A Novel in a Year
8 best books like A Novel in a Year (Louise Doughty): Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers, No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days, Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf: With a Fully-Orchestrated and Narrated CD, Belonging, The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression, Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story, Kinsey and Me: Stories
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
| Author | Natalie Goldberg |
| ISBN | 1590303164 |
For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice--"it...
The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers
| Author | Harry Bernstein |
| ISBN | 0345495802 |
There are places that I have never forgotten. A little cobbled street in a smoky mill town in the North of England has haunted me for the greater part of my life. It was inevitable that I should write about it and the people who lived on both sides of its "Invisible Wall."
The narrow street where Harry...
No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days
| Author | Chris Baty |
| ISBN | 0811845052 |
You've always wanted to write, but . . . just haven't gotten around to it. No Plot? No Problem! is the kick in the pants you've been waiting for.
Let Chris Baty, founder of the rockin' literary marathon National Novel Writing Month (a.k.a. NaNoWriMo), guide you through four exciting weeks of...
| Author | Sergei Prokofiev |
| ISBN | 0375824308 |
Written in 1936, Sergei Prokofiev's symphonic fairy tale for narrator and orchestra has enchanted generations of children. This inviting picture book introduces a new generation of youngsters to the exciting story of the hungry wolf, the ill-fated duck, the fortunate cat, the fearless little bird,...
| Author | Jeannie Baker |
| ISBN | 0744592275 |
What a lovely idea for a book. We see a windowsill and the view of a city street. On the windowsill stands a congratulation card for the birth of a baby girl. From that small viewpoint of this families house we see the changing view outside and the odd addition to the wall or windowsill that gives us clues what's...
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression
The bestselling Emotion Thesaurus, often hailed as “the gold standard for writers” and credited with transforming how writers craft emotion, has now been expanded to include 55 new entries!One of the biggest struggles for writers is how to convey emotion to readers in a unique and compelling...
Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story
| Author | John Yorke |
| ISBN | 1846146437 |
Into The Woods is a revelation of the fundamental structure and meaning of all stories, from the man responsible for more hours of drama on British television than anyone else, John Yorke.
We all love stories. Many of us love to tell them, and even dream of making a living from it too. But what is a story?...
| Author | Sue Grafton |
| ISBN | 0399163832 |
A collection of stories that reveal Kinsey's origins--and Grafton's past. The nine stories that open the book show how fully formed Kinsey was from the beginning. The thirteen stories in the second part, written in the decade following her mother's death, feature Kit Blue, a younger version of Grafton...
