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"In Amina Cain's first nonfiction book, a series of essayistic inquiries come together to form a sustained meditation on writers and their works, on the spaces of reading and writing fiction, and how these spaces take shape inside a life. Driven by primary questions of authenticity and freedom in the shadow of ecological and social collapse, Cain moves associatively through a personal canon of authors-including Marguerite Duras, Elena Ferrante, Renee...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
In a series of conversational observations and meditations on the writing process, The Art of Slow Writing examines the benefits of writing slowly. DeSalvo advises her readers to explore their creative process on deeper levels by getting to know themselves and their stories more fully over a longer period of time.
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An anthology of original essays by fifty major American writers on one hundred essential short stories. 'A writer,' Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow once said, 'is a reader who is moved to emulation.' That idea inspired New York Times bestselling novelist and memoirist Andre Dubus III to invite fifty acclaimed authors to write about the precise alchemy of emulation, about short stories that altered their view of life and their place in it-short stories...
Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Writer's block does not mean you're lazy, undisciplined or lacking in will power, talent, or ambition. You just need to learn what you are experiencing is coming from a fight-or-flight response which is hardwired into our brains. This makes us want to flee the sources of our anxieties by any means possible. So stop blaming yourself and learn how to fight it by harnessing the power of brain science to overcome resistance and develop a productive...
9) Journaling
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Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Take some time to relax, get to know yourself better, cope with stress and anxiety, get organized, create something that outlasts you-plus, it's a cheap form of psychotherapy. This book is a comprehensive overview of the most widely used types of journaling. Learn which tools and supplies you'll need to get started and get tips on how to make writing into a habit you'll keep"--
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Language
English
Description
Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip of alcohism, an addiction that cost them personal happiness and caused harm to those who loved them?In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. All...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Viki King's Inner Movie Method is a specific step-by-step process designed to get the story in your heart onto the page. This method doesn't just show how to craft a classic three-act story but also delves into how to clarify the idea you don't quite have yet, how to tell if your idea is really a movie, and how to stop getting ready and start. Once you know what to write, the Inner Movie Method will show you how to write it. This ultimate scriptwriting...
Author
Publisher
Writer's Digest Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An insightful guide for any writer who's ever wondered if they're talented, creative, lovable, or worthy enough. Spoiler alert: You are. As hard as the craft of writing is, the greatest challenges writers face are often within ourselves. Comparison, self-doubt, isolation, and other internal struggles can derail a writer's progress, at any stage in the writing life. Author, essayist, and speaker William Kenower knows these struggles first-hand, and...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Poet and novelist Helen Humphreys's And a Dog Called Fig, a meditation on the benefits of dogs to the creative life, including the dogs of well-known writers from history, portraits of all the dogs from the author's life, and the arrival and raising of her new puppy"--
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