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10 best books like The Forest for the Trees (Betsy Lerner): On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, The Artist's Way, Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words, The Writing Life, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers, The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation Into the Writing Life, Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish, Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
AuthorStephen King
ISBN0743455967
"Long live the King" hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King's On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every...
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
AuthorAnne Lamott
ISBN0385480016
"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and...
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
AuthorNatalie Goldberg
ISBN1590303164
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 Artist's Way
AuthorJulia Cameron
ISBN1585421464
The Artist’s Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist’s life. Still as vital today—or perhaps even more so—than it was when it was first published one decade ago, it is a...
Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words
AuthorSusan Goldsmith Wooldridge
ISBN0609800981
If you are new to poetry and would like to start writing your own poems for fun, but are not sure how to start, this book is for you. This is a great, unintimidating book for all ages. And a great introduction for those who might not have much interest in poetry, in general, because the author has included short,...
The Writing Life
AuthorAnnie Dillard
ISBN0060919884
This is a brief yet intense essay on the art, or as Dillard would say, the burden of writing that will delight readers and aspiring writers alike.
Writing is a way of life, and Dillard’s relationship with words is, to say the least, controversial.
Her lucid ponderings on the obsessive nature...
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
AuthorJohn Gardner
ISBN0679734031
This classic guide, from the renowned novelist and professor, has helped transform generations of aspiring writers into masterful writers—and will continue to do so for many years to come.  
 
John Gardner was almost as famous as a teacher of creative writing as he was for his own works....
The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation Into the Writing Life
AuthorJulia Cameron
ISBN1585420093
What if everything we have been taught about learning to write was wrong? In The Right to Write, Julia Cameron's most revolutionary book, the author of the bestselling self-help guide The Artist's Way, asserts that conventional writing wisdom would have you believe in a false doctrine that stifles...
Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish
AuthorJames Scott Bell
Craft an Engaging Plot

How does plot influence story structure? What's the difference between plotting for commercial and literary fiction? How do you revise a plot or structure that's gone off course?

With "Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure," you'll discover the answers...
Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life
AuthorNatalie Goldberg
ISBN0553347756
Natalie Goldberg, author of the bestselling  Writing Down The Bones, teaches a method  of writing that can take you beyond craft to the  true source of creative power: The mind that is  "raw, full of energy, alive and  hungry."



Here is compassionate, practical,...
Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
AuthorLisa Cron
ISBN1607742454
This guide reveals how writers can utilize cognitive storytelling strategies to craft stories that ignite readers’ brains and captivate them through each plot element.

  Imagine knowing what the brain craves from every tale it encounters, what fuels the success of any great story,...
If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
AuthorBrenda Ueland
ISBN1555972608
In her 93 remarkable years, Brenda Ueland published six million words. She said she had two rules she followed absolutely: to tell the truth, and not to do anything she didn't want to do. Her integrity shines throughout If You Want to Write, her best-selling classic on the process of writing that has already...
The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
AuthorNoah Lukeman
The First Five Pages

Editors always tell novice writers that the first few pages of a manuscript are crucial in the publishing process -- and it's true. If an editor or agent (or reader) loses interest after a page or two, you've lost him or her completely, even if the middle of your novel is brilliant...
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN0933377460
I'm pretty skeptical of books on writing, if only because everyone seems to have written one. And so many of them come at you with flashy promises: "Sell Your Novel In Thirty Days!"

Prior to having read LeGuin's "Steering the Craft," I relied on three books, more or less:

1. Strunk and...
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...
How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author
AuthorJanet Evanovich
ISBN0312354282
This book details the elements of writing and publishing a novel, and addresses all categories of fiction--from mystery/thriller/action titles to romance; from stand-alone narratives to series. It offers practical and inspiring advice on such subjects as structuring a plot and handling rejection....
The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself
AuthorSusan Bell
ISBN0393057526
The Artful Edit explores the many-faceted and often misunderstood—or simply overlooked—art of editing. Brimming with examples, quotes, and case studies that include an illuminating discussion of Max Perkins's editorial collaboration with F. Scott Fitzgerald on The Great Gatsby, this book...
The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language
AuthorNatalie Goldberg
ISBN1451641265
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...
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