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  Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

  by Francine Prose

  Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose. In Reading Like a Writer , Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the work of the very best writers&#8212Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen,... (more)
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  Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

  by Anne Lamott

  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. Reprint. Tour. K. NYT.
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  The Weekend Novelist

  by Robert J. Ray

  Covering novel-writing basics and offering a skeleton model on which to build individual novels, a fifty-two week program takes aspiring writers, working one weekend at a time, step by step through a program that will help them produce a novel.
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  Spunk & Bite: A writer's guide to punchier, more engaging language & style

  by Arthur Plotnik

  When too tightly leashed, writing chokes and loses its vitality. Although the rules of composition popularized in William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White’s Elements of Style have been de rigueur for decades, they won’t exactly set your writing free. To the rescue comes Spunk & Bite , a guide to bold and radiant language and style. The secret, according to bestselling author and former publishing executive... (more)