Writing - General
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Simple & Direct
$18.99 Add to cartA fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve one’s style. His discussions of diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revisi
- Author: Barzun, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 18 2001
- ISBN10: 60937238
- Language: English
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It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer’s Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences
$15.00 Add to cartIn this wickedly humorous manual, language columnist June Casagrande uses grammar and syntax to show exactly what makes some sentences great–and other sentences suck.
Great writing isn’t born, it’s b- Author: Casagrande, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 27 2010
- ISBN10: 158008740X
- Language: English
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The Book You Need to Read to Write the Book You Want to Write: A Handbook for Fiction Writers
$17.99 Add to cart- Author: Burton, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: May 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1009073737
- Language: English
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Writing with Skill, Level 1: Student Workbook
$31.95 Add to cartThis groundbreaking new writing series combines time-tested classical techniques–the imitation and analysis of great writers–with original composition exercises in history, science, biography, and l… [more below]
- Series: Complete Writer #0
- Author: Bauer, Susan Wise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: January 16 2012
- ISBN10: 1933339535
- Language: English
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The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
$16.00 Add to cartFrom Charles Johnson–a National Book Award winner, Professor Emeritus at University of Washington, and one of America’s preeminent scholars on literature and race–comes an instructive, inspiring gui… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1501147226
- Language: English
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Book Architecture: How to Plot and Outline Without Using a Formula
$20.00 Add to cartIn Book Architecture: How to Plot and Outline Without Using a Formula, Stuart Horwitz returns with his trademark clarity to help writers craft a powerful plot and an effective outline for their works-… [more below]
- Author: Horwitz, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0986420409
- Language: English
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Stranger’s Journey: Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing
$32.95 Add to cartLong recognized as a master teacher at writing programs like VONA, the Loft, and the Stonecoast MFA, with A Stranger’s Journey, David Mura has written a book on creative writing that addresses our inc
- Author: Mura, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0820353469
- Language: English
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The Lively Art of Writing: Words, Sentences, Style and Technique–An Essential Guide to One of Todays Most Necessary Skills
$9.99 Add to cartAn essential refernce for writers–both new and experienced–that will help improve your writing skills and style and help you say exactly what you want to say.
Students, teachers, businessmen, aspiri- Author: Payne, Lucile Vaughan
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 01 1969
- ISBN10: 0451627121
- Language: English
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Writing Brave and Free: Encouraging Words for People Who Want to Start Writing
$14.95 Add to cartSometimes setting pen to paper requires bravery, and writing well means breaking free of the rules learned in school. Liberating and emboldening the beginning writer are the goals of Ted Kooser and St… [more below]
- Author: Kooser, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803278322
- Language: English
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Elements of Fiction
$17.95 Add to cartFollowing his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, award-winning author Walter Mosley delivers an eloquent treatise on the craft of fiction writing–part writing guide, part study
- Author: Mosley, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 802157351
- Language: English
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Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within
$17.95 Add to cart“The creative process is just that,” maintains Kim Addonizio. “Not a means to an end, but an ongoing participation.” A widely acclaimed poet and finalist for the National Book Award, Addonizio meditat… [more below]
- Author: Addonizio, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334163
- Language: English
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The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building
$20.00 Add to cartAn insider’s tour through the construction of invented languages from the bestselling author and creator of languages for Legendary’s Dune, the HBO series Game of Thrones and the Syfy series Defiance
- Author: Peterson, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 0143126466
- Language: English
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Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape
$19.95 Add to cartHailed by book reviewers as a “masterpiece,” “gorgeous and fascinating,” and “sheer pleasure,” Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape was published in fall 2006 in hardcover. It was met with o… [more below]
- Author: Lopez, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 578
- Publish Date: August 20 2013
- ISBN10: 1595341757
- Language: English
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The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing
$9.99 Add to cartA Concise Course in the Art of Writing
Whether you’re composing a letter, writing a school thesis, or starting a novel, this resource offers expert advice on how to think more creatively, how to conj- Series: Essential Resource Library
- Author: Kane, Thomas S.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0425176401
- Language: English
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The Lost Art of Handwriting: Rediscover the Beauty and Power of Penmanship
$16.99 Add to cartRevisit the lost art of writing with these fun prompts, worksheets, exercises–and more –and experience the many benefits of writing by hand, including increased focus and memory, relaxation, and cre… [more below]
- Author: Jordan, Brenna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1507209363
- Language: English
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Voice First: A Writer’s Manifesto
$23.95 Add to cartThough it is foundational to the craft of writing, the concept of voice is a mystery to many authors, and teachers of writing do not have a good working definition of it for use in the classroom. Writ… [more below]
- Author: Huber, Sonya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496231317
- Language: English
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How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
$16.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style” —Adam Haslett, Financial Times
“A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the Engli
- Author: Fish, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 006184053X
- Language: English
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The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language
$18.99 Add to cartThe beloved teacher and author of the million-and-a-half copy bestseller Writing Down the Bones reveals a new method of writing in “a priceless distillation of her accumulated wisdom and experience as… [more below]
- Author: Goldberg, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1451641257
- Language: English
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Writers Workshop of Horror
$21.95 Add to cartWriters Workshop of Horror focuses solely on honing the craft of writing. It includes solid advice, from professionals of every publishing level, on how to improve one’s writing skills. The volume edi… [more below]
- Author: Knost, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: July 16 2009
- ISBN10: 0982493916
- Language: English
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The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
$17.00 Add to cartComedian and actor Stephen Fry’s witty and practical guide, now in paperback, gives the aspiring poet or student the tools and confidence to write and understand poetry.
Stephen Fry believes that if- Author: Fry, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1592403115
- Language: English
