 | Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $3.98 Funny book. Explains how to laugh at your critical thoughts.
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 | Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print by Renni Browne
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $7.03 How to avoid common errors by writers. Sound less "hack-like."
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 | The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $6.25 How being creative is challenging and how you can do it.
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 | The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers by Betsy Lerner
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $2.42 Good information from the editor's perspective.
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 | Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life by Natalie Goldberg
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $0.01 Hilarious and a page-turner.
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 | Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Shambhala Pocket Classics) by Natalie Goldberg
Buy used from: $5.40 Might make you cry.
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 | The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile by Noah Lukeman
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $8.27 How to grab the attention of an agent and a larger audience. Very good pointers & advice.
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 | How to Write: Advice and Reflections by Richard Rhodes
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.83 Brutally honest about the mechanics of writing. Very helpful.
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 | How to Write a Book Proposal by Michael Larsen
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $6.00 I haven't used it yet because I'm not quite there yet but it's very to-the-point about what needs to be done.
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 | On Writing by Stephen King
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.18 Brillant page-turner. I never realized Stephen King was so talented and insightful. Amazing work. I think I need to read it again.
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 | Getting Into Character: Seven Secrets a Novelist Can Learn From Actors by Brandilyn Collins
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.74 Method acting as applied to character-driven writing. Very interesting and enjoyable read. I learned something about characters and their motivation.
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