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Chapter After Chapter: Discover the Dedication & Focus You Need to Write the Book of Your Dreams

10 best books like Chapter After Chapter: Discover the Dedication & Focus You Need to Write the Book of Your Dreams (Heather Sellers): Marie Antoinette: The Journey, White Rose, Damsel, Long Walk To Freedom, No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days, Beginnings, Middles & Ends, How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide, Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life, Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers, Help! For Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces

Marie Antoinette: The Journey
AuthorAntonia Fraser
ISBN0307277747
Brilliantly written, a work of impeccable scholarship. An utterly riveting and intensely moving book by one of our finest biographers.

Never before has the life of Marie Antoinette been told so intimately and with such authority as in Antonia Fraser's newest work, Marie Antoinette: The...
White Rose
AuthorKip Wilson
A gorgeous and timely novel based on the incredible story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college student who challenged the Nazi regime during World War II as part of The White Rose, a non-violent resistance group.

Disillusioned by the propaganda of Nazi Germany, Sophie Scholl, her brother,...
Damsel
AuthorElana K. Arnold
ISBN0062742345
The rite has existed for as long as anyone can remember: when the prince-who-will-be-king comes of age, he must venture out into the gray lands, slay a fierce dragon, and rescue a damsel to be his bride. This is the way things have always been.

When Ama wakes in the arms of Prince Emory, however,...
Long Walk To Freedom
AuthorNelson Mandela
ISBN0349116024
From his birth in a village on the banks of the Mbashe River in the Transkei to his politicisation and development as a freedom fighter, this first volume of Nelson Mandela's classic autobiography charts the early years of his life, which culminated in his prison sentence in 1962. Emotive, compelling...
No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days
AuthorChris Baty
ISBN0811845052
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...
Beginnings, Middles & Ends
AuthorNancy Kress
Get your stories off to a roaring start. Keep them tight and crisp throughout. Conclude them with a wallop.

Is the story or novel you've been carrying around in your head the same one you see on the page? Or does the dialogue suddenly sound flat and predictable? Do the events seem to ramble?

Translating...
How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
AuthorHoward Mittelmark
ISBN0061357952
Many writing books offer sound advice on how to write well. This is not one of those books. On the contrary, this is a collection of terrible, awkward, and laughably unreadable excerpts that will teach you what to avoid—at all costs—if you ever want your novel published.

In How Not to Write...
Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life
AuthorTerry Brooks
ISBN0345465512
In Sometimes the Magic Works, New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks shares his secrets for creating unusual, memorable fiction. Spanning topics from the importance of daydreaming to the necessity of writing an outline, from the fine art of showing instead of merely telling to creating believable...
Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers
AuthorCarolyn See
ISBN0345440463
As Carolyn See says, writing guides are like preachers on Sunday?there may be a lot of them, but you can't have too many, and there's always an audience of the faithful. And while Making a Literary Life is ostensibly a book that teaches you how to write, it really teaches you how to make your interior life...
Help! For Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces
AuthorRoy Peter Clark
ISBN0316126713
The craft of writing offers countless potential problems: The story is too long; the story's too short; revising presents a huge hurdle; writer's block is rearing its ugly head.

In HELP! FOR WRITERS, Roy Peter Clark presents an "owner's manual" for writers, outlining the seven steps of the...
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
AuthorAustin Kleon
ISBN1523506644
Keep Working. Keep Playing. Keep Creating.

In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativity and showed them how to become known. Now he offers his most inspiring work yet, with ten simple...
Girl of the Southern Sea
AuthorMichelle Kadarusman
ISBN1772780812
From the time she was a little girl, Nia has dreamed up adventures about the Javanese mythical princess, Dewi Kadita. Now fourteen, Nia would love nothing more than to continue her education and become a writer. But high school costs money her family doesn’t have; everything her father earns selling...
How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times
AuthorRoy Peter Clark
ISBN0316204358
America's most influential writing teacher offers an engaging and practical guide to effective short-form writing.

In HOW TO WRITE SHORT, Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed-from...
It Was The Best Of Sentences, It Was The Worst Of Sentences: A Writer's Guide To Crafting Killer Sentences
AuthorJune Casagrande
Great writing isn't born, it's built--sentence by sentence. But too many writers--and writing guides--overlook this most important unit. The result? Manuscripts that will never be published and writing careers that will never begin.
In this wickedly humorous manual, language columnist...
The Modern Library Writer's Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction
AuthorStephen Koch
ISBN0375755586
“Make [your] characters want something right away—even if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.” —Kurt Vonnegut

“‘The cat sat on the mat’ is not the beginning of a story, but ‘the...
The Phantom of the Opera
AuthorKate McMullan
ISBN0394838475
This is a good read for anybody, especially grade school, teens, and young adults. Learn to read body language and take time to understand those you date. Make sure they're happy in the relationship.

A deformed boy who never knew love and didn't even know his name grew up without love. People...
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