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From one of America's most influential teachers, a collection of the best writing advice distilled from 50 language books - from Aristotle to Strunk and White.
With so many excellent writing guides lining bookstore shelves, it can be hard to know where to look for the best advice. Should you go with Natalie Goldberg or Anne Lamott? Maybe William Zinsser or Stephen King would be more appropriate. Then again, what about the classics - Strunk and White, or even Aristotle himself?
Thankfully, your search is over. In Murder Your Darlings, Roy Peter Clark, who has been a beloved and revered writing teacher to children and Pulitzer Prize winners alike for more than 30 years, has compiled a remarkable collection of more than 100 of the best writing tips from 50 of the best writing books of all time.
With a chapter devoted to each key strategy, Clark expands and contextualizes the original author's suggestions and offers anecdotes about how each one helped him or other writers sharpen their skills. An invaluable resource for writers of all kinds, Murder Your Darlings is an inspiring and edifying ode to the craft of writing.
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"What emerges is an all-encompassing guide to a life spent with words...Reading Clark is like sitting in on a conversational master class. Writer-readers will clamor for more." (Courtney Eathorne, Booklist)
"A party-popper of inspiration." (Mignon Fogarty, author of Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing)
"This book is magic. Open any page of Murder Your Darlings and dive in. You'll quickly find yourself pulled into Roy Peter Clark's folksy and gentle voice, and his distillation of the wisdom of more than 50 writing books. Through this appreciation, he opens the door to writing books ancient and modern, and to scores of inspiring strategies and tools. He zeroes in on the craft, but also the soul of writing - our voice and identity as writers, as well as our mission and purpose. Along the way, 'America's Writing Coach' encourages us with his greatest lesson - that we can all get better, every day. I am in love with Murder Your Darlings. This is the book I want to give to every writer." (Diana K. Sugg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, writing coach, and enterprise editor at The Baltimore Sun)
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In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, best-selling author Chuck Palahniuk shares stories and generous advice on what makes writing powerful and what makes for powerful writing. With advice grounded in years of careful study and a keenly observed life, Palahniuk combines practical advice and concrete examples from beloved classics, his own books, and a "kitchen-table MFA" culled from an evolving circle of beloved authors and artists, with anecdotes, postcards from the road, and much more.
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Poetic Justice
- De Dave Green en 01-20-20
De: Chuck Palahniuk
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The Glamour of Grammar
- De: Roy Peter Clark
- Narrado por: Roy Peter Clark
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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Early in the history of English, glamour and grammar were the same word, linked to enchantment and magical spells. Now grammar brings to mind language bullies and bored-out-of-their-skulls students. Roy Peter Clark, one of America’s most influential writing teachers, wants to change that by putting the glamour back into grammar.
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Wasteful
- De ABID en 12-05-13
De: Roy Peter Clark
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How to Write Like a Writer
- A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding Your True Voice
- De: Thomas C. Foster
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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The New York Times bestselling author of the beloved classic How to Read Literature Like a Professor teaches you how to write everything from a report for your community association to a meaningful memoir in this masterful and engaging guide.
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One of the best writing books I have read
- De TJ Schreiber en 09-19-22
De: Thomas C. Foster
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Creating Character Arcs
- The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development
- De: K.M. Weiland
- Narrado por: Sonja Field
- Duración: 5 h y 7 m
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Have you written a story with an exciting concept and interesting characters - but it just isn't grabbing the attention of readers or agents? It's time to look deeper into the story beats that create realistic and compelling character arcs. Internationally published, award-winning novelist K.M. Weiland shares her acclaimed method for achieving memorable and moving character arcs in every book you write.
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Why We Read (Listen To) These Books
- De C. Deputy en 06-07-18
De: K.M. Weiland
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Dialogue
- The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen
- De: Robert McKee
- Narrado por: Robert McKee
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
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In Dialogue, Robert McKee offers in-depth analysis for how characters speak on the screen, on the stage, and on the page in believable and engaging ways. From Macbