Best Writing Books | Summaries & Audio

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Superman Is an Arab

by Joumana Haddad • 2012

An Arab feminist declares war on God, marriage, and the toxic myth of the invincible man.

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🧕 Arab Feminism 👩 Middle Eastern Women 💪 Toxic Masculinity 🔥 Sexual Liberation ⛪ Religious Critique

Superman Is an Arab

An Arab feminist declares war on God, marriage, and the toxic myth of the invincible man.

by Joumana Haddad 2012 199 pages

3.53

500+ ratings

🧕 Arab Feminism 👩 Middle Eastern Women 💪 Toxic Masculinity 🔥 Sexual Liberation ⛪ Religious Critique

The Art of Subtext

by Charles Baxter • 2007

What a character won't say, can't hear, and can't admit: the hidden engine of unforgettable fiction.

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📖 Narrative Craft ✍️ Writers On Writing 🎨 Fiction Aesthetics 🔍 Close Reading 👤 Character Depth

The Art of Subtext

What a character won't say, can't hear, and can't admit: the hidden engine of unforgettable fiction.

by Charles Baxter 2007 182 pages

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1k+ ratings

📖 Narrative Craft ✍️ Writers On Writing 🎨 Fiction Aesthetics 🔍 Close Reading 👤 Character Depth

Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be

by Steven Pressfield • 2022

Your physical location and daily commitment open more doors than talent. Show up where it counts.

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🧱 Creative Discipline 🌠 Creative Calling 🚧 Overcoming Creative Block 📣 Art Marketing 💪 Inner Motivation

Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be

Your physical location and daily commitment open more doors than talent. Show up where it counts.

by Steven Pressfield 2022 141 pages

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1k+ ratings

🧱 Creative Discipline 🌠 Creative Calling 🚧 Overcoming Creative Block 📣 Art Marketing 💪 Inner Motivation

Now Write! Screenwriting

by Sherry Ellis • 2010

Screenwriting taught by doing: exercises from working writers that build what theory only describes.

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft 📝 Writing Exercises 🏗️ Story Structure 👤 Character Development 💬 Dialogue Writing

Now Write! Screenwriting

Screenwriting taught by doing: exercises from working writers that build what theory only describes.

by Sherry Ellis 2010 370 pages

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116 ratings

🎬 Screenwriting Craft 📝 Writing Exercises 🏗️ Story Structure 👤 Character Development 💬 Dialogue Writing

Your Inner Critic Is a Big Jerk

by Danielle Krysa • 2016

Ten mental blocks that keep you from creating, and the illustrated, pocket-sized ways around them.

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🧱 Creative Blocks 🗣️ Inner Critic 💪 Creative Confidence 🎯 Perfectionism 📤 Sharing Your Work

Your Inner Critic Is a Big Jerk

Ten mental blocks that keep you from creating, and the illustrated, pocket-sized ways around them.

by Danielle Krysa 2016 136 pages

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1k+ ratings

🧱 Creative Blocks 🗣️ Inner Critic 💪 Creative Confidence 🎯 Perfectionism 📤 Sharing Your Work

How to Write & Sell Simple Information for Fun and Profit

by Robert W. Bly • 2010

Turn a niche expertise into income: the blueprint for selling simple how-to content across formats.

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🛒 Info Products ✍️ How-To Writing 🔄 Content Repurposing 📧 List Building 🎯 Niche Marketing

How to Write & Sell Simple Information for Fun and Profit

Turn a niche expertise into income: the blueprint for selling simple how-to content across formats.

by Robert W. Bly 2010 252 pages

3.80

185 ratings

🛒 Info Products ✍️ How-To Writing 🔄 Content Repurposing 📧 List Building 🎯 Niche Marketing

The Creative Writing Coursebook

by Julia Bell • 2001

Forty authors teach the exercises and craft tools that turn rough drafts into publishable work.

