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Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft

10 best books like Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (Janet Burroway): The Pocket Muse: Ideas and Inspirations for Writing, On Becoming a Novelist, How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them, Creating Short Fiction: The Classic Guide to Writing Short Fiction, A Writer's Book of Days: A Spirited Companion and Lively Muse for the Writing Life, Chapter After Chapter: Discover the Dedication & Focus You Need to Write the Book of Your Dreams, The Writer's Idea Book, Take Joy: A Writer's Guide to Loving the Craft, What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers, Room to Write: Daily Invitations to a Writer's Life

The Pocket Muse: Ideas and Inspirations for Writing
AuthorMonica Wood
ISBN1582973229
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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...
On Becoming a Novelist
AuthorJohn Gardner
ISBN0393320030
On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner's distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing teacher. With elegance, humor, and sophistication, Gardner describes the life of a working novelist; warns what needs to be guarded against,...
How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them
AuthorSol Stein
ISBN0312267495
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:...
Creating Short Fiction: The Classic Guide to Writing Short Fiction
AuthorDamon Knight
ISBN0312150946
Distilled from decades of teaching and practice, this book offers clear and direct advice on structure, pacing, dialogue, getting ideas, working with the unconscious, and more. Newly revised and expanded for this Third Edition, Creating Short Fiction is a popular and widely trusted guide to writing...
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...
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 Writer's Idea Book
AuthorJack Heffron
"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...
Take Joy: A Writer's Guide to Loving the Craft
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN1582973857
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...
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...
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...
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...
Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook: Hands-On Help for Making Your Novel Stand Out and Succeed
AuthorDonald Maass
Make Your Novel Stand Out from the Crowd!

Noted literary agent and author Donald Maass has done it again! His previous book, "Writing the Breakout Novel," offered novelists of all skill levels and genres insider advice on how to make their books rise above the competition and succeed in a crowded...
Writing from the Inside Out: Transforming Your Psychological Blocks to Release the Writer Within
AuthorDennis Palumbo
ISBN0471382663
"Dennis Palumbo has great insight into a writer s psyche.... Every writer should have a shrink or this book. The book is cheaper."
--Gary Shandling, actor, comic, and writer "wise, compassionate, and funny..."
--Aram Saroyan, poet and novelist

"Dennis Palumbo provides a sense...
Writing Alone and with Others
AuthorPat Schneider
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...
Fiction Writer's Workshop
AuthorJosip Novakovich
ISBN1884910394
This book exemplifies the best of a writing workshop: thought-provoking instruction, a charismatic teacher and illuminating examples from classic and contemporary literary masters.
Each chapter explores a different aspect of the art of fiction and ends with a series of writing exercises...
The Weekend Novelist
AuthorRobert J. Ray
ISBN0823084507
Who doesn't dream of writing a novel while holding on to their day job? Robert J. Ray and co-author Bret Norris can help readers do just that, with this practical and accessible step-by-step guide to completing a novel in just a year's worth of weekends.

THE WEEKEND NOVELIST shows writers at...
The Writer's Guide to Character Traits: Includes Profiles of Human Behaviors and Personality Types
AuthorLinda N. Edelstein
This was a good idea but completely useless. Nothing went into enough depth to be useful, but the biggest problem is that although it was written in 1999, most of the sources used were already out of date and obsolete then. She uses Masters & Johnson from the 60's for information about homsexuality....
Alone with All That Could Happen: Rethinking Conventional Wisdom about the Craft of Fiction
AuthorDavid Jauss
ISBN1582975388
In a satisfying story or novel, all of the pieces seem to fit together so effortlessly, so seamlessly, that it's easy to find yourself wondering, "How on earth did the author do this?" The answer is simple: He sat alone at his desk, considered an array of options, and made smart, careful choices.

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Plot
AuthorAnsen Dibell
ISBN0898799465
"There are ways to create, fix, steer and discover plots--ways which, over a writing life, you'd eventually puzzle out for yourself," writes Ansen Dibell. "They aren't laws. They're an array of choices, things to try, once you've put a name to the particular problem you're facing now."

That's...
Making Shapely Fiction
AuthorJerome Stern
Here is a book about the craft of writing fiction that is thoroughly useful from the first to the last page—whether the reader is a beginner, a seasoned writer, or a teacher of writing. You will see how a work takes form and shape once you grasp the principles of momentum, tension, and immediacy. "Tension,"...
The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Writing Fiction and Nonfiction
AuthorAlice LaPlante
ISBN0393061647
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....
From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction
AuthorRobert Olen Butler
ISBN0802142575
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...
The Scene Book: A Primer for the Fiction Writer
AuthorSandra Scofield
ISBN0143038265
A treasure-trove of scene-writing wisdom from award-winning author and teacher Sandra Scofield To write a good scene, you have to know the following:
• Every scene has an EVENT
• Every scene has a FUNCTION in the narrative
• Every scene has a STRUCTURE: a beginning, middle, and end
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Description & Setting
AuthorRon Rozelle
Build a Believable World

How essential is setting to a story? How much description is too much? In what ways do details and setting tie into plot and character development? How can you use setting and description to add depth to your story?

You can find all the answers you need in Write...
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