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10 best books like Plot (Ansen Dibell): Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print, How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy, Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction, The Artist's Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living, The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything...Fast, Finding a Form, The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot, The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Writing Fiction and Nonfiction, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing, The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language

Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print

Author	Renni Browne
ISBN	0060545690

"A superb tutorial for anyone wanting to learn from pros how to polish fiction writing with panache."-- Library Journal

Hundreds of books have been written on the art of writing. Here at last is a book by two professional editors to teach writers the techniques of the editing trade that turn...

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...

Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction

Author	Jeff VanderMeer
ISBN	1419704427

This all-new definitive guide to writing imaginative fiction takes a completely novel approach and fully exploits the visual nature of fantasy through original drawings, maps, renderings, and exercises to create a spectacularly beautiful and inspiring object. Employing an accessible, example-rich...

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 First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything...Fast

Author	Josh Kaufman
ISBN	1591845556

Forget the 10,000 hour rule— what if it’s possible to learn the basics of any new skill in 20 hours or less?
 
Take a moment to consider how many things you want to learn to do. What’s on your list? What’s holding you back from getting started? Are you worried about the time and effort it...

Finding a Form

Author	William H. Gass
ISBN	0801484898

William Gass writes about literary language, about history, about the avant-garde, about minimalism's brief vogue, about the use of the present tense in fiction (Is it due to the lack of both a sense of history and a belief in the future?), about biography as a form, about exile - spiritual and geographical...

The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot

Author	Charles Baxter
ISBN	1555974732

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...

The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Writing Fiction and Nonfiction

Author	Alice LaPlante
ISBN	0393061647

The Making of a Story is a fresh and inspiring guide to the basics of creative writing—both fiction and creative nonfiction. Its hands-on, completely accessible approach walks writers through each stage of the creative process, from the initial triggering idea to the revision of the final manuscript....

The Portable MFA in Creative Writing

Author	The New York Writers Workshop
ISBN	1582973504

Get the core knowledge of a prestigious MFA education without the tuition.

Have you always wanted to get an MFA, but couldn't because of the cost, time commitment, or admission requirements?

Well now you can fulfill that dream without having to devote tons of money or time. The Portable...

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...

How to Fight a Hydra: Face Your Fears, Pursue Your Ambitions, and Become the Hero You Are Destined to Be

Author

Josh Kaufman

A survival manual for ambitious artists entrepreneurs ADVENTURERS

You have a Hydra: a grand, ambitious project you’ve always wanted to tackle. It feels overwhelming, unconquerable. Chop off one of a Hydra’s heads, and two more grow in its place.

How will you ever defeat such...

Over the Garden Wall Vol. 5

Author	Pat McHale
ISBN	1684152429

Tales told from far and wide, all across the frightful and magical Unknown! 

Travel further into the Unknown than ever before with this collection of tales told from across the journeyed grounds of Wirt and Greg. With Fred the Horse as your guide, visit familiar faces and new friends - Melodious...