The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life
10 best books like The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life (Priscilla Long): The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song, Techniques of the Selling Writer, How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them, Page After Page: Discover the Confidence & Passion You Need to Start Writing & Keep Writing (No Matter What!), A Writer's Book of Days: A Spirited Companion and Lively Muse for the Writing Life, Manuscript Makeover: Revision Techniques No Fiction Writer Can Afford to Ignore, The Daily Writer: 366 Meditations To Cultivate A Productive And Meaningful Writing Life, Take Joy: A Writer's Guide to Loving the Craft, Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read & Write Poetry, Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer
| Author | Ellen Bryant Voigt |
| ISBN | 1555975313 |
With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning....
| Author | Dwight V. Swain |
| ISBN | 0806111917 |
Techniques of the Selling Writer provides solid instruction for people who want to write and sell fiction, not just to talk and study about it. It gives the background, insights, and specific procedures needed by all beginning writers. Here one can learn how to group words into copy that moves, movement...
| Author | Sol Stein |
| ISBN | 0312267495 |
Each year thousands of fiction writers, from beginners to bestselling author, benefit from Sol Stein's sold-out workshops, featured appearances at writers' conferences, software for writers, on-line columns, and his popular first book for writers, Stein on Writing. Stein practices what he teaches:...
| Author | Heather Sellers |
| ISBN | 1582973121 |
You Are a Writer--Believe It!
False starts. Self-doubt. Mind games. They end the moment you pick up this book. With an inspiring mix of humor, wisdom, and creativity, Page After Page shows you how to find the courage and commitment to start writing and keep writing.
Author Heather...
| 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...
Manuscript Makeover: Revision Techniques No Fiction Writer Can Afford to Ignore
| Author | Elizabeth Lyon |
| ISBN | 0399533958 |
Professional editor and author Elizabeth Lyon offers aspiring novelists the guidance and instruction they need to write and edit well-crafted and compelling stories that will stand out from the competition and attract the attention of agents and publishers, including:
- Stand-out style...
| Author | Fred White |
| ISBN | 1582975299 |
Make Writing a Part of Your Daily Routine
It isn't always easy to carve out time to devote meaningful thought and energy to your writing. Hectic schedules, distractions, and creative blocks all too often interrupt the dream - postpone it for another day.
But with 366 provocative entries...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 1582973857 |
Are you a writer longing to rediscover the joy that you once had in the craft (or even find it for the first time)? In this inspiring guide, Jane Yolen, an author who has been called America's Hans Christian Andersen, shows writers how to focus on aspects of the craft that bring them joy. She remarks in the...
| Author | Sage Cohen |
| ISBN | 1582975574 |
Writing Poetry for Everyday Life
"Poetry is just the evidence of life," says Leonard Cohen. "If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
You don't need an advanced degree to reap the rewards of a rich poetic life–writing poetry is within the reach of everyone. Poet Sage...
| Author | Bret Anthony Johnston |
| ISBN | 0812975480 |
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...
| Author | Brian Kiteley |
| ISBN | 1582975639 |
Realize All That Is Possible in Your Fiction
Writers have long turned to exercises for help with beginning—be it a new piece of fiction, a daily routine, or a serious writing life. Behind the theory of exercises is an attitude of curiosity and expectancy, a desire to ask questions of yourself...
| Author | Alexandra Johnson |
| ISBN | 0316121568 |
When I picked this book up on the "value" shelf at Barnes and Noble I expected it to be a cheezie "how to dig into your soul and find who you are" self help writing book. So now years later I truly can not remember why I actually bought it. Perhaps its 3 dollar price ticket had something to do with it.
It...
| Author | Louise DeSalvo |
| ISBN | 0807072435 |
In this inspiring book, based on her twenty years of research, highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo reveals the healing power of writing. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a way to heal the emotional and physical wounds that are an inevitable part of life. Contrary to what most...
| Author | Carolyn Kaufman |
| ISBN | 1884995683 |
Because authors tend to write about seriously flawed people, we often delve into the realm of psychology, intentionally or not. Stories in a wide array of genres feature psychologists, psychiatrists, psychopaths, schizophrenics, and any number of other characters that fall within the pale of modern...
For more than a quarter of a century, Pat Schneider has helped writers find and liberate their true voices. She has taught all kinds--the award winning, the struggling, and those who have been silenced by poverty and hardship. Her innovative methods have worked in classrooms from elementary to graduate...
| Author | Dorothy Allison |
| ISBN | 0979419816 |
The Writer's Notebook combines the best craft seminars from the Summer Writers Workshop's history with craft essays by some of Tin House's favorite authors and features a list of contributors that reads like a veritable who’s who of contemporary poets and prose writers. Jim Shepard, Aimee Bender,...
| 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....
| Author | Scott Norton |
| ISBN | 0226595145 |
Editing is a tricky business. It requires analytical flair and creative panache, the patience of a saint and the vision of a writer. Transforming a manuscript into a book that edifies, inspires, and sells? That’s the job of the developmental editor, whose desk is the first stop for many manuscripts...
| Author | Robert Olen Butler |
| ISBN | 0802142575 |
Robert Olen Butler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University -- his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream, Butler reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual, and tells writers how to achieve the dreamspace...
| Author | Jessica Page Morrell |
Effective storytelling stems from many elements, the most crucial of which are unseen or blended in so unobtrusively that they are difficult to spot and analyze. Still, they are necessary to the wholeness and coherence of a story–to create a work that lingers and resonates in the reader's imagination.In...
| Author | Susan Bell |
| ISBN | 0393057526 |
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...
By exploring the relationship between the writer and love, grief, place, family, race and violence, John Rember helps you see how to go deep in your writing. He also tells you what you'll find there and how to get back. Along the way, you'll learn how to see the world as a writer sees it.“A big part of writing...
