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Creating Fiction: Instruction and Insights from Teachers of the Associated Writing Programs

10 best books like Creating Fiction: Instruction and Insights from Teachers of the Associated Writing Programs (Julie Checkoway): On Becoming a Novelist, Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, The Daily Writer: 366 Meditations To Cultivate A Productive And Meaningful Writing Life, Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer's Craft, Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer, Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print, Novelist's Essential Guide to Crafting Scenes, The Novel Writer's Toolkit: A Guide To Writing Novels And Getting Published, Pen on Fire: A Busy Woman's Guide to Igniting the Writer Within, Your Life as Story: Discovering the "new Autobiography" and Writing Memoir as Literature

On Becoming a Novelist
AuthorJohn Gardner
ISBN0393320030
On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner's distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing teacher. With elegance, humor, and sophistication, Gardner describes the life of a working novelist; warns what needs to be guarded against,...
Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft
AuthorJanet Burroway
ISBN0321277368
The most widely used and respected text in its field, Writing Fiction, 7e guides the novice story writer from first inspiration to final revision. A bestseller through six editions, Writing Fiction by novelists Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French explores the elements of fiction, providing...
The Daily Writer: 366 Meditations To Cultivate A Productive And Meaningful Writing Life
AuthorFred White
ISBN1582975299
Make Writing a Part of Your Daily Routine

It isn't always easy to carve out time to devote meaningful thought and energy to your writing. Hectic schedules, distractions, and creative blocks all too often interrupt the dream - postpone it for another day.

But with 366 provocative entries...
Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer's Craft
AuthorNatalie Goldberg
ISBN0553374966
In this long-awaited sequel to her bestselling books Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind, Natalie Goldberg, one of the most sought-after writing teachers of our time, takes us to the next step in the writing process.

You’ve filled your notebooks, done your writing practice, discovered...
Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer
AuthorBret Anthony Johnston
ISBN0812975480
You already have the tools to become a gifted writer; what you need is the spark. Harvard creative writing professor and acclaimed author Bret Anthony Johnston brings you an irresistible interactive guide to the craft of narrative writing. From developing characters to building conflict, from mastering...
Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print
AuthorLawrence Block
ISBN0898792088
Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel is a book about writing by the legendary Lawrence Block.

Lawrence Block sent me this in an email a couple weeks ago, asking me if I was interested in reviewing his upcoming book about writing. Once I changed into pants that weren't as soaked in my urine,...
Novelist's Essential Guide to Crafting Scenes
AuthorRaymond Obstfeld
ISBN0898799732
Writing page-turning fiction depends on your ability to create rock-solid, believable scenes. Scenes act as dynamic structures that thrust both your characters and readers forward through conflict, baiting them with goals that may–or may not–be obtained. Writing good scenes makes the difference...
The Novel Writer's Toolkit: A Guide To Writing Novels And Getting Published
AuthorBob Mayer
ISBN1582972613
Here's the book writers have been waiting for! Covering every aspect of the creative journey, The Novel Writer's Toolkit shows readers how to:
- Develop salable ideas
- Set a writing schedule and stick to it
- Develop compelling characters and plot
- Find an agent or an editor who will...
Pen on Fire: A Busy Woman's Guide to Igniting the Writer Within
AuthorBarbara DeMarco-Barrett
ISBN0156029782
In her fifteen years of teaching, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett has found that the biggest stumbling block for aspiring writers (especially women) is not fear of the blank page but frustration with the lack of time. What woman doesn't have too much to do and too little time? Finding an hour free of work, children,...
Your Life as Story: Discovering the "new Autobiography" and Writing Memoir as Literature
AuthorTristine Rainer
ISBN0874779227
Blending literary scholarship with practical coaching on how to craft short or long life narratives, Rainer traces the history of autobiography from Egyptian inscriptions through its recent evolution on the bestseller lists. Aided by examples from such writers as Maya Angelou, Russell Baker,...
The Half-Known World: On Writing Fiction
AuthorRobert Boswell
ISBN1555975046
A rigorous examination of the workings of fiction by the novelist Robert Boswell, "one of America's finest writers" (Tom Perrotta)

Robert Boswell has been writing, reading, and teaching literature for more than twenty years. In this sparkling collection of essays, he brings this vast experience...
Your First Novel: An Author Agent Team Share the Keys to Achieving Your Dream
AuthorAnn Rittenberg
ISBN1582973881
In Your First Novel, novelist Laura Whitcomb and seasoned literary agent Ann Rittenberg team up to provide you with the skills you need to write your dream novel and the savvy business know-how to get it published. In this all-in-one resource, you'll discover essential novel-writing techniques,...
Fiction Writer's Workshop
AuthorJosip Novakovich
ISBN1884910394
This book exemplifies the best of a writing workshop: thought-provoking instruction, a charismatic teacher and illuminating examples from classic and contemporary literary masters.
Each chapter explores a different aspect of the art of fiction and ends with a series of writing exercises...
The Weekend Novelist
AuthorRobert J. Ray
ISBN0823084507
Who doesn't dream of writing a novel while holding on to their day job? Robert J. Ray and co-author Bret Norris can help readers do just that, with this practical and accessible step-by-step guide to completing a novel in just a year's worth of weekends.

THE WEEKEND NOVELIST shows writers at...
The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot
AuthorCharles Baxter
ISBN1555974732
Charles Baxter inaugurates The Art of, a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction.

Fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter's The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot discusses and illustrates the...
78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published and 14 Reasons Why Itjust Might
AuthorPat Walsh
ISBN0143035657
For the hundreds of thousands who buy writers' guides every year, at last there's one that tells the ugly truth: writers who can't get published are usually making a lot of mistakes. This honest, often funny, book shows them how to identify their own missteps, stop listening to bad advice, and get to work....
The Complete Handbook Of Novel Writing: Everything You Need To Know About Creating & Selling Your Work (Writers Digest)
AuthorWriter's Digest Books
Get advice from the best in the business on every stage of the novel-writing and publishing process!

In The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing, 3rd Edition, you'll learn from established writers about how to make your novel a reality. Discover techniques and strategies for generating ideas,...
Narrative Design: Working with Imagination, Craft, and Form
AuthorMadison Smartt Bell
ISBN0393320219
Focusing on the big picture as well as the crucial details, Bell examines twelve stories by both established writers (including Peter Taylor, Mary Gaitskill, and Carolyn Chute) and his own former students. A story's use of time, plot, character, and other elements of fiction are analyzed, and readers...
The Lie That Tells a Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction
AuthorJohn Dufresne
ISBN0393325814
Finally, a truly creative—and hilarious—guide to creative writing, full of encouragement and sound advice. Provocative and reassuring, nurturing and wise, The Lie That Tells a Truth is essential to writers in general, fiction writers in particular, beginning writers, serious writers, and...
Letters to a Fiction Writer
AuthorFrederick Busch
ISBN0393320618
I love this book. When I feel lost or out of touch with my own writing--usually as I'm easing back into the habit after a period of being too busy with other things to write--I open this up and reread a letter. Most often I go to the one by Charles Baxter, in which he writes, among many other things:

"The...
For Writers Only
AuthorSophy Burnham
"I see but one rule: to be clear."
--Stendhal
If only it were as easy for most writers as it was for Stendhal. The truth about the act of writing is much more varied, even violent. In fact, there seem to be as many contradictory admonitions about how to go about doing it as there are writers themselves.
With...
Starting from Scratch
AuthorRita Mae Brown
From the best-selling author of  Rubyfruit Jungle and  Bingo, here is a writers' manual as provocative,  frank, and funny as her fiction. Unlike most  writers' guides, this one had as much to do with how  writers live as with mastering the tools of their  trade. Rita Mae Brown begins...
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