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Your First 1000 Copies

— Tim Grahl • 2013

Sell 1,000 copies without the sleaze: an email list, free content, and genuine reader relationships.

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📚 Book Marketing 🏗️ Author Platform 📧 Email Marketing 📝 Content Marketing 🤝 Relationship Marketing

Your First 1000 Copies

Sell 1,000 copies without the sleaze: an email list, free content, and genuine reader relationships.

— Tim Grahl 2013 147 стр.

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Writing Poetry To Save Your Life

— Maria Mazziotti Gillan • 2013

Forget the rules. Your story, told honestly, is the poem someone out there needs to read.

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📝 Poetry Writing ✨ Creative Writing 🧱 Creative Blocks 💚 Writing As Healing 🗣️ Personal Storytelling

Writing Poetry To Save Your Life

Forget the rules. Your story, told honestly, is the poem someone out there needs to read.

— Maria Mazziotti Gillan 2013 202 стр.

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📝 Poetry Writing ✨ Creative Writing 🧱 Creative Blocks 💚 Writing As Healing 🗣️ Personal Storytelling

Life Hacks

— Keith Bradford • 2014

Fast phone charging, quick hiccup relief, sinking-car escape: tiny fixes that cover daily life.

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Life Hacks

Fast phone charging, quick hiccup relief, sinking-car escape: tiny fixes that cover daily life.

— Keith Bradford 2014 304 стр.

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🧰 Life Hacks 🏠 Household Tips 🩹 Diy Home Remedies 🍳 Kitchen Shortcuts 💰 Frugal Living

The Right-Brain Business Plan

— Jennifer Lee. • 2011

Spreadsheets feel wrong for your creative work. A visual, paint-and-collage plan built on intuition.

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🎨 Creative Entrepreneurship 🗺️ Visual Planning 💸 Money Mindset 🏷️ Crafting Your Brand 🧠 Right-Brain Thinking

The Right-Brain Business Plan

Spreadsheets feel wrong for your creative work. A visual, paint-and-collage plan built on intuition.

— Jennifer Lee. 2011 240 стр.

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🎨 Creative Entrepreneurship 🗺️ Visual Planning 💸 Money Mindset 🏷️ Crafting Your Brand 🧠 Right-Brain Thinking

Gracious

— Kelly Williams Brown • 2017

Charm can be learned. Tact can be practiced. Both begin with how you treat yourself.

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🍽️ Modern Etiquette 💗 Self-Compassion 🏠 Hospitality 👗 Personal Style 📱 Digital Mindfulness

Gracious

Charm can be learned. Tact can be practiced. Both begin with how you treat yourself.

— Kelly Williams Brown 2017 256 стр.

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🍽️ Modern Etiquette 💗 Self-Compassion 🏠 Hospitality 👗 Personal Style 📱 Digital Mindfulness

How to DJ Right

— Frank Broughton • 2002

The mix is the easy part. The art is building a set that tells a story.

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🎛️ Music Production 💿 Vinyl Collecting 🎚️ Mixing Techniques 🕺 Live Performance 🗂️ Music Curation

How to DJ Right

The mix is the easy part. The art is building a set that tells a story.

— Frank Broughton 2002 288 стр.

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🎛️ Music Production 💿 Vinyl Collecting 🎚️ Mixing Techniques 🕺 Live Performance 🗂️ Music Curation

Thinking Like Your Editor

— Susan Rabiner • 2002

Trade editors don't acquire books; they acquire audiences. Your proposal has to prove you have one.

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🗒️ Book Proposals 🏢 Trade Publishing 📖 Narrative Nonfiction 🧩 Narrative Structure ✂️ Editorial Process

Thinking Like Your Editor

Trade editors don't acquire books; they acquire audiences. Your proposal has to prove you have one.

— Susan Rabiner 2002 288 стр.

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🗒️ Book Proposals 🏢 Trade Publishing 📖 Narrative Nonfiction 🧩 Narrative Structure ✂️ Editorial Process

Conflict and Suspense

— James Scott Bell • 2011

Tension leaks from most manuscripts. The craft guide for sealing every scene with conflict.

