Fiction Writer's Workshop

9 best books like Fiction Writer's Workshop (Josip Novakovich): A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy, The Fire in Fiction: Passion, Purpose and Techniques to Make Your Novel Great, A Writer's Book of Days: A Spirited Companion and Lively Muse for the Writing Life, The Writer's Idea Book, The Artist's Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living, The Writer's Guide to Character Traits: Includes Profiles of Human Behaviors and Personality Types, The Elements of Editing, The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

Author	Daniel H. Pink
ISBN	1594481717

The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.

Drawing on research from around the world, Pink (author...

How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy

Author

Orson Scott Card

Writing for science fiction and fantasy audiences can be the most exciting writing you've ever done. Your readers are curious and want you to take them beyond ""The Fields We Know,"" to help them explore the infinite boundaries of the worlds you create.

Here, science fiction great Orson Scott...

The Fire in Fiction: Passion, Purpose and Techniques to Make Your Novel Great

Author

Donald Maass

Discover the Difference Between a So-So Manuscript and a Novel Readers Can't Forget

We've all read them: novels by our favorite authors that disappoint. Uninspired and lifeless, we wonder what happened. Was the author in a hurry? Did she have a bad year? Has he lost interest altogether?

Something...

A Writer's Book of Days: A Spirited Companion and Lively Muse for the Writing Life

Author	Judy Reeves
ISBN	1577311000

Playwright and editor Judy Reeves has taught writing, led creative writing workshops, and participated in writing groups for years. A Writer’s Book of Days is a compilation of all that she’s learned from getting together to write with other people. She says, “the book came about because I saw...

The Writer's Idea Book

Author

Jack Heffron

"Where do you get your ideas?"



It's a question and a quandary that bedevils every writer. And once you've got an idea, what then? Ideas without a plan, without a purpose, are no more than pleasant thoughts.



In The Writer's Idea Book, Jack Heffron, former senior editor...

The Artist's Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living

Author	Julia Cameron
ISBN	1585427470

This new book from the author of the international bestseller The Artist's Way guides readers through a year of cultivating a deeper connection to their creative selves.

The Artist's Way has touched the lives of millions of people around the world. Now, for the first time, fans will have a beautifully...

The Writer's Guide to Character Traits: Includes Profiles of Human Behaviors and Personality Types

Author

Linda N. Edelstein

This was a good idea but completely useless. Nothing went into enough depth to be useful, but the biggest problem is that although it was written in 1999, most of the sources used were already out of date and obsolete then. She uses Masters & Johnson from the 60's for information about homsexuality....

The Elements of Editing

Author

Arthur Plotnik

I'd like to share what is possibly the most erotic paragraph ever to discuss copyediting:

"An editor's only permanent alliance is with the audience, the readership. It is the editor's responsibility to hook that readership; to edify it, entertain it, stroke it, shake it up—do whatever...

The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language

Author	Natalie Goldberg
ISBN	1451641265

Sit. Walk. Write. These are the barest bones of Natalie Goldberg’s revolutionary writing and life practice, which she presents here in book form for the first time. A whole new slant on writing that she developed since the publication of her classic Writing Down the Bones, True Secret workshops have...