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✍️ Creative Writing 📝 Writing Exercises 🏫 Workshop Method 👤 Character Development 📐 Story Structure

The Creative Writing Coursebook

Forty authors teach the exercises and craft tools that turn rough drafts into publishable work.

by Julia Bell 2001 449 pages

3.95

363 ratings

✍️ Creative Writing 📝 Writing Exercises 🏫 Workshop Method 👤 Character Development 📐 Story Structure

Semicolon

by Cecelia Watson • 2019

How a semicolon started a grammar war: the rules we invented, the people they hurt.

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🖋️ Grammar And Style 📜 Language History 🔍 Cultural Microhistory ⚖️ Language Prescriptivism 🗣️ Grammar Elitism

Semicolon

How a semicolon started a grammar war: the rules we invented, the people they hurt.

by Cecelia Watson 2019 224 pages

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2k+ ratings

🖋️ Grammar And Style 📜 Language History 🔍 Cultural Microhistory ⚖️ Language Prescriptivism 🗣️ Grammar Elitism

Writing Is Designing

by Michael J. Metts • 2020

Interface words are design elements, not just content. Research and strategy to get them right.

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🖊️ Ux Writing 📋 Content Strategy 📝 Plain Language ♿ Accessibility 🎯 User-Centered Design

Writing Is Designing

Interface words are design elements, not just content. Research and strategy to get them right.

by Michael J. Metts 2020 200 pages

4.29

500+ ratings

🖊️ Ux Writing 📋 Content Strategy 📝 Plain Language ♿ Accessibility 🎯 User-Centered Design

The Writer's Portable Mentor

by Priscilla Long • 2010

A portable system for making writing a daily practice, mastering sentences, and getting published.

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🖊️ Writing Practice 📝 Language And Style ✍️ Sentence Craft 👁️ Observation And Detail 🔄 Revision Process

The Writer's Portable Mentor

A portable system for making writing a daily practice, mastering sentences, and getting published.

by Priscilla Long 2010

4.48

361 ratings

🖊️ Writing Practice 📝 Language And Style ✍️ Sentence Craft 👁️ Observation And Detail 🔄 Revision Process

Where Research Begins

by Thomas S. Mullaney • 2022

Most research guides skip the hardest part: figuring out what problem is yours to solve.

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🧪 Research Methods ✍️ Academic Writing 🎓 Graduate Students 🪞 Reflective Practice 📐 Research Design

Where Research Begins

Most research guides skip the hardest part: figuring out what problem is yours to solve.

by Thomas S. Mullaney 2022 218 pages

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157 ratings

🧪 Research Methods ✍️ Academic Writing 🎓 Graduate Students 🪞 Reflective Practice 📐 Research Design

Everything in Its Place

by Oliver Sacks • 2019

Oliver Sacks's final essays: what broken brains reveal about music, identity, and being human.

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🧠 Neurology 🩺 Medical Humanities 📖 Narrative Medicine 👁️ Altered Perception 🏛️ History Of Psychiatry

Everything in Its Place

Oliver Sacks's final essays: what broken brains reveal about music, identity, and being human.

by Oliver Sacks 2019 288 pages

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3k+ ratings

🧠 Neurology 🩺 Medical Humanities 📖 Narrative Medicine 👁️ Altered Perception 🏛️ History Of Psychiatry

From Nothing

by Ian Pribyl • 2019

Under a hundred dollars and a laptop: the no-shortcuts playbook for building an income online.

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💻 Online Business 🔗 Affiliate Marketing ✍️ Blogging 📣 Content Marketing 🔍 SEO

From Nothing

Under a hundred dollars and a laptop: the no-shortcuts playbook for building an income online.

by Ian Pribyl 2019 360 pages

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123 ratings

💻 Online Business 🔗 Affiliate Marketing ✍️ Blogging 📣 Content Marketing 🔍 SEO

The Story Engine

by Kyle Gray • 2017

Stop writing all day. A content system that builds trust, attracts leads, and scales beyond you.