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📝 Fiction Writing 🏗️ Story Structure ⚔️ Conflict Design 🎬 Scene Construction ⏳ Suspense Techniques

Conflict and Suspense

Tension leaks from most manuscripts. The craft guide for sealing every scene with conflict.

— James Scott Bell 2011 273 стр.

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📝 Fiction Writing 🏗️ Story Structure ⚔️ Conflict Design 🎬 Scene Construction ⏳ Suspense Techniques

Crafting Novels & Short Stories

— The Writer's Digest • 2011

Character, plot, prose, and revision: the craft kit every fiction writer returns to.

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📝 Novel Writing 📖 Short Story Writing 🎭 Character Creation 📊 Plot Structure 💬 Dialogue Craft

Crafting Novels & Short Stories

Character, plot, prose, and revision: the craft kit every fiction writer returns to.

— The Writer's Digest 2011 368 стр.

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📝 Novel Writing 📖 Short Story Writing 🎭 Character Creation 📊 Plot Structure 💬 Dialogue Craft

Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook

— Donald Maass • 2004

The craft upgrades that separate novels readers finish from those they abandon.

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🖊️ Fiction Writing 🎭 Character Development 🏗️ Plot Construction ✏️ Writing Exercises ⚡ Narrative Tension

Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook

The craft upgrades that separate novels readers finish from those they abandon.

— Donald Maass 2004 240 стр.

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🖊️ Fiction Writing 🎭 Character Development 🏗️ Plot Construction ✏️ Writing Exercises ⚡ Narrative Tension

Just Write

— James Scott Bell • 2016

How a working novelist structures story, builds character, and treats writing like a profession.

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📖 Fiction Writing 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Character Development ⏱️ Writers' Productivity 🛡️ Creative Discipline

Just Write

How a working novelist structures story, builds character, and treats writing like a profession.

— James Scott Bell 2016 303 стр.

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📖 Fiction Writing 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Character Development ⏱️ Writers' Productivity 🛡️ Creative Discipline

На крючке

— Лес Эджертон • 2007

The inciting incident is page one. Cut the backstory and open with trouble: here is how.

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🖋️ Fiction Writing 🚪 Story Openings 🧵 Narrative Craft ⚡ Inciting Incidents ⚔️ Tension And Conflict

На крючке

The inciting incident is page one. Cut the backstory and open with trouble: here is how.

— Лес Эджертон 2007 256 стр.

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🖋️ Fiction Writing 🚪 Story Openings 🧵 Narrative Craft ⚡ Inciting Incidents ⚔️ Tension And Conflict

Teach Your Child How To Think

— Edward de Bono • 1994

Intelligence is potential. Thinking is a skill. Build it in your child, one exercise at a time.

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🏠 Parenting Guides 🧠 Cognitive Development 💭 Thinking Skills 🎨 Divergent Thinking 💗 Emotional Intelligence In Children

Teach Your Child How To Think

Intelligence is potential. Thinking is a skill. Build it in your child, one exercise at a time.

— Edward de Bono 1994

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🏠 Parenting Guides 🧠 Cognitive Development 💭 Thinking Skills 🎨 Divergent Thinking 💗 Emotional Intelligence In Children

This Year You Write Your Novel

— Walter Mosley • 2007

Your unconscious writes the story. Give it ninety minutes a day and stop censoring.

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📖 Novel Writing 📅 Daily Writing Practice 🌊 Creative Subconscious 🔓 Self-Censorship ✂️ Revision Process

This Year You Write Your Novel

Your unconscious writes the story. Give it ninety minutes a day and stop censoring.

— Walter Mosley 2007

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📖 Novel Writing 📅 Daily Writing Practice 🌊 Creative Subconscious 🔓 Self-Censorship ✂️ Revision Process

Carrots Love Tomatoes

— Louise Riotte • 1975

Every plant has allies and enemies. The pairings that build a thriving garden without chemicals.

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🌱 Companion Planting 🍂 Organic Gardening 🐞 Natural Pest Control 🪱 Soil Health 📐 Garden Planning

Carrots Love Tomatoes

Every plant has allies and enemies. The pairings that build a thriving garden without chemicals.

— Louise Riotte 1975 224 стр.

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🌱 Companion Planting 🍂 Organic Gardening 🐞 Natural Pest Control 🪱 Soil Health 📐 Garden Planning

Revision & Self-Editing

— James Scott Bell • 2008

A big-picture-first revision system: fix your novel's bones before you polish a single sentence.

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✍️ Fiction Craft 🔄 Novel Revision 📝 Novel Writing 🏗️ Story Structure 🎬 Scene Structure

Revision & Self-Editing

A big-picture-first revision system: fix your novel's bones before you polish a single sentence.

— James Scott Bell 2008 266 стр.

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✍️ Fiction Craft 🔄 Novel Revision 📝 Novel Writing 🏗️ Story Structure 🎬 Scene Structure

The Permaculture Garden

— Graham Bell • 1994

A garden that hardly needs you: design it like a forest once, harvest for decades.

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🌀 Permaculture 🌳 Forest Gardening 🪱 Soil Health 💧 Water Conservation 🥬 Perennial Vegetables

The Permaculture Garden

A garden that hardly needs you: design it like a forest once, harvest for decades.

— Graham Bell 1994 174 стр.

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🌀 Permaculture 🌳 Forest Gardening 🪱 Soil Health 💧 Water Conservation 🥬 Perennial Vegetables

House Love

— Patric Richardson • 2023

A cleaning method built on gratitude and vinegar, turning chores into an act of self-care.

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🧹 Home Organization 🧼 Housekeeping Guide 🛋️ Interior Styling 🌿 Eco-Friendly Home 🧘 Mindful Domesticity

House Love

A cleaning method built on gratitude and vinegar, turning chores into an act of self-care.

— Patric Richardson 2023 216 стр.

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🧹 Home Organization 🧼 Housekeeping Guide 🛋️ Interior Styling 🌿 Eco-Friendly Home 🧘 Mindful Domesticity

Writing 21st Century Fiction

— Donald Maass • 2012

Plot alone won't keep readers. The craft of making scenes and sentences pull with equal force.

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📝 Fiction Craft ⚖️ Commercial Literary Blend 💔 Emotional Stakes 🧠 Character Interiority 🎬 Scene Craft

Writing 21st Century Fiction

Plot alone won't keep readers. The craft of making scenes and sentences pull with equal force.

— Donald Maass 2012 224 стр.

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📝 Fiction Craft ⚖️ Commercial Literary Blend 💔 Emotional Stakes 🧠 Character Interiority 🎬 Scene Craft

The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published

— Arielle Eckstut • 2005

After the manuscript comes the business: getting published, from query to royalty check.

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🏢 Publishing Industry 📚 Traditional Publishing 📄 Book Proposals ✉️ Query Letters 💻 Self-Publishing

The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published

After the manuscript comes the business: getting published, from query to royalty check.

— Arielle Eckstut 2005 802 стр.

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🏢 Publishing Industry 📚 Traditional Publishing 📄 Book Proposals ✉️ Query Letters 💻 Self-Publishing

Life Makeovers

— Cheryl Richardson • 2000

One change per week for a year: the method that outlasts every crash self-improvement program.

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🧘 Self-Care Routines 🗺️ Life Planning 📅 Weekly Challenges 🎯 Priority Setting 🧹 Decluttering

Life Makeovers

One change per week for a year: the method that outlasts every crash self-improvement program.

— Cheryl Richardson 2000 209 стр.

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🧘 Self-Care Routines 🗺️ Life Planning 📅 Weekly Challenges 🎯 Priority Setting 🧹 Decluttering

Gardening When It Counts

— Steve Solomon • 2006

Most gardening books assume cheap inputs and grocery stores. This one assumes the day both are gone.

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🔨 Subsistence Gardening 🌱 Organic Gardening 🧪 Soil Fertility 🌾 Seed Saving 💧 Water Conservation

Gardening When It Counts

Most gardening books assume cheap inputs and grocery stores. This one assumes the day both are gone.

— Steve Solomon 2006 360 стр.

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🔨 Subsistence Gardening 🌱 Organic Gardening 🧪 Soil Fertility 🌾 Seed Saving 💧 Water Conservation

Retired Racing Greyhounds For Dummies

— Lee Livingood • 2000

From track to living room: adopting a retired racing greyhound, from first night to golden years.

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🐕 Greyhound Adoption 📋 Breed-Specific Care 🏠 Dog Adoption 🛟 Rescue Dogs 🎾 Positive Reinforcement

Retired Racing Greyhounds For Dummies

From track to living room: adopting a retired racing greyhound, from first night to golden years.

— Lee Livingood 2000 288 стр.

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🐕 Greyhound Adoption 📋 Breed-Specific Care 🏠 Dog Adoption 🛟 Rescue Dogs 🎾 Positive Reinforcement

Wrestling for Fighting

— Randy Couture • 2007

A champion's blueprint for turning wrestling into the most adaptable weapon in the cage.

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🥊 Combat Sports 🥋 Mma Training 🤼 Grappling Fundamentals 📋 Fight Strategy 🧠 Fighter Mindset

Wrestling for Fighting

A champion's blueprint for turning wrestling into the most adaptable weapon in the cage.

— Randy Couture 2007 216 стр.

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Don't Send a Resume and (Oeb) Other Contrarian Rules to Help Land a Great Job

— Jeffrey J. Fox • 2001

Skip HR. Write the boss a proposal that proves your worth in dollars and close the deal.

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📋 Job Search Guides 💼 Interview Preparation 💰 Sales Mindset ✉️ Direct Outreach ⚡ Personal Effectiveness

Don't Send a Resume and (Oeb) Other Contrarian Rules to Help Land a Great Job

Skip HR. Write the boss a proposal that proves your worth in dollars and close the deal.

— Jeffrey J. Fox 2001 192 стр.

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📋 Job Search Guides 💼 Interview Preparation 💰 Sales Mindset ✉️ Direct Outreach ⚡ Personal Effectiveness

Dialogue

— Gloria Kempton • 2004

Stilted dialogue comes from writing it, not channeling it. Make characters speak for themselves.

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📝 Fiction Writing 💬 Dialogue Craft 🎭 Character Voice 🧵 Narrative Technique ✍️ Writing Mechanics

Dialogue

Stilted dialogue comes from writing it, not channeling it. Make characters speak for themselves.

— Gloria Kempton 2004 240 стр.

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📝 Fiction Writing 💬 Dialogue Craft 🎭 Character Voice 🧵 Narrative Technique ✍️ Writing Mechanics

Managing to Change the World

— Alison Green • 2009

For nonprofit managers: how to hire, delegate, give honest feedback, and build a team that delivers.

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🏛️ Nonprofit Management 👥 People Management 📊 Performance Management 🏢 Workplace Culture 🔍 Hiring And Retention

Managing to Change the World

For nonprofit managers: how to hire, delegate, give honest feedback, and build a team that delivers.

— Alison Green 2009 240 стр.

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🏛️ Nonprofit Management 👥 People Management 📊 Performance Management 🏢 Workplace Culture 🔍 Hiring And Retention

The Plot Whisperer

— Martha Alderson • 2011

One line on a page reveals where your story sags and what the middle needs most.

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🏗️ Story Structure 📝 Novel Writing 📈 Plot Development 🎭 Character Arcs 🗺️ Outlining Methods

The Plot Whisperer

One line on a page reveals where your story sags and what the middle needs most.

— Martha Alderson 2011 256 стр.

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🏗️ Story Structure 📝 Novel Writing 📈 Plot Development 🎭 Character Arcs 🗺️ Outlining Methods

How to Travel the World on $50 a Day

— Matt Kepnes • 2013

A $50 daily budget, rewards card, hostel kitchen: the math that buys life on the road.

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💰 Budget Travel 💳 Travel Hacking 🐢 Slow Travel 🎒 Gap Year Travel 🗺️ Long Term Travel

How to Travel the World on $50 a Day

A $50 daily budget, rewards card, hostel kitchen: the math that buys life on the road.

— Matt Kepnes 2013 272 стр.

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💰 Budget Travel 💳 Travel Hacking 🐢 Slow Travel 🎒 Gap Year Travel 🗺️ Long Term Travel

Creative Writing For Dummies

— Maggie Hamand • 2010

From notebook: what makes travel writing sell, how to find your story, where to pitch.

