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The Virginia Woolf Writers' Workshop: Seven Lessons to Inspire Great Writing

10 best books like The Virginia Woolf Writers' Workshop: Seven Lessons to Inspire Great Writing (Danell Jones): The Pocket Muse 2: Endless Inspiration for Writers, Chapter After Chapter: Discover the Dedication & Focus You Need to Write the Book of Your Dreams, The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left, Writing Is My Drink: A Writer's Story of Finding Her Voice (and a Guide to How You Can Too), The Second Common Reader, The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction, Writing Fiction Step by Step, Room to Write: Daily Invitations to a Writer's Life, The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University

The Pocket Muse 2: Endless Inspiration for Writers
AuthorMonica Wood
As is obvious from the title, this is a sequel (of sorts) of The Pocket Muse, a collection of writing tips, prompts, and inspirations for writers; a place to turn to for a jump start, fresh idea, or new angle. Like the first one, this volume of Pocket Muse includes pictures, poetry, prose, direct advice,...
Chapter After Chapter: Discover the Dedication & Focus You Need to Write the Book of Your Dreams
AuthorHeather Sellers
Writing a book requires a focus, a sense of knowing and trusting in yourself and your work. And it requires an unflinching commitment to staying the course. Chapter After Chapter shows you how to build on your good writing habits, accrue and recognize tiny successes, and turn your dedication to the craft...
The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left
AuthorDavid Crystal
The story of battles--both past and present--surrounding English language usage, The Fight for English explores why millions of people feel linguistically inferior. Unhappy with the "zero tolerance" approach to punctuation offered by Lynn Truss's Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, David Crystal offers...
Writing Is My Drink: A Writer's Story of Finding Her Voice (and a Guide to How You Can Too)
AuthorTheo Pauline Nestor
ISBN1451665091
"Theo Nestor is a writer who, I am positive, will be heard from," wrote Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt, and hear from her we do in this enthralling memoir that doubles as a witty and richly told writing guide. Yet the real promise in Writing Is My Drink lies in Nestor's uncanny ability as a...
The Second Common Reader
AuthorVirginia Woolf
ISBN0156028166
3.5 stars

Last year I came across The Common Reader Vol. I at a Kinokuniya Bookstore in Bangkok and ordered Vol. II immediately. In fact, these famed two volumes have been published in various editions since 1932 and I've tried to buy them for a long time. Enticed by the simple title, I've since...
The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction
AuthorRobert L. Root Jr.
ISBN0321434846
This best-selling anthology is a comprehensive and indispensable introduction to the way creative nonfiction is written today. The Fourth Genre offers the most comprehensive, teachable, and current introduction available today to the cutting-edge, evolving genre of creative nonfiction. While...
Writing Fiction Step by Step
AuthorJosip Novakovich
ISBN1884910351
Writing Fiction Step by Step gives you more than 200 exercises that will sharpen your writing skills while helping you develop complete short stories, even novels. In this sequel to his very popular Fiction Writer's Workshop, Whiting Award-winning author Josip Novakovich shows you that writing...
Room to Write: Daily Invitations to a Writer's Life
AuthorBonni Goldberg
ISBN0874778255
What makes someone a writer? A writer writes, expressing the world through synthesis of mind and magic, sensuality and spirit. With both humor and reverence, Room to Write playfully prevails on us to experience the world through a writer's eyes, and respond to the creative sparks that charge good writing.