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🎯 Content Marketing 📖 Brand Storytelling 🧲 Inbound Marketing 🎣 Lead Generation ⚙️ Marketing Automation

The Story Engine

Stop writing all day. A content system that builds trust, attracts leads, and scales beyond you.

by Kyle Gray 2017 256 pages

3.66

223 ratings

🎯 Content Marketing 📖 Brand Storytelling 🧲 Inbound Marketing 🎣 Lead Generation ⚙️ Marketing Automation

On Writing Horror

by Mort Castle • 1997

What makes readers afraid: the complete craft of horror writing, from first draft to small press.

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🎃 Horror Writing ✍️ Genre Writing 🧑 Characterization 🧩 Plot Structure ⏳ Suspense Writing

On Writing Horror

What makes readers afraid: the complete craft of horror writing, from first draft to small press.

by Mort Castle 1997 272 pages

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1k+ ratings

🎃 Horror Writing ✍️ Genre Writing 🧑 Characterization 🧩 Plot Structure ⏳ Suspense Writing

Nothing Holds Back the Night

by Delphine de Vigan • 2011

After her mother died, a daughter unpacks the delusions and the family secrets that fueled them.

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🧠 Mental Illness Memoir 📖 Family Biography 🕸️ Intergenerational Trauma ✍️ Writing As Healing 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds

Nothing Holds Back the Night

After her mother died, a daughter unpacks the delusions and the family secrets that fueled them.

by Delphine de Vigan 2011 352 pages

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24k+ ratings

🧠 Mental Illness Memoir 📖 Family Biography 🕸️ Intergenerational Trauma ✍️ Writing As Healing 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds

How to Read and Why

by Harold Bloom • 2000

Read selfishly, chase pleasure, and recover the irony that academic jargon banished.

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📚 Western Canon 🔍 Close Reading 🧘 Solitary Reading 🎨 Aesthetic Pleasure 📖 Lifelong Reading

How to Read and Why

Read selfishly, chase pleasure, and recover the irony that academic jargon banished.

by Harold Bloom 2000 288 pages

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3k+ ratings

📚 Western Canon 🔍 Close Reading 🧘 Solitary Reading 🎨 Aesthetic Pleasure 📖 Lifelong Reading

English Grammar

by Sean Williams • 2019

Your grammar mistakes aren't random: a predictable hundred that mark you as careless.

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🧱 Grammar Guides ⚠️ Common Mistakes 🔣 Punctuation 📝 Word Usage 🏗️ Sentence Structure

English Grammar

Your grammar mistakes aren't random: a predictable hundred that mark you as careless.

by Sean Williams 2019 184 pages

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147 ratings

🧱 Grammar Guides ⚠️ Common Mistakes 🔣 Punctuation 📝 Word Usage 🏗️ Sentence Structure

The Fire in Fiction

by Donald Maass • 2009

An agent's field guide to the invisible craft that turns a flat manuscript into a page-turner.

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📚 Fiction Craft 🎬 Scene Building 💔 Internal Conflict 🎙️ Voice Development ⏱️ Pacing And Tension

The Fire in Fiction

An agent's field guide to the invisible craft that turns a flat manuscript into a page-turner.

by Donald Maass 2009 272 pages

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1k+ ratings

📚 Fiction Craft 🎬 Scene Building 💔 Internal Conflict 🎙️ Voice Development ⏱️ Pacing And Tension

365 Journal Writing Ideas

by Rossi Fox • 2013

One prompt a day for a year of memories, self-reflection, and creativity. The blank page loses.

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📓 Journaling 🧭 Guided Journals ✍️ Writing Prompts 🎨 Creativity Exercises 📅 Daily Practice

365 Journal Writing Ideas

One prompt a day for a year of memories, self-reflection, and creativity. The blank page loses.

by Rossi Fox 2013 250 pages

3.84

446 ratings

📓 Journaling 🧭 Guided Journals ✍️ Writing Prompts 🎨 Creativity Exercises 📅 Daily Practice

Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer

by J. Michael Straczynski • 2021

Writer's block is a myth. Revise like a surgeon, diversify across media, and outlast the industry.

