FictionThe original and template for the romance phrase book: a categorized bank of emotional and sensual language from the 1980s. The phrase-book problems are magnified here by genre and age, ready-made phrasing pushes toward the very cliche romance is mocked…
BusinessIf your characters spend the whole book sighing and nodding, this booklet of physical reactions by body part is built for you. The problem is real, but the Emotion Thesaurus does the same job with far more craft context, and…
BusinessA booklet of a thousand vigorous verbs sold as a self-editing aid. Strong verbs do tighten prose, but a thesaurus does the same for free and better, and a flat list can nudge you toward overwrought, attention-seeking choices. A sound…
WritingA specialized vocabulary reference for romance and erotica writers, aimed at the real problem of finding varied, tonally right language for intimate scenes. A practical palette for working genre authors, narrow by nature, supplying vocabulary instead of scene craft, and…
WritingMost usage guides are dry; this one is the exception. A Washington Post copy chief brings an opinionated, funny voice and a working editor's judgment to the tricky cases the stylebooks dodge. Opinionated instead of authoritative, a complement to a…
FictionA worldbuilding guide that works on the craft side instead of the encyclopedia side: how to make a world vivid, memorable, and woven into character, theme, and plot. A solid corrective to worlds that are flat or over-stuffed, built on…
WritingSome books teach you to plot or punctuate; this one teaches you how to keep going. Goldberg's idea of writing practice, getting words down to get past the paralyzing inner critic, has freed writers for decades, carried by a voice…
FictionAn accessible beginner's overview of SF and fantasy, surveying the core challenges, world-building and genre convention especially, and orienting a new writer in what the genres demand. A competent foundational primer, general and beginner-oriented, sitting among many similar guides without…
WritingRhetorical instruction paired with model readings, on the principle that reading closely is how you learn to write. It lands far better for composition students than for novelists or freelancers, and its documentation guidance depends on the edition. A capable,…
FictionThe rigor of a real writing workshop for the writer working alone: more than a hundred purposeful exercises with self-critique, plus eight complete short stories as analyzed models. One of the most developmental craft books going for a disciplined, self-directed…
FictionA worthwhile attempt at one of writing's most elusive and prized qualities: the distinctive signature that makes a writer's work recognizably their own. Its real value is treating voice as something you can deliberately develop instead of a mysterious gift,…
FictionThe broadest of the Writer's Digest anthologies, surveying the whole of fiction craft, character, plot, structure, viewpoint, dialogue, revision, from many contributors. A genuinely useful beginner's map, but covering everything means each element gets only a survey. A sampler and…
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