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Writer Emergency Pack
Buy On AmazonA nonprofit developed this pack to help writers get unstuck. While it’s aimed at fiction writers, the Writer Emergency Pack can help any story/plot. Writer Emergency Pack is a deck of cards full of useful ideas to help you when your story gets stuck. It’s the creation of screenwriter John August and his company, the same team behind the apps Highland, Bronson Watermarker, and Weekend Read. This product began as a successful Kickstarter. Because the Writer Emergency Packs have been successful, many have been donated to schools by this nonprofit. Great for kids and adults who are open to searching for a better story.
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Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Greely
Buy At AmazonLucy Grealy’s childhood cancer left her with a facial disfigurement. For everyone who has ever felt inadequate, Autobiography of a Face provides an unsentimental experience that challenges our own feelings of not measuring up. A ground-breaking memoir of self. Lucy Grealy (1963-2002) was an award-winning poet and a memoirist. In addition to Autobiography of a Face, she was the author of the essay collection As Seen on TV: Provocations.
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The War of Art: Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Buy At AmazonIf you’ve ever spent more time thinking about accomplishing a creative task like writing, than actually writing, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles might just be your path to productivity. Overcome the roadblocks that you yourself place and release the creative artist within. Why is there a naysayer within? How can we avoid the roadblocks of any creative endeavor-be it starting up a dream business venture, writing a novel, or painting a masterpiece?
Bestselling novelist Steven Pressfield identifies the enemy that every one of us must face, outlines a battle plan to conquer this internal foe, then pinpoints just how to achieve the greatest success.
The War of Art emphasizes the resolve needed to recognize and overcome the obstacles of ambition and then effectively shows how to reach the highest level of creative discipline. While we may bemoan all the obstacles in our path to success, it’s comforting to know that we can remove most of them because we placed them in our path.
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Free E-Book ‘The Recession Proof Writer’
Download At Freelance Writers DenEnjoy this free eBook. ‘The Recession-Proof Writer teaches you to how to build a freelance writing business. It’s from the folks at the Freelance Writer’s Den, so you know it’s good. Provide and confirm your email address to grab a FREE copy of The Recession-Proof Freelancer in the format of your choice. It unpacks life lessons from a successful freelancer, and gives you a simple system of key actions you need to take, to earn a freelance living in this uncertain moment. This is an affiliate link. If you join we earn a small commission at no cost to you. Thank you for shopping.
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The Situation and the Story: The Art of the Personal Narrative
Buy At AmazonWhat’s the difference between what happened (the situation) and the story? Vivian Gornick supplies mentor texts, examples, and analysis for the writer of memoir and narrative nonfiction. Write with meaning and entertain your reader. This one is bedrock for the writer of creative nonfiction. Taking us on a reading tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century, and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, or Marguerite Duras.
