DebNance
Deb Nance

Writing

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#2
S is for Story: A Writer's Alphabet
S is for Story: A Writer's Alphabet
  • Esther Hershenhorn
41 read
#3
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
  • Anne Lamott
4.18214 reads
#4
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The Literary Ladies' Guide to the Writing Life

The Literary Ladies' Guide to the Writing Life
  • Nava Atlas
  • Sellers Publishing
31 read
#5
Trial by Journal
Trial by Journal
  • Kate Klise
4.339 reads
#6
This Is Not a Book
This Is Not a Book
  • Keri Smith
4.177 reads
#7
Write This Book: a do-it-yourself mystery
Write This Book: a do-it-yourself mystery
  • Pseudonymous Bosch
3.53 reads
#8
The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language
The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language
  • Natalie Goldberg
4.52 reads
#9
How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times
How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times
  • Roy Peter Clark
45 reads
#10
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Old Friend from Far Away

Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir
  • Natalie Goldberg
4.52 reads
#11
Take Joy
Take Joy
  • Jane Yolen
3.52 reads
#12
Between You & Me
Between You & Me
  • Mary Norris
3.3519 reads
#13
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Instant Happy Journal

Instant Happy Journal: 365 Days of Inspiration, Gratitude, and Joy
  • Karen Salmansohn
41 read
#14
Big Magic
Big Magic
  • Elizabeth Gilbert
3.79178 reads
#15
Good prose
Good prose
  • Tracy Kidder
  • Richard Todd
33 reads
#16
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1000 Journals Project

1000 Journals Project
  • Someguy
3.333 reads
#17
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
  • Vivian Gornick
32 reads
#18
This Year You Write Your Novel
This Year You Write Your Novel
  • Walter Mosley
2.8910 reads
#19
How the Light Gets in: Writing as a Spiritual Practice
How the Light Gets in: Writing as a Spiritual Practice
  • Pat Schneider
41 read
#20
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The Pocket Muse