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🖋️ Writing Craft 🎨 Creative Process ✂️ Manuscript Revision 🧱 Creative Blocks 👤 Character Craft

Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer

Writer's block is a myth. Revise like a surgeon, diversify across media, and outlast the industry.

by J. Michael Straczynski 2021 288 pages

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439 ratings

🖋️ Writing Craft 🎨 Creative Process ✂️ Manuscript Revision 🧱 Creative Blocks 👤 Character Craft

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

by Joan Didion • 1968

At the continent's edge, the American dream frays into murder, lost children, self-deception.

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✍️ New Journalism 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🌸 California Counterculture 🏚️ American Dream Critique 🎬 Hollywood Critique

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

At the continent's edge, the American dream frays into murder, lost children, self-deception.

by Joan Didion 1968 238 pages

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84k+ ratings

✍️ New Journalism 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🌸 California Counterculture 🏚️ American Dream Critique 🎬 Hollywood Critique

Mastering Plot Twists

by Jane K. Cleland • 2018

Why your plot twists fall flat: the real conflict is never external.

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✍️ Fiction Craft 📖 Novel Writing 🧱 Plot Structure 🎭 Character Motivation ⏱️ Pacing And Tension

Mastering Plot Twists

Why your plot twists fall flat: the real conflict is never external.

by Jane K. Cleland 2018 240 pages

3.88

199 ratings

✍️ Fiction Craft 📖 Novel Writing 🧱 Plot Structure 🎭 Character Motivation ⏱️ Pacing And Tension

Autobiography of Mark Twain

by Mark Twain • 2010

Sealed for a century: Twain's unfiltered life, with the portrait his daughter wrote tucked inside.

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🖋️ Literary Lives 🇺🇸 American Authors ✍️ Author Memoirs 😂 Humorists 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Memoir

Autobiography of Mark Twain

Sealed for a century: Twain's unfiltered life, with the portrait his daughter wrote tucked inside.

by Mark Twain 2010 414 pages

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8k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Lives 🇺🇸 American Authors ✍️ Author Memoirs 😂 Humorists 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Memoir

Role Models

by John Waters • 2010

Your role models are safe: John Waters learns from criminals, pornographers, and weird artists.

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🧑‍🎨 Outsider Art 💅 Camp Sensibility ✊ Counterculture 🕯️ Cult Figures 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Aesthetics

Role Models

Your role models are safe: John Waters learns from criminals, pornographers, and weird artists.

by John Waters 2010 304 pages

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8k+ ratings

🧑‍🎨 Outsider Art 💅 Camp Sensibility ✊ Counterculture 🕯️ Cult Figures 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Aesthetics

Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps

by Alan Gelb • 2013

A narrative arc, not a list of honors: the story structure that gets you in.

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📝 College Admissions 📄 Application Essays 📖 Narrative Writing 🏗️ Essay Structure 🎤 Authentic Voice

Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps

A narrative arc, not a list of honors: the story structure that gets you in.

by Alan Gelb 2013 226 pages

3.66

154 ratings

📝 College Admissions 📄 Application Essays 📖 Narrative Writing 🏗️ Essay Structure 🎤 Authentic Voice

Screenwriters Problem Solver How To R

by Syd Field • 1998

Ten ways a screenplay breaks, and the concrete fix for each.

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Three-Act Structure 👁️ Visual Storytelling 🧑‍🎤 Character Arcs

Screenwriters Problem Solver How To R

Ten ways a screenplay breaks, and the concrete fix for each.

by Syd Field 1998 384 pages

3.82

373 ratings

🎬 Screenwriting Craft 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Three-Act Structure 👁️ Visual Storytelling 🧑‍🎤 Character Arcs

Greek to Me

by Mary Norris • 2019

One copy editor's love affair with Greek: ancient ruins, Aegean swims, and a nation in turmoil.

