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• NaNoWriMo

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  National Novel Writing Month began in 1999 as a daunting but straightforward challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel during the thirty days of November. NaNoWriMo is a website, a community, a wildly ambitious writing event — and so much more!

• The Maeve Binchy Writers' Club

  Binchy, Maeve, 1940-2012

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  "The Maeve Binchy Writers' Club gives a unique insight into how a No.1 bestselling author writes. Inspired by a course run by the National College of Ireland, it comprises 20 letters from Maeve, offering advice, tips and her own wonderfully witty…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (and Their Muses)

  DeFino, Terri-Lynne

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  "A whimsical, moving novel about a retirement home for literary legends who spar, conjure up new stories, and almost magically change the lives of the people around them. Alfonse Carducci was a literary giant who lived his life to excess, lovers,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Ally, How Do You Write a Book?

  Carter, Ally

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  Have you always wanted to write a book, but don't know where to start? Or maybe you're really great at writing the first few chapters . . . but you never quite make it to the end? Or do you finally have a finished manuscript, but you're not sure…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• First You Write a Sentence

  the Elements of Reading, Writing...and Life

  Moran, Joe, 1970-

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  "The sentence is the common ground where every writer walks. A good sentence can be written (and read) by anyone if we simply give it the gift of our time, and it is as close as most of us will get to making something truly beautiful. Using minimal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bird by Bird

  Some Instructions on Writing and Life

  Lamott, Anne

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  "If you have ever wondered what it takes to be a writer, what it means to be a writer, what the contents of your school lunches said about what your parents were really like, this book's for you. From faith, love, and grace to pain, jealousy, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Writing Down the Bones

  Goldberg, Natalie

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  "This new edition, which marks almost twenty years since the original book's publication, includes a new preface in which Goldberg expresses her trademark enthusiasm for writing practice, as well as a depth of appreciation for the process that has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Can You Ever Forgive Me?

  Memoirs of a Literary Forger

  Israel, Lee

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  "Before turning to her life of crime-running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in a Greenwich Village bar and even dodging the FBI, Lee Israel had a legitimate career as an author of biographies. Her first book on Tallulah Bankhead…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Can You Ever Forgive Me?

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  "Lee Israel made her living in the 1970s and 1980s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. Though Lee Israel has undeniable profiling skills, her work has grown stale and hackneyed,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Peaceful Piano

  Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918

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• Freedom Writers

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  "Hilary Swank stars in this story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed a voice. Swank plays Erin Gruwell, the real-life teacher at Long Beach's Wilson High who inspired her students to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Finding Forrester

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  "Jamal Wallace is a talented young basketball player in New York City whose secret passion is writing. After an accidental meeting, Forrester, a reclusive novelist, becomes Jamal's unlikely mentor. Soon, both men learn lessons from each other about…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Words for Pictures

  the Art and Business of Writing Comics and Graphic Novels

  Bendis, Brian Michael

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  "One of the most popular writers in modern comics, Brian Michael Bendis reveals the tools and techniques he and other top creators use to create some of the most popular comic book and graphic novel stories of all time. Words for Pictures shows…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Art of Comic Book Writing

  the Definitive Guide to Outlining, Scripting, and Pitching Your Sequential Art Stories

  Kneece, Mark

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  "With this latest book in the SCAD Creative Essentials series from the esteemed Savannah College of Art and Design, comics writer and instructor Mark Kneece gives aspiring comic book writers the essential tools they need to write scripts for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seinfeld. Seasons 1 & 2

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  The story of a kooky jerk comedian/writer and his kooky jerk friends as they live their lives in New York City.

• The Shadow of the Wind

  Ruiz Zafón, Carlos, 1964-

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  A boy journeys through the secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona in search of a mysterious author whose books are as dangerous to own as they are impossible to forget.