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Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life

10 best books like Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life (Natalie Goldberg): Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, The Artist's Way, A Poetry Handbook, Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words, The Writing Life, 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, The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation Into the Writing Life, If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit, The Forest for the Trees

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...
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...
A Poetry Handbook
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN0156724006
A Poetry Handbook is something I wish I had read a lot earlier in my career as a student of literature, to say nothing of the tentative ventures I’ve made into writing poetry since I was young. A lot of people say this book is a good reiteration of things they learned in their college classes, but I sincerely...
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...
Stein on Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies
AuthorSol Stein
ISBN0312254210
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...
Becoming a Writer
AuthorDorothea Brande
ISBN0874771641
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...
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...
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 Forest for the Trees
AuthorBetsy Lerner
ISBN1573228575
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...
Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers
AuthorCarolyn See
ISBN0345440463
As Carolyn See says, writing guides are like preachers on Sunday?there may be a lot of them, but you can't have too many, and there's always an audience of the faithful. And while Making a Literary Life is ostensibly a book that teaches you how to write, it really teaches you how to make your interior life...
A Writer's Book of Days: A Spirited Companion and Lively Muse for the Writing Life
AuthorJudy Reeves
ISBN1577311000
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...
The Artist's Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living
AuthorJulia Cameron
ISBN1585427470
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...
What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers
AuthorAnne Bernays
ISBN0062720066
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...
Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives
AuthorLouise DeSalvo
ISBN0807072435
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...
Elves, Wights, and Trolls: Studies Towards the Practice of Germanic Heathenry: Vol. I
AuthorKveldúlf Hagan Gundarsson
ISBN0595421652
Elves, Trolls, and Wights is the most complete study yet made of the various beings with whom the Vikings shared their world, from the smallest spirits of stones and plants to the great giants who strive against or aid the Norse gods. Elves, dwarves, giants, wights dwelling in rocks, streams, and oceans:...
Creative Companion: How to Free Your Creative Spirit
AuthorS.A.R.K.
ISBN0890876517
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...
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