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🧳 Travel Writing ✍️ Writing Craft 📚 Creative Nonfiction 📝 Travel Memoir 💼 Freelance Writing

Creative Writing For Dummies

From notebook: what makes travel writing sell, how to find your story, where to pitch.

— Maggie Hamand 2010 386 стр.

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🧳 Travel Writing ✍️ Writing Craft 📚 Creative Nonfiction 📝 Travel Memoir 💼 Freelance Writing

Gentle Writing Advice

— Chuck Wendig • 2023

The writing life burns out the best. Skip the craft rules; this is the guide to creative survival.

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🧠 Writing Mindset 🌱 Creative Sustainability 🛁 Creative Self-Care 🎨 Creative Play 🚧 Writer's Block

Gentle Writing Advice

The writing life burns out the best. Skip the craft rules; this is the guide to creative survival.

— Chuck Wendig 2023 256 стр.

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🧠 Writing Mindset 🌱 Creative Sustainability 🛁 Creative Self-Care 🎨 Creative Play 🚧 Writer's Block

Immediate Fiction

— Jerry Cleaver • 2002

A no-jargon writing method that centers on conflict and emotion, and how to finish the stuck draft.

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✍️ Fiction Craft 🏗️ Story Structure ⚔️ Narrative Conflict 💔 Emotional Storytelling 🎬 Scene Writing

Immediate Fiction

A no-jargon writing method that centers on conflict and emotion, and how to finish the stuck draft.

— Jerry Cleaver 2002 304 стр.

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✍️ Fiction Craft 🏗️ Story Structure ⚔️ Narrative Conflict 💔 Emotional Storytelling 🎬 Scene Writing

New Startup Mindset

— Sandra Shpilberg • 2021

Ten shifts that swap venture capital and expertise for customer funding and a beginner's advantage.

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🌱 Beginner's Advantage 🚀 Startup Bootstrapping 🧠 Founder Mindset 🎯 Deep Work 🔥 Burnout Prevention

New Startup Mindset

Ten shifts that swap venture capital and expertise for customer funding and a beginner's advantage.

— Sandra Shpilberg 2021 216 стр.

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🌱 Beginner's Advantage 🚀 Startup Bootstrapping 🧠 Founder Mindset 🎯 Deep Work 🔥 Burnout Prevention

Description

— Monica Wood • 1995

Description isn't decoration: the craft of building a world readers can see, hear, and feel.

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🛠️ Fiction Craft 🖊️ Descriptive Writing ⚖️ Showing Vs Telling 👁️ Point Of View 💬 Dialogue Craft

Description

Description isn't decoration: the craft of building a world readers can see, hear, and feel.

— Monica Wood 1995 176 стр.

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🛠️ Fiction Craft 🖊️ Descriptive Writing ⚖️ Showing Vs Telling 👁️ Point Of View 💬 Dialogue Craft

The House That Cleans Itself

— Mindy Starns Clark • 2007

For chronic mess-makers: stop changing your habits, and start changing your house instead.

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📦 Home Organization 🗑️ Decluttering 🏠 Environmental Design 🧹 Cleaning Routines ⚡ Efficient Cleaning

The House That Cleans Itself

For chronic mess-makers: stop changing your habits, and start changing your house instead.

— Mindy Starns Clark 2007 242 стр.

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📦 Home Organization 🗑️ Decluttering 🏠 Environmental Design 🧹 Cleaning Routines ⚡ Efficient Cleaning

Dynamic Characters

— Nancy Kress • 1998

Before you outline another scene, ask what your character fears. The answer is your plot.

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🖊️ Fiction Writing 🎭 Character Development 👁️ Show Don't Tell 🧠 Internal Conflict 💬 Dialogue Craft

Dynamic Characters

Before you outline another scene, ask what your character fears. The answer is your plot.

— Nancy Kress 1998 264 стр.

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🖊️ Fiction Writing 🎭 Character Development 👁️ Show Don't Tell 🧠 Internal Conflict 💬 Dialogue Craft

You Can't Make This Stuff Up

— Lee Gutkind • 2012

True stories with a novelist's power: the craft, the ethics, and where you must never invent.