The Pocket Muse: Ideas and Inspirations for Writing
  • Monica Wood
31 read
#21
Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home: Life on the Page
Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home: Life on the Page
  • Lynn Freed
31 read
#22
Writing magic
Writing magic
  • Gail Carson Levine
3.335 reads
#23
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
  • Natalie Goldberg
3.9358 reads
#24
From Where You Dream
From Where You Dream
  • Robert Olen Butler
31 read
#25
Table of Contents: From Breakfast With Anita Diamant to Dessert With James Patterson - A Generous Helping of Recipes, Writings, and Insights from Today's Bestselling Authors
Table of Contents: From Breakfast With Anita Diamant to Dessert With James Patterson - A Generous Helping of Recipes, Writings, and Insights from Today's Bestselling Authors
  • Judy Gelman
31 read
#26
A Woman's Path: Women's Best Spiritual Travel Writing
A Woman's Path: Women's Best Spiritual Travel Writing
  • Jennifer Leo
01 read
#27
Escaping Into the Open
Escaping Into the Open
  • Elizabeth Berg
32 reads
#28
Words Fail Me
Words Fail Me
  • Patricia T. O'Conner
02 reads
#29
Living Color: Painting, Writing, and the Bones of Seeing
Living Color: Painting, Writing, and the Bones of Seeing
  • Natalie Goldberg
41 read
#30
The Practice of Poetry : Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach
The Practice of Poetry : Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach
    42 reads
    #31
    Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity
    Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity
    • Ray Bradbury
    3.7655 reads
    #32
    Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor
    Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor
    • Lynda Barry
    4.617 reads
    #33
    The Art of Memoir
    The Art of Memoir
    • Mary Karr
    3.915 reads
    #34
    Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America
    Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America
    • Natalie Goldberg
    32 reads
    #35
    The Freedom Writers Diary
    The Freedom Writers Diary
    • Erin Gruwell
    • Zlata Filipović
    • The Freedom Writers
    3.2314 reads
    #36
    A Room of Her Own: Women's Personal Spaces
    A Room of Her Own: Women's Personal Spaces
    • Chris Casson Madden
    • Jennifer Levy
    31 read
    #37
    A Moveable Feast
    A Moveable Feast
    • Ernest Hemingway
    3.93137 reads
    #38
    Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft
    Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft
    • Bill Moyers
    01 read
    #39
    Searching for Your Soul: Writers of Many Faiths Share Their Personal Stories of Spiritual Discovery
    Searching for Your Soul: Writers of Many Faiths Share Their Personal Stories of Spiritual Discovery
      21 read
      #40
      True Notebooks
      True Notebooks
      • Mark Salzman
      43 reads
      #41
      The Sound of Paper
      The Sound of Paper
      • Julia Cameron
      2.53 reads
      #42
      Without Stopping
      Without Stopping
      • Paul Bowles
      32 reads
      #43
      The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life
      The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life
      • Natalie Goldberg
      41 read
      #44
      From Cover to Cover
      From Cover to Cover
      • Kathleen T. Horning
      31 read
      #45
      The Story Cure: A Book Doctor's Pain-Free Guide to Finishing Your Novel or Memoir
      The Story Cure: A Book Doctor's Pain-Free Guide to Finishing Your Novel or Memoir
      • Dinty W. Moore
      31 read
      #46
      Our Story Begins: Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids
      Our Story Begins: Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids
      • Elissa Brent Weissman
      • Kwame Alexander
      • Tom Angleberger
      • Kathi Appelt
      • Ashley Bryan
      • Tim Federle
      • Candace Fleming
      • Marla Frazee
      • Chris Gall
      • Alex Gino
      • Chris Grabenstein
      • Gordon Korman
      • Jarrett J. Krosoczka
      • Thanhha Lai
      • Peter Lerangis
      • Gail Carson Levine
      • Grace Lin
      • Yuyi Morales
      • Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
      • R.J. Palacio
      • Linda Sue Park
      • Dan Santat
      • Brian Selznick
      • Cynthia Leitich Smith
      • Rita Williams-Garcia
      • Eric Rohmann
      41 read
      #47
      Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World
      Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World
      • Nell Stevens
      2.53 reads
      #48
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      Journaling Toward Wholeness

      Journaling Toward Wholeness: A 28-Day Plan to Develop a Journaling Practice
      • Molly Totoro
      51 read
      #49
      Some Writer!
      Some Writer!
      • Melissa Sweet
      52 reads
      #50
      The Violet Hour
      The Violet Hour
      • Katie Roiphe
      32 reads
      #51
      Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma
      Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma
      • Melanie Brooks
      31 read
      #52
      Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo
      Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo
      • Grant Faulkner
      33 reads
      #53
      What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
      What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
      • Haruki Murakami
      • Philip Gabriel (Translator)
      3.85339 reads
      #54
      Kid Authors: True Tales of Childhood from Famous Writers
      Kid Authors: True Tales of Childhood from Famous Writers
      • David Stabler
      4.52 reads
      #55
      Start Where You Are
      Start Where You Are
      • Meera Lee Patel
      41 read
      #56
      Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books
      Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books
      • Leah Price
      31 read
      #57
      Art and Fear
      Art and Fear
      • David Bayles
      • Ted Orland
      4.1439 reads
      #58
      Don't Pigeonhole Me!: Two Decades of the Mo Willems Sketchbook
      Don't Pigeonhole Me!: Two Decades of the Mo Willems Sketchbook
      • Mo Willems
      41 read
      #59
      It's Never Too Late to Begin Again
      It's Never Too Late to Begin Again
      • Julia Cameron
      • Emma Lively
      4.52 reads
      #60
      The War of Art
      The War of Art
      • Steven Pressfield
      3.78234 reads
      #61
      Stein on Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies
      Stein on Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies
      • Sol Stein
      4.0914 reads
      #62
      Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies
      Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies
      • Kathleen Krull
      51 read
      #63
      Emily Climbs
      Emily Climbs
      • Lucy Maud Montgomery
      4.1323 reads
      #64
      The Wander Society
      The Wander Society
      • Keri Smith
      3.677 reads
      #65
      Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
      Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
      • Austin Kleon
      4.2788 reads
      #66
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      The Forest for the Trees

