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• Good Writing

  36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences

  Allen, Neal (Spiritual coach),

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  Two writers show you how to turn a worthy sentence into a memorable one. Good Writing can improve your book, your essay, your memo, your blog post, speech, or script. These essential rules for persuasive language work on any type of writing, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Writing Creativity and Soul

  Kidd, Sue Monk,

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  Combines memoir, spiritual exploration, and guidance by drawing on the author's journey and insights from celebrated writers to argue that writing is a soulful act requiring creativity, courage, and a deep connection to one's imagination and inner…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lab

  Experiments in Writing Across Genre

  Davison, Matthew Clark,

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  Writers don’t need formulas; they need encouragement to take risks. The Lab offers a bold, hands-on approach, urging writers to embrace uncertainty, experiment with form, and investigate what haunts them. It features ten chapters and ninety…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Way of the Fearless Writer

  Mindful Wisdom for a Flourishing Writing Life

  Kempton, Beth,

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  You are invited to embark on a sacred writing journey. Along the way, author Beth Kempton will teach you how to free your mind so your body can create, transform your relationship to fear, write anytime, anywhere, and share your words with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow

  a DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories

  Almond, Steve,

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  Steve Almond shares the insights gleaned from three decades as a beloved teacher and mentor, and a considerably less-beloved literary rabble-rouser. His tone is irreverent. His ideas are iconoclastic. And his approach is stubbornly, radically,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Writing on Empty

  a Guide to Finding Your Voice

  Goldberg, Natalie,

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  Natalie Goldberg has been writing for the past fifty years. But at the beginning of the pandemic, she suddenly wasn’t able to write anymore. Her imaginative wellspring had dried up, and she was forced to ask herself: what do I do when what has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Your Story Matters

  Find Your Voice, Sharpen Your Skills, Tell Your Story

  Shukla, Nikesh,

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  Why do stories matter? I tell stories to make sense of the world as I see it. The world I have lived and experienced, read about and heard about, and what I want it to be. I tell stories to make sense of myself.

• Writing That Gets Noticed

  Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, Get Published

  Erasmus, Estelle,

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  Writing and getting published can be daunting. Countless people write personal essays, articles, and hybrid essay-articles and know they produce great material but can’t figure out how to package it to capture the hard-to-get attention of assigning…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On Writing and Failure

  Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer

  Marche, Stephen,

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  Writing is, and always will be, an act defined by failure. The best plan is to just get used to it.

• Write for Life

  Creative Tools for Every Writer : a Six-week Artist's Way Program

  Cameron, Julia

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  A 6-Week Artist’s Way Program. Drawing on a lifetime of writing, Cameron gives readers practical tools to start, pursue, and finish their writing projects. Write for Life is an essential read for writers who have completed The Artist’s Way and are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bird by Bird

  Some Instructions on Writing and Life

  Lamott, Anne

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  A step-by-step guide to writing and managing the writer's life covers each portion of a written project, addresses such concerns as writer's block and getting published, and offers awareness and survival tips.

• Eats, Shoots & Leaves

  the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

  Truss, Lynne

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  Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in e-mail and now "txt msgs", we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In "Eats, Shoots & Leaves", former editor Lynne Truss dares to say that it is time to look at our commas and…Read moreRead more of this annotation