The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation Into the Writing Life
10 best books like The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation Into the Writing Life (Julia Cameron): Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, The Pocket Muse: Ideas and Inspirations for Writing, The Writing Life, Writing the Breakout Novel, Stein on Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies, Becoming a Writer, Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life, If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit, Write Away: One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life, Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
| Author | Natalie Goldberg |
| ISBN | 1590303164 |
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...
| Author | Monica Wood |
| ISBN | 1582973229 |
The Barnes & Noble Review
Sparkling with delightful, witty, thought-provoking morsels for today's writers, Monica Wood's dreamy yet realistic writer's companion will encourage your muse to take flight. The stimulating visuals laced throughout the book uniquely capture the...
| Author | Annie Dillard |
| ISBN | 0060919884 |
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...
Writing the Breakout Novel
Take your fiction to the next level!
Maybe you're a first-time novelist looking for practical guidance. Maybe you've already been published, but your latest effort is stuck in mid-list limbo. Whatever the case may be, author and literary agent Donald Maass can show you how to take your prose...
Stein on Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies
| Author | Sol Stein |
| ISBN | 0312254210 |
Stein on Writing provides immediately useful advice for all writers of fiction and nonfiction, whether they are newcomers or old hands, students or instructors, amateurs or professionals. As the always clear and direct Stein explains here, "This is not a book of theory. It is a book of usable solutions--how...
| Author | Dorothea Brande |
| ISBN | 0874771641 |
Refreshingly slim, beautifully written and deliciously elegant, Dorothea Brande's Becoming a Writer remains evergreen decades after it was first written. Brande believed passionately that although people have varying amounts of talent, anyone can write. It's just a question of finding the "writer's...
| Author | Natalie Goldberg |
| ISBN | 0553347756 |
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,...
If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
| Author | Brenda Ueland |
| ISBN | 1555972608 |
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...
| Author | Elizabeth George |
| ISBN | 0060560444 |
7/4/17 ... I posted my comments to my author blog ... https://lewweinsteinauthorblog.com/ ... and marked the book to re-read again ... there is always something important to remember, or a new perspective to learn
6/23/17 ... reading again ... bringing back to mind the wonderful advice Elizabeth...
| Author | Janet Burroway |
| ISBN | 0321277368 |
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...
| Author | Ralph Keyes |
| ISBN | 0805074678 |
The Courage to Write is an invaluable book and essential reading for anyone who wishes to learn how to write well.
Katherine Anne Porter called courage "the first essential" for a writer. "I have to talk myself into bravery with every sentence," agreed Cynthia Ozick, "sometimes every syllable."...
| Author | Betsy Lerner |
| ISBN | 1573228575 |
In this volume, Betsy Lerner, an admired American book editor, shares her editorial wisdom and provides an insider's understanding of the publishing process. From her long experience working with successful writers and discovering new voices, Lerner looks at different writer personality types...
Vivid and memorable characters aren't born: they have to be made.
This book is a set of tools: literary crowbars, chisels, mallets, pliers and tongs. Use them to pry, chip, yank and sift good characters out of the place where they live in your memory, your imagination and your soul.
Award-winning...
"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...
| Author | Anne Bernays |
| ISBN | 0062720066 |
What If? is the first handbook for writers based on the idea that specific exercises are one of the most useful and provocative methods for mastering the art of writing fiction. With more than twenty-five years of experience teaching creative writing between them, Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter offer...
| Author | Elizabeth Berg |
| ISBN | 0060929294 |
Elizabeth Berg touches women's lives with heartbreakingly funny and true novels -- including the New York Times bestseller Talk Before Sleep -- that distinctly capture the essence of their lives. Now this critically acclaimed author and writing instructor offers an inspiring, practical handbook...
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...
Creative Companion: How to Free Your Creative Spirit
| Author | S.A.R.K. |
| ISBN | 0890876517 |
I got this book years ago as a gift, and really enjoyed it at the time... but now it's hard for me to take it seriously. My main issue is the constant refrain of "don't worry about the money!" It sounds great when written in fancy script on watercolor paper, but the fact is that we DO have to worry about money...