      The Forest for the Trees
      • Betsy Lerner
      3.53 reads
      #67
      My Great Grandfather and I
      My Great Grandfather and I
      • James Krüss
      41 read
      #68
      Brave the Page
      Brave the Page
      • Rebecca Stern
      42 reads
      #69
      The Whale: A Love Story
      The Whale: A Love Story
      • Mark Beauregard
      3.53 reads
      #70
      More to the Story
      More to the Story
      • Hena Khan
      4.55 reads
      #71
      The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
      The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
      • Stephen Fry
      4.0322 reads
      #72
      Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
      Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
        4.3311 reads
        #73
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        How Your Story Sets You Free

        How Your Story Sets You Free
        • Heather Box
        • Julian Mocine-McQueen
        32 reads
        #74
        Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers
        Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers
        • James Gulliver Hancock
        3.53 reads
        #76
        A Writer's Paris: A Guided Journey For The Creative Soul
        A Writer's Paris: A Guided Journey For The Creative Soul
        • Eric Maisel
        31 read
        #77
        Writers & Lovers
        Writers & Lovers
        • Lily King
        3.9128 reads
        #78
        Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
        Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
        • Benjamin Dreyer
        4.1832 reads
        #79
        By the Book
        By the Book
        • Pamela Paul
        3.85 reads
        #80
        The Writing Life
        The Writing Life
        • Annie Dillard
        4.238 reads
        #81
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        Improv for Writers

        Improv for Writers: 10 Secrets to Help Novelists and Screenwriters Bypass Writer's Block and Generate Infinite Ideas
        • Jorjeana Marie
        41 read
        #82
        Draft No. 4
        Draft No. 4
        • John McPhee
        3.818 reads
        #83
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        Letters to a Young Writer

        Letters to a Young Writer
        • Colum McCann
        3.338 reads
        #84
        Devotions
        Devotions
        • Mary Oliver
        4.3648 reads
        #85
        100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write
        100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write
        • Sarah Ruhl
        3.57 reads
        #86
        A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life
        A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life
        • George Saunders
        4.6277 reads
        #87
        See You On Down the Road: A Retirement Journal
        See You On Down the Road: A Retirement Journal
        • Leon Hale
        41 read
        #88
        Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
        Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
        • Kate Douglas Wiggin
        3.5326 reads
        #89
        Making Comics
        Making Comics
        • Lynda Barry
        4.67 reads
        #90
        The Book of Form and Emptiness
        The Book of Form and Emptiness
        • Ruth Ozeki
        4.0562 reads
        #91
        If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
        If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
          3.5612 reads
          #92
          Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected
          Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected
          • Nnedi Okorafor
          4.113 reads
          #93
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          What's So Special about Dickens?

          What's So Special about Dickens?
          • Michael Rosen
          41 read
          #94
          The Narnian
          The Narnian
          • Alan Jacobs
          3.754 reads
          #95
          Write for Your Life
          Write for Your Life
          • Anna Quindlen
          42 reads
          #96
          Writing Haiku: A Beginner's Guide to Composing Japanese Poetry
          Writing Haiku: A Beginner's Guide to Composing Japanese Poetry
          • Bruce Ross
          41 read
          #97
          Georges Perec
          Georges Perec
          • Georges Perec
          • Marc Lowenthal (Translator)
          3.674 reads
          #98
          Abdul's Story
          Abdul's Story
          • Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
          51 read
          #99
          Novelist as a Vocation
          Novelist as a Vocation
          • Haruki Murakami
          • Philip Gabriel (Translator)
          • Ted Goossen (Translator)
          3.6844 reads
          #100
          The Book of Goose
          The Book of Goose
          • Yiyun Li
          3.8134 reads
          #101
          Lasting Lines: 100 Poems and Poets That You Should Know
          Lasting Lines: 100 Poems and Poets That You Should Know
          • Jamie Grant
          31 read
          #102
          Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
          Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
          • Mason Currey
          3.5557 reads