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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 214 times as craft)
avg rating 4.34 — 328,162 ratings — published 2000
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as craft)
avg rating 4.24 — 115,258 ratings — published 1994
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as craft)
avg rating 4.49 — 14,695 ratings — published 2018
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as craft)
avg rating 4.25 — 6,631 ratings — published 1998
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as craft)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,459 ratings — published 1918
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as craft)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,366 ratings — published 2019
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as craft)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,502 ratings — published 2021
Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
by (shelved 75 times as craft)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,844 ratings — published 2016
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as craft)
avg rating 4.53 — 27,526 ratings — published 2021
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as craft)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,463 ratings — published 2007
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as craft)
avg rating 4.21 — 32,461 ratings — published 1986
Stitch 'n Bitch: The Knitter's Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as craft)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,427 ratings — published 2000
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as craft)
avg rating 3.78 — 12,161 ratings — published 2006
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as craft)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,397 ratings — published 1984
Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as craft)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,344 ratings — published 2022
The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as craft)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,197 ratings — published 2016
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as craft)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,270 ratings — published 1993
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as craft)
avg rating 3.96 — 124,157 ratings — published 2002
The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as craft)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,815 ratings — published 1989
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as craft)
avg rating 3.96 — 124,927 ratings — published 2002
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as craft)
avg rating 3.96 — 241,358 ratings — published 2015
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as craft)
avg rating 4.27 — 18,065 ratings — published 1997
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as craft)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,889 ratings — published 2005
Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as craft)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,063 ratings — published 1987
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as craft)
avg rating 4.08 — 22,006 ratings — published 1973
Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as craft)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,720 ratings — published 2012
Stitch 'n Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as craft)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,675 ratings — published 2006
The Art of Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as craft)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,689 ratings — published 2015
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as craft)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,505 ratings — published 2022
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as craft)
avg rating 4.24 — 31,694 ratings — published 1976
Romancing the Beat: Story Structure for Romance Novels (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as craft)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,578 ratings — published 2016
A Poetry Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as craft)
avg rating 4.23 — 10,152 ratings — published 1994
Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as craft)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,326 ratings — published 2013
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as craft)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,012 ratings — published 2001
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as craft)
avg rating 3.97 — 352,816 ratings — published 2012
Knitting Rules!: The Yarn Harlot Unravels the Mysteries of Swatching, Stashing, Ribbing & Rolling to Free Your Inner Knitter (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as craft)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,932 ratings — published 2006
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as craft)
avg rating 3.94 — 100,132 ratings — published 2023
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression (Writers Helping Writers, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as craft)
avg rating 4.53 — 6,456 ratings — published 2012
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as craft)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,553 ratings — published 1992
Last-Minute Knitted Gifts (Last Minute Gifts)
by (shelved 35 times as craft)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,645 ratings — published 2004
Mending Matters: Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your Favorite Denim & More (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as craft)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,334 ratings — published 2018
Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as craft)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,792 ratings — published 2016
Several Short Sentences About Writing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as craft)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,740 ratings — published 2012
Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as craft)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,023 ratings — published 2004
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as craft)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,993 ratings — published 2006
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as craft)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,481 ratings — published 2008
Knitting Without Tears: Basic Techniques and Easy-to-Follow Directions for Garments to Fit All Sizes (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as craft)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,557 ratings — published 1970
Outlining Your Novel (Helping Writers Become Authors, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as craft)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,907 ratings — published 2011
Handmade Home: Simple Ways to Repurpose Old Materials into New Family Treasures (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as craft)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,428 ratings — published 2009
Creepy Cute Crochet: Zombies, Ninjas, Robots, and More! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as craft)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,255 ratings — published 2008
“Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering what we did last year and, more profoundly, where we have gone and quite what we have amounted to....
How different everything is for the craftsman who ... can step back at the end of a day or lifetime and point to an object--whether a square of canvas, a chair or a clay jug--and see it as a stable repository of his skills and an accurate record of his years, and hence feel collected together in one place, rather than strung out across projects which long ago evaporated into nothing one could hold or see.”
― The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
How different everything is for the craftsman who ... can step back at the end of a day or lifetime and point to an object--whether a square of canvas, a chair or a clay jug--and see it as a stable repository of his skills and an accurate record of his years, and hence feel collected together in one place, rather than strung out across projects which long ago evaporated into nothing one could hold or see.”
― The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
“The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.”
― The Edinburgh review: or Critical journal
― The Edinburgh review: or Critical journal
