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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as craft)
avg rating 4.34 — 320,961 ratings — published 2000
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as craft)
avg rating 4.24 — 112,029 ratings — published 1994
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as craft)
avg rating 4.49 — 13,935 ratings — published 2018
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as craft)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,123 ratings — published 1998
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as craft)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,434 ratings — published 2021
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as craft)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,270 ratings — published 2019
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as craft)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,427 ratings — published 1918
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as craft)
avg rating 4.21 — 31,986 ratings — published 1986
Stitch 'n Bitch: The Knitter's Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as craft)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,422 ratings — published 2000
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 69 times as craft)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,535 ratings — published 2016
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as craft)
avg rating 4.53 — 25,638 ratings — published 2021
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as craft)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,281 ratings — published 2007
The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as craft)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,039 ratings — published 2016
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as craft)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,329 ratings — published 1984
Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as craft)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,173 ratings — published 2022
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as craft)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,141 ratings — published 1993
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as craft)
avg rating 3.77 — 11,921 ratings — published 2006
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as craft)
avg rating 3.97 — 119,983 ratings — published 2002
The Writing Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as craft)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,460 ratings — published 1989
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as craft)
avg rating 3.96 — 236,408 ratings — published 2015
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as craft)
avg rating 3.96 — 121,202 ratings — published 2002
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as craft)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,666 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 — 22,145 ratings — published 2005
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as craft)
avg rating 4.08 — 21,524 ratings — published 1973
Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as craft)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,991 ratings — published 1987
Stitch 'n Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as craft)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,672 ratings — published 2006
Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as craft)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,603 ratings — published 2012
The Art of Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as craft)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,449 ratings — published 2015
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as craft)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,277 ratings — published 2022
Romancing the Beat: Story Structure for Romance Novels (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as craft)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,402 ratings — published 2016
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as craft)
avg rating 4.23 — 31,096 ratings — published 1976
Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as craft)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,251 ratings — published 2013
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as craft)
avg rating 3.96 — 340,522 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 — 3,920 ratings — published 2006
A Poetry Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as craft)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,605 ratings — published 1994
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as craft)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,889 ratings — published 2001
Mending Matters: Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your Favorite Denim & More (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as craft)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,311 ratings — published 2018
Last-Minute Knitted Gifts (Last Minute Gifts)
by (shelved 35 times as craft)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,639 ratings — published 2004
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as craft)
avg rating 3.95 — 88,221 ratings — published 2023
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as craft)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,442 ratings — published 1992
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression, Second Edition (Writers Helping Writers Series Book 1)
by (shelved 33 times as craft)
avg rating 4.53 — 6,379 ratings — published 2012
Doodle Stitching: Fresh & Fun Embroidery for Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as craft)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,088 ratings — published 2007
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 — 2,550 ratings — published 1970
Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as craft)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,992 ratings — published 2004
Handmade Home: Simple Ways to Repurpose Old Materials into New Family Treasures (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as craft)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,430 ratings — published 2009
Outlining Your Novel (Helping Writers Become Authors, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as craft)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,877 ratings — published 2011
Creepy Cute Crochet: Zombies, Ninjas, Robots, and More! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as craft)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,254 ratings — published 2008
Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as craft)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,413 ratings — published
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as craft)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,919 ratings — published 2006
Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as craft)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,686 ratings — published 2016
“If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace.”
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“Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis. Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students; he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to, or change it. The young Blackadder wrote poems, imagined Dr Leavis’s comments on them, and burned them.”
― Possession
― Possession
