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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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On Writing

By Stephen King ,

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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
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The Artist's Way

By Julia Cameron ,

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Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content
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Everybody Writes

By Ann Handley ,

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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
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On Writing Well

By William Zinsser ,

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The Elements of Style
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The Elements of Style

By William Strunk , E.B. White ,

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The Emotion Thesaurus
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The Emotion Thesaurus

By Angela Ackerman , Becca Puglisi ,

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If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
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If You Want to Write

By Brenda Ueland ,

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Write Away: One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life
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Write Away

By Elizabeth George ,

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Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
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Meander, Spiral, Explode

By Jane Alison ,

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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

By Alexander Chee ,

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Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
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Kingdom of Characters

By Jing Tsu ,

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Orality and Literacy
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Orality and Literacy

By Walter J. Ong ,

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How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less
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How to Become a Straight-A Student

By Cal Newport ,

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Tao: The Watercourse Way
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Tao

By Alan Watts ,

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You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction
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You Can't Make This Stuff Up

By Lee Gutkind ,

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How to Grow Your Own Poem
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How to Grow Your Own Poem

By Kate Clanchy ,

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Peek-A Who?
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Peek-A Who?

By Nina Laden ,

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The Fiction Writer's Guide to Dialogue: A Fresh Look at an Essential Ingredient of the Craft
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The Fiction Writer's Guide to Dialogue

By John Hough Jr. ,

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Writing for Television: Series, Serials and Soaps
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Writing for Television

By Yvonne Grace ,

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Ivy and Bean
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Ivy and Bean

By Annie Barrows , Sophie Blackall (illustrator) ,

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Several Short Sentences about Writing
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Several Short Sentences about Writing

By Verlyn Klinkenborg ,

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Writing to Be Understood: What Works and Why
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Writing to Be Understood

By Anne Janzer ,

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The Story of Art
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The Story of Art

By E.H. Gombrich ,

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How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America
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How to Write a Mystery

By Mystery Writers of America ,

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High-Value Writing: Real Strategies for Real-World Writing
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High-Value Writing

By Erin Lebacqz ,

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The A-Zs of Worldbuilding
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The A-Zs of Worldbuilding

By Rebekah Loper ,

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All Write: How to Start, Structure, and Sustain a Writing Group
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All Write

By Deborah L. Mandel ,

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The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
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The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory

By Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley (translator) ,

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Learn to Write Badly
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Learn to Write Badly

By Michael Billig ,

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Writing What You Know: How to Turn Personal Experiences Into Publishable Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry
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Writing What You Know

By Meg Files ,

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Page Fright: Foibles and Fetishes of Famous Writers
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Page Fright

By Harry Bruce ,

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Imagine
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Imagine

By Norman Messenger ,

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Moments of Being
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Moments of Being

By Virginia Woolf ,

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Writing the Natural Way: Turn the Task of Writing Into the Joy of Writing
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Writing the Natural Way

By Gabriele Lusser Rico ,

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Finding What You Didn't Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making
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Finding What You Didn't Lose

By John Fox ,

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Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner
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Listening to Your Life

By Frederick Buechner ,

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Kafka: I Am a Memory Come Alive: Autobiographical Writings
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Kafka

By Franz Kafka , Nahum N.Glatzer (editor) ,

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Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts
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Lost Languages

By Andrew Robinson ,

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Breaking the Maya Code
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Breaking the Maya Code

By Michael D. Coe ,

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I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
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I'll Show Myself Out

By Jessi Klein ,

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A Void
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A Void

By Georges Perec , Gilbert Adair (translator) ,

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Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature
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Wonderlands

By Charles Baxter ,

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How to Be a Brilliant Writer
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How to Be a Brilliant Writer

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Sing Me the Creation: Creative Writing Sourcebook
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Sing Me the Creation

By Paul Matthews ,

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Writing Picture Books: A Hands-On Guide from Story Creation to Publication
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Writing Picture Books

By Ann Whitford Paul ,

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Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
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Species of Spaces and Other Pieces

By Georges Perec ,

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Things I Don't Want to Know
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Things I Don't Want to Know

By Deborah Levy ,

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When in Rome
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When in Rome

By Liam Callanan ,

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The Trope Thesaurus
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The Trope Thesaurus

By Jennifer Hilt ,

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The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future
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The Bullet Journal Method

By Ryder Carroll ,

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A Strangeness in My Mind
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A Strangeness in My Mind

By Orhan Pamuk , Ekin Oklap (translator) ,

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Coffee: Growing, Processing, Sustainable Production: A Guidebook for Growers, Processors, Traders and Researchers
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Coffee

By Jean Nicolas Wintgens (editor) ,

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Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process
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Writing With Power

By Peter Elbow ,

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How to Write a Lot
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How to Write a Lot

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"They Say / I Say"
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"They Say / I Say"

By Gerald Graff , Cathy Birkenstein , Russel Durst

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Questioning the Future
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Questioning the Future

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Still Writing
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Still Writing

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