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📝 Creative Nonfiction ✍️ Narrative Craft 🎬 Scene Building 🔍 Immersion Journalism ⚖️ Truth And Ethics

You Can't Make This Stuff Up

True stories with a novelist's power: the craft, the ethics, and where you must never invent.

— Lee Gutkind 2012 288 стр.

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📝 Creative Nonfiction ✍️ Narrative Craft 🎬 Scene Building 🔍 Immersion Journalism ⚖️ Truth And Ethics

The Marshall Plan For Novel Writing

— Evan Marshall • 1998

Turn one crisis into a full novel: three acts, three shocks, a synopsis that sells.

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🖋️ Novel Writing 🏗️ Story Structure 📋 Plotting Methods 📚 Genre Fiction 👁️ Point Of View

The Marshall Plan For Novel Writing

Turn one crisis into a full novel: three acts, three shocks, a synopsis that sells.

— Evan Marshall 1998 287 стр.

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🖋️ Novel Writing 🏗️ Story Structure 📋 Plotting Methods 📚 Genre Fiction 👁️ Point Of View

Plot Perfect

— Paula Munier • 2014

Build novels scene by scene, using theme as your compass and emotional rhythm as your engine.

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🏗️ Story Structure 🎬 Scene Craft 🧭 Theme-Driven Fiction ⏱️ Narrative Pacing 🎭 Character Arcs

Plot Perfect

Build novels scene by scene, using theme as your compass and emotional rhythm as your engine.

— Paula Munier 2014 288 стр.

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🏗️ Story Structure 🎬 Scene Craft 🧭 Theme-Driven Fiction ⏱️ Narrative Pacing 🎭 Character Arcs

Designing Products People Love

— Scott Hurff • 2015

Most products fail in their empty and error states: a playbook for designing all five.

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🎨 Product Design 🖥️ Ux Design 🔍 Customer Research 🛠️ Prototyping 🧠 Behavioral Design

Designing Products People Love

Most products fail in their empty and error states: a playbook for designing all five.

— Scott Hurff 2015 321 стр.

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🎨 Product Design 🖥️ Ux Design 🔍 Customer Research 🛠️ Prototyping 🧠 Behavioral Design

How to Grow a Novel

— Sol Stein • 1999

The editor's craft playbook: what makes readers abandon a novel, and how to keep them turning pages.

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📝 Fiction Craft 👁️ Showing Vs Telling 💬 Dialogue Craft 👤 Character Development 🚪 Story Openings

How to Grow a Novel

The editor's craft playbook: what makes readers abandon a novel, and how to keep them turning pages.

— Sol Stein 1999 288 стр.

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📝 Fiction Craft 👁️ Showing Vs Telling 💬 Dialogue Craft 👤 Character Development 🚪 Story Openings

Million Dollar Outlines

— David Farland • 2013

An outlining method that pressure-tests your plot, designed to sell a novel on proposal.

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📐 Story Structure 🧠 Reader Psychology 💰 Commercial Fiction ⚙️ Plot Mechanics 📋 Outlining Method

Million Dollar Outlines

An outlining method that pressure-tests your plot, designed to sell a novel on proposal.

— David Farland 2013 234 стр.

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📐 Story Structure 🧠 Reader Psychology 💰 Commercial Fiction ⚙️ Plot Mechanics 📋 Outlining Method

Creating Characters

— Dwight V. Swain • 1990

Characters are built, not found. The nuts-and-bolts system for creating people readers believe in.

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🖋️ Fiction Craft 🎭 Character Development 🧠 Writing Psychology 📚 Classic Writing Guides ⚙️ Story Mechanics

Creating Characters

Characters are built, not found. The nuts-and-bolts system for creating people readers believe in.

— Dwight V. Swain 1990 208 стр.

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🖋️ Fiction Craft 🎭 Character Development 🧠 Writing Psychology 📚 Classic Writing Guides ⚙️ Story Mechanics

Presentations in Action

— Jerry Weissman • 2011

Eighty lessons from master presenters: why you, not your slides, should own the room.