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🏛️ Greek Language ✈️ Travel Memoir 📖 Language Obsession 🏺 Greek Mythology 🇬🇷 Philhellenism

Greek to Me

One copy editor's love affair with Greek: ancient ruins, Aegean swims, and a nation in turmoil.

by Mary Norris 2019 240 pages

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2k+ ratings

🏛️ Greek Language ✈️ Travel Memoir 📖 Language Obsession 🏺 Greek Mythology 🇬🇷 Philhellenism

Science Fiction

by David Seed • 2011

How space voyages, aliens, and time travel turned science fiction into the literature of ideas.

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📖 Literary Criticism 📜 Science Fiction History 👽 Alien Encounters ⏳ Time Travel 🚀 Space Exploration

Science Fiction

How space voyages, aliens, and time travel turned science fiction into the literature of ideas.

by David Seed 2011 147 pages

3.31

500+ ratings

📖 Literary Criticism 📜 Science Fiction History 👽 Alien Encounters ⏳ Time Travel 🚀 Space Exploration

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations

by Kate L. Turabian • 1955

Research is not a mystery: a system for turning a question into a polished, cited argument.

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✍️ Academic Writing 🔍 Research Process 📄 Thesis Writing 📖 Citation Guides 💬 Argument Development

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations

Research is not a mystery: a system for turning a question into a polished, cited argument.

by Kate L. Turabian 1955 466 pages

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3k+ ratings

✍️ Academic Writing 🔍 Research Process 📄 Thesis Writing 📖 Citation Guides 💬 Argument Development

Not Quite What I Was Planning

by Larry Smith • 2008

Six words: thousands wrote their life story in six words. The results are hilarious and devastating.

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📝 Flash Memoir ✍️ Writing Prompts 🔗 Creative Constraints 👥 Collective Memoir 🪞 Reflective Writing

Not Quite What I Was Planning

Six words: thousands wrote their life story in six words. The results are hilarious and devastating.

by Larry Smith 2008 240 pages

3.89

3k+ ratings

📝 Flash Memoir ✍️ Writing Prompts 🔗 Creative Constraints 👥 Collective Memoir 🪞 Reflective Writing

Coaching the Artist Within

by Eric Maisel • 2005

Manage creative anxiety, sustain mental energy, and show up when conditions are never right.

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🎨 Creative Process 🖌️ Artistic Practice 🧠 Self-Coaching 😰 Creative Anxiety 🧱 Creative Blocks

Coaching the Artist Within

Manage creative anxiety, sustain mental energy, and show up when conditions are never right.

by Eric Maisel 2005 244 pages

4.08

390 ratings

🎨 Creative Process 🖌️ Artistic Practice 🧠 Self-Coaching 😰 Creative Anxiety 🧱 Creative Blocks

1,000 Creative Writing Prompts

by Bryan Cohen • 2010

A thousand prompts and a one-month plan: write daily and the blank page stops winning.

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✍️ Writing Prompts 🧱 Writer's Block 💡 Creativity Exercises 📅 Daily Writing Habit 🔥 Writing Motivation

1,000 Creative Writing Prompts

A thousand prompts and a one-month plan: write daily and the blank page stops winning.

by Bryan Cohen 2010 117 pages

3.63

251 ratings

✍️ Writing Prompts 🧱 Writer's Block 💡 Creativity Exercises 📅 Daily Writing Habit 🔥 Writing Motivation

The Best Strangers in the World

by Ari Shapiro • 2023

He follows a Syrian refugee and sings with a band; his real job is listening.

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📻 Radio Journalism 🌍 Foreign Correspondence 🎙️ Storytelling Craft 🔍 Curiosity As Practice 💞 Radical Empathy

The Best Strangers in the World

He follows a Syrian refugee and sings with a band; his real job is listening.

by Ari Shapiro 2023 256 pages

4.02

6k+ ratings

📻 Radio Journalism 🌍 Foreign Correspondence 🎙️ Storytelling Craft 🔍 Curiosity As Practice 💞 Radical Empathy

If You Find This Letter

by Hannah Brencher • 2015

Drowning in loneliness, she left love letters on the subway. Strangers everywhere wrote back.

