/thriller/action titles to romance; from stand-alone narratives to series. It offers practical and inspiring advice on such subjects as…Read moreRead more of this annotation