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🎤 Presentation Skills 💼 Business Communication 📖 Story Structure 👁️ Visual Storytelling 👥 Audience Engagement

Presentations in Action

Eighty lessons from master presenters: why you, not your slides, should own the room.

— Jerry Weissman 2011 188 стр.

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🎤 Presentation Skills 💼 Business Communication 📖 Story Structure 👁️ Visual Storytelling 👥 Audience Engagement

Beginnings, Middles & Ends

— Nancy Kress • 1992

Three pages to lose an editor: a framework for beginnings, middles, and endings that deliver.

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📖 Fiction Craft 🏗 Story Structure 📈 Plot Development 🎭 Character Arcs 🪝 Opening Hooks

Beginnings, Middles & Ends

Three pages to lose an editor: a framework for beginnings, middles, and endings that deliver.

— Nancy Kress 1992 149 стр.

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📖 Fiction Craft 🏗 Story Structure 📈 Plot Development 🎭 Character Arcs 🪝 Opening Hooks

Life Skills

— Chicago Tribune • 2012

Fix a leak, fold a fitted sheet, handle a fender-bender: the life guide you never got.

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🧭 Adulting Guide 🔧 Home Maintenance 🍽️ Social Etiquette 🆘 Emergency Preparedness 🏕️ Outdoor Skills

Life Skills

Fix a leak, fold a fitted sheet, handle a fender-bender: the life guide you never got.

— Chicago Tribune 2012 100 стр.

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🧭 Adulting Guide 🔧 Home Maintenance 🍽️ Social Etiquette 🆘 Emergency Preparedness 🏕️ Outdoor Skills

A Dirty Guide to a Clean Home

— Melissa Dilkes Pateras • 2023

The unfussy guide to a clean home: vinegar, baking soda, and small wins over marathon scrubs.

3.92

350

🧹 Housekeeping 📦 Home Organization 🧘 Anti-Perfectionism 🧪 DIY Cleaning Products 💧 Stain Removal

A Dirty Guide to a Clean Home

The unfussy guide to a clean home: vinegar, baking soda, and small wins over marathon scrubs.

— Melissa Dilkes Pateras 2023 256 стр.

3.92

350 оценок

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How to Drag a Body and Other Safety Tips You Hope to Never Need

— Judith Matloff • 2020

A war reporter's field manual for emergencies most people never train for, until it's too late.

3.51

390

🚨 Emergency Preparedness 👀 Situational Awareness 🛡️ Personal Safety 🩹 First Aid Basics 🔒 Digital Security

How to Drag a Body and Other Safety Tips You Hope to Never Need

A war reporter's field manual for emergencies most people never train for, until it's too late.

— Judith Matloff 2020 302 стр.

3.51

390 оценок

🚨 Emergency Preparedness 👀 Situational Awareness 🛡️ Personal Safety 🩹 First Aid Basics 🔒 Digital Security

The Pocket Guide to Mischief

— Bart King • 2008

From classroom pranks to culinary capers: the handbook for causing precise, harmless chaos.

3.92

106

🃏 Practical Jokes 🎬 Pop Culture Trivia 💬 Wordplay And Puns 😂 Teen Humor 💩 Gross-Out Humor

The Pocket Guide to Mischief

From classroom pranks to culinary capers: the handbook for causing precise, harmless chaos.

— Bart King 2008 272 стр.

3.92

106 оценок

🃏 Practical Jokes 🎬 Pop Culture Trivia 💬 Wordplay And Puns 😂 Teen Humor 💩 Gross-Out Humor

Etsy-preneurship

— Jason Malinak • 2012

From first sale to tax season: the Etsy seller's complete business manual, no MBA required.

3.80

311

🧶 Handmade Business 🛒 Etsy Selling 💼 Side Hustle Guides 💰 Pricing Strategies 📊 Small Business Finance

Etsy-preneurship

From first sale to tax season: the Etsy seller's complete business manual, no MBA required.

— Jason Malinak 2012 206 стр.

3.80

311 оценок

🧶 Handmade Business 🛒 Etsy Selling 💼 Side Hustle Guides 💰 Pricing Strategies 📊 Small Business Finance

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