In...
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
AuthorJ.A. Cuddon
ISBN0140513639
The latest installment of this trusted literary companion covers all aspects of literary theory, from definitions of technical terms to characterizations of literary movements. Geared toward students, teachers, readers, and writers alike, The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary...
Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
AuthorMark Kramer
ISBN0452287553
Inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice—covering everything...
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...
Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing
AuthorRoger Rosenblatt
ISBN0061965618
Multiple award-winner Roger Rosenblatt has received glowing critical acclaim for his exceptional literary works—from the hilarious novels Lapham Rising and Beet to his poignant, heartbreaking, ultimately inspiring memoir Making Toast. With Unless It Moves the Human Heart, the revered novelist,...
Write. 10 Days to Overcome Writer's Block. Period.
AuthorKaren E. Peterson
ISBN1593375034
I bought this book back in 2009 and read it a little, but then got bored. So, this month, I decided to try again and started from the beginning. I'll admit, some things the author wrote were interesting, but the dominant hand/non-dominant hand exercises were overdone and pointless to me. I mean, I had the...
Emotional Structure: Creating the Story Beneath the Plot: A Guide for Screenwriters
AuthorPeter Dunne
The leap from concept to final draft is great, and the task is filled with hard work and horrors. It is here that most writers struggle to get the plot right at the expense of the story's real power. The result is a script that is logical in every way, yet
unmoving.  Emotional Structure, by Emmy- and...
What Would Your Character Do?
AuthorEric Maisel
ISBN1582973725
Get Inside Your Character's HeadJust how well do you know your characters?

Test yourself–and your characters–with 30 interactive pop quizzes designed to help you discover exactly what makes your characters tick.

Noted author Eric Maisel draws on his technical knowledge...
A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation
AuthorNoah Lukeman
ISBN0393329801
The first practical and accessible guide to the art of punctuation for creative writers. Punctuation reveals the writer: haphazard commas, for example, reveal haphazard thinking; clear, lucid breaks reveal clear, lucid thinking. Punctuation can be used to teach the writer how to think and how to...
MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing
AuthorJoseph Gibaldi
ISBN0873526996
Since its publication in 1985, the MLA STYLE MANUAL has been the standard guide for graduate students, teachers & scholars in the humanities & for professional writers in many fields. Extensively reorganized & revised, the eagerly awaited 2nd edition contains new sections & updated...
Ron Carlson Writes a Story
AuthorRon Carlson
ISBN1555974775
Ron Carlson has been praised as “a master of the short story” (Booklist). In this book-length essay, he offers a full range of notes and gives rare insight into a veteran writer’s process by inviting the reader to watch over his shoulder as he creates the short story “The Governor’s Ball.”

“This...
Rip the Page!: Adventures in Creative Writing
AuthorKaren Benke
ISBN1590308123
Here are the ideas, experiments, and inspiration to unfold your imagination and get your writing to flow off the page! This is the everything-you-need guide to spark new poems and unstick old stories, including lists of big, small, gross-out, and favorite words; adventurous and zany prompts to leap...
Spunk & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Punchier, More Engaging Language & Style
AuthorArthur Plotnik
ISBN0375721150
When too tightly leashed, writing chokes and loses its vitality. Although the rules of composition popularized in William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White's Elements of Style have been de rigueur for decades, they won't exactly set your writing free.

To the rescue comes Spunk & Bite, a guide...
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...
You Can Write a Novel
AuthorJames V. Smith Jr.
"I have a great idea for a novel, but I'm just not sure how to start..."

Sound familiar? The dream of virtually every hopeful fiction writer is to take that idea and turn it into a salable novel. In You Can Write a Novel, veteran author James Smith breaks down this complex process into simple, logical...
Ruth Hall and Other Writings
AuthorFanny Fern
ISBN0813511682
When Ruth Hall was originally published in 1855, it caused a sensation. In it, Fanny Fern (Sara Payson Willis Parton) portrays a mid-nineteenth-century woman who realizes the American Dream solely on her own becoming the incarnation of the American individualist-regarded at that time as a role designed...
Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little
AuthorChristopher Johnson
ISBN0393077403
Some of the most important verbal messages we craft are also the shortest: headlines, titles, sound bites, brand names, domain names, slogans, taglines, company mantras, email signatures, bullet points. These miniature messages depend not on the elements of style but rather on the atoms of style....
remembered rapture: the writer at work
Authorbell hooks
ISBN0805059105
With grace and insight, celebrated writer bell hooks untangles the complex personae of women writers. Born and raised in the rural South, hooks learned early the power of the written word and the importance of speaking her mind. Her passion for words is the heartbeat of this collection of essays. Remembered...
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