Writing

Sort of a guide to writing guides, this collection of writing advice from luminaries across history, like Aristotle,…

Hand-painted drawings and insightful prompts designed to align your creativity and mindfulness with the cycles of the…

In My Bookstore our greatest authors write about the pleasure, guidance, and support that their favorite bookstores…

The blank page or empty journal can be intimidating. This journal dispenses with that problem, providing prompts and…

In this Wooden Books installment, creative writing and English professor Amy Jones shares her wisdom on how to best tell…

The world is on fire! So tell your story.  Things are scary right now. We’re all being swept along by a tidal wave of…

There's a typewriter set up for anyone to use in Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Every day people sit down…

On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity, and its warmth of style. It is a book for anybody…

Being in business involves a ton of writing, even if you don't think of yourself as a writer. Just think about all the…

Conveying your new genius idea to others can be tricky. This book walks you through the different techniques and steps…

Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style combines Kurt Vonnegut's legendary expertise with former student Suzanne…

A memoir of life before, during, and immediately after the years spent in a maximum-security prison. Illiterate at the…

An interactive workbook for transforming your brilliant idea for a novel or rough manuscript into a stunning,…

A guide to robustly plotting your bestselling novel. Page-turners rely on a specific range of storytelling formulas. Use…

This pocket guide to getting your narrative hook to be more…hooky. Author and professor Amy Jones aim is to teach the…

Poet, musician, and songwriter Octavia Wynne will wash away some of the poetic doubts of the poetic debutant. Here,…

In the early 1900s, Ethel Payne was the daughter of a Pullman Porter with an ear for good stories. She grew up to be…

Rebecca Solnit's keen eye and lyrical writing, applied to political and cultural critique, never miss their mark. Her…

A tough and not so glamorous look into the book publishing industry, showing us how to have more sustainable…

Featuring witticisms from Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and Jane Austen’s other writings, this…

Based on the canonical methodology created for screenwriters, learn to make your novel into a page turner as gripping as…

In this existential romp through the life and times of the world's most polarizing punctuation mark, Cecelia Watson…

In So You Want to Publish a Book?, Anne Trubek, founder of Belt Publishing, demystifies the publishing process. This…

From the celebrated Ursala K. Le Guin, this completely revised edition of her classic book has been updated to address…