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A list of ten of the most creatively written books dealing with the writing process
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The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey
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Dipa Sanatani (Goodreads Author)
4.59 avg rating — 128 ratings
score: 600,
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Exercises in Style: 65th Anniversary Edition
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4.05 avg rating — 12,674 ratings
score: 499,
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How to Read
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Eckhard Gerdes (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings
score: 400,
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4 people voted
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Manifestoes of Surrealism
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3.83 avg rating — 3,263 ratings
score: 293,
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Architectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing
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4.04 avg rating — 106 ratings
score: 197,
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The Marquis De Sade's Elements of Style
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4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 195,
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Plot Fiction like the Masters
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Terry Richard Bazes (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Maintenant 9: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art
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Peter Carlaftes (Editor)
4.55 avg rating — 20 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Soul of Place: A Creative Writing Workbook: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci
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Linda Lappin (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 48 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Practicalities
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3.93 avg rating — 1,210 ratings
score: 100,
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Writing and the Body in Motion: Awakening Voice through Somatic Practice
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Cheryl Pallant (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Sex Trump and Gin: Plus One Hundred Thousand Other Words and Phrases Chosen Mostly at Random
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 100,
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Title to Come
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Kevin E. Spall (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 100,
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No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-stress, High-velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days
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3.84 avg rating — 7,290 ratings
score: 100,
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Creative Writing Vocabulary Toolkit: A Writer’s Handbook for Writing Descriptive and Vivid Prose (The Author’s Toolkit Series)
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Mason Carter (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 100,
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Live. Love. Leo.
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Sea-God's Herb: Reviews and Essays
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John Domini (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Style is the Rocket: and Other Essays on Writing
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4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 99,
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For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction (Northwestern University Press Paperbacks)
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3.95 avg rating — 725 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Death Carries a Camcorder: Essays on fantasy writing
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4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 98,
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Write Like the Masters: Emulating the Best of Hemingway, Faulkner, Salinger, and Others
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William Cane (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 162 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Critifiction: Postmodern Essays
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4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings
score: 96,
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Take Joy: The Writers Guide To Loving The Craft
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Jane Yolen (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 527 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries
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4.17 avg rating — 1,109 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Fiction and the Figures of Life
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4.09 avg rating — 313 ratings
score: 92,
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Anti-Story: An Anthology of Experimental Fiction
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Philip Stevick (Editor)
3.88 avg rating — 144 ratings
score: 91,
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Literary Yoga
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 90,
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Nov 16, 2014 09:16AM
Dada! We could use more of that in contemporary literature. It's like the art world and the writing world split around that time.
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