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🙏 Spiritual Memoir 🧠 Mental Health Memoir 🧭 Quarter-Life Crisis 💌 Loneliness And Connection ✍️ Handwritten Letters

If You Find This Letter

Drowning in loneliness, she left love letters on the subway. Strangers everywhere wrote back.

by Hannah Brencher 2015 272 pages

4.03

1k+ ratings

🙏 Spiritual Memoir 🧠 Mental Health Memoir 🧭 Quarter-Life Crisis 💌 Loneliness And Connection ✍️ Handwritten Letters

The Entrepreneur's Guide To Getting Your Shit Together

by John Carlton • 2013

The punk rock method for turning everyday stories into copy that actually sells.

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✍️ Copywriting Craft 📬 Direct Response School 📖 Business Storytelling 🧠 Persuasion Psychology 🚧 Creative Blocks

The Entrepreneur's Guide To Getting Your Shit Together

The punk rock method for turning everyday stories into copy that actually sells.

by John Carlton 2013 394 pages

4.19

240 ratings

✍️ Copywriting Craft 📬 Direct Response School 📖 Business Storytelling 🧠 Persuasion Psychology 🚧 Creative Blocks

Content Strategy for Mobile

by Karen Mcgrane • 2012

One content source, every device, no separate mobile site. Here is how to build it.

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📋 Content Strategy 🔄 Responsive Design 🗺️ Information Architecture 🏛️ Content Governance ⚙️ Content Operations

Content Strategy for Mobile

One content source, every device, no separate mobile site. Here is how to build it.

by Karen Mcgrane 2012 165 pages

4.01

468 ratings

📋 Content Strategy 🔄 Responsive Design 🗺️ Information Architecture 🏛️ Content Governance ⚙️ Content Operations

Woe Is I

by Patricia T. O'Conner • 1996

Most grammar rules aren't rules at all. Here are the few that actually clarify your writing.

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📖 English Usage 😄 Humorous Grammar 🧐 Language Myths ⚠️ Common Errors ✨ Clear Writing

Woe Is I

Most grammar rules aren't rules at all. Here are the few that actually clarify your writing.

by Patricia T. O'Conner 1996 240 pages

3.94

4k+ ratings

📖 English Usage 😄 Humorous Grammar 🧐 Language Myths ⚠️ Common Errors ✨ Clear Writing

Preparing Expository Sermons

by Ramesh Richard • 2001

Seven deliberate steps from ancient text to modern sermon: a craftsman's method for preachers.

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🎙️ Homiletics 📖 Expository Preaching 🔍 Biblical Interpretation ⛪ Practical Ministry 🐑 Pastoral Theology

Preparing Expository Sermons

Seven deliberate steps from ancient text to modern sermon: a craftsman's method for preachers.

by Ramesh Richard 2001 224 pages

4.00

214 ratings

🎙️ Homiletics 📖 Expository Preaching 🔍 Biblical Interpretation ⛪ Practical Ministry 🐑 Pastoral Theology

Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy

by Richard Greene • 2007

Tarantino's blowtorch-wielding criminals as moral philosophers: nihilism, karma, and revenge.

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🎞️ Film And Philosophy 🍿 Pop Culture Philosophy ⚡ Nietzschean Thought ☸️ Buddhist Philosophy ⚖️ Revenge Ethics

Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy

Tarantino's blowtorch-wielding criminals as moral philosophers: nihilism, karma, and revenge.

by Richard Greene 2007 288 pages

3.73

201 ratings

🎞️ Film And Philosophy 🍿 Pop Culture Philosophy ⚡ Nietzschean Thought ☸️ Buddhist Philosophy ⚖️ Revenge Ethics

Slanted

by Sharyl Attkisson • 2020

How newsrooms kill inconvenient stories, and the words that tell you they're doing it.

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📰 Media Bias 🎭 Narrative Control 🗣️ Weaponized Language 🕹️ Media Manipulation 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Slanted

How newsrooms kill inconvenient stories, and the words that tell you they're doing it.

by Sharyl Attkisson 2020 316 pages

4.31

1k+ ratings

📰 Media Bias 🎭 Narrative Control 🗣️ Weaponized Language 🕹️ Media Manipulation 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Mentor

by Tom Pace • 2007

A comedy writer's journey from wallflower to Hollywood, filled with humor and hard-won advice.

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500+

😂 Humorous Memoir 👯 Female Friendship 💪 Body Image 🎬 Hollywood Career 🤷 Self-Deprecating

Mentor

A comedy writer's journey from wallflower to Hollywood, filled with humor and hard-won advice.

by Tom Pace 2007 175 pages

4.04

500+ ratings

😂 Humorous Memoir 👯 Female Friendship 💪 Body Image 🎬 Hollywood Career 🤷 Self-Deprecating

The Faraway Nearby

by Rebecca Solnit • 2013

The frontier between a life and the story told about it is where everything important happens.

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📖 Literary Memoir ✍️ Personal Essays 🕸️ Interconnectedness 🌿 Nature Writing 🧭 Meaning Making

The Faraway Nearby

The frontier between a life and the story told about it is where everything important happens.

by Rebecca Solnit 2013 271 pages

4.20

7k+ ratings

📖 Literary Memoir ✍️ Personal Essays 🕸️ Interconnectedness 🌿 Nature Writing 🧭 Meaning Making

Crafty Screenwriting

by Alex Epstein • 2002

Write the hook they can't forget and the package they can't resist: the rules of screenwriting.

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🎬 Screenwriting Guide 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Character Arcs 🗣️ Dialogue Writing 🎞️ Genre Conventions

Crafty Screenwriting

Write the hook they can't forget and the package they can't resist: the rules of screenwriting.

by Alex Epstein 2002 288 pages

3.85

120 ratings

🎬 Screenwriting Guide 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Character Arcs 🗣️ Dialogue Writing 🎞️ Genre Conventions

Making Shapely Fiction

by Jerome Stern • 1991

Story templates over pep talks: pick a shape, fill it with detail, and turn idea into draft.

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🖊️ Fiction Writing 🏗️ Story Structure 👁️ Point Of View 💬 Dialogue Craft 👂 Sensory Detail

Making Shapely Fiction

Story templates over pep talks: pick a shape, fill it with detail, and turn idea into draft.

by Jerome Stern 1991 270 pages

3.98

1k+ ratings

🖊️ Fiction Writing 🏗️ Story Structure 👁️ Point Of View 💬 Dialogue Craft 👂 Sensory Detail

The Gutenberg Parenthesis

by Jeff Jarvis • 2023

Before print, knowledge was conversation. Then books fenced it in. The fences are coming down.

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📖 Print Culture 📰 Media History ⚙️ History Of Technology 🗣️ Orality And Literacy 🧠 Knowledge Production

The Gutenberg Parenthesis

Before print, knowledge was conversation. Then books fenced it in. The fences are coming down.

by Jeff Jarvis 2023 328 pages

3.83

218 ratings

📖 Print Culture 📰 Media History ⚙️ History Of Technology 🗣️ Orality And Literacy 🧠 Knowledge Production

Got Your Attention?

by Sam Horn • 2015

Curiosity beats credentials. Open any conversation so people lean in and ask for more.

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250

💼 Business Communication 👁️ Attention Economics 👋 First Impressions 📖 Storytelling Technique ✍️ Message Design

Got Your Attention?

Curiosity beats credentials. Open any conversation so people lean in and ask for more.

by Sam Horn 2015 216 pages

3.92

250 ratings

💼 Business Communication 👁️ Attention Economics 👋 First Impressions 📖 Storytelling Technique ✍️ Message Design

Step Across This Line

by Salman Rushdie • 2002

A death sentence for a book. A decade of essays on freedom, Oz, and writing anyway.

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1k+

✍️ Literary Essays 🗣️ Free Speech Defense 🌐 Cultural Hybridity 🪪 Postcolonial Identity ⚠️ Religious Intolerance

Step Across This Line

A death sentence for a book. A decade of essays on freedom, Oz, and writing anyway.

by Salman Rushdie 2002 317 pages

3.93

1k+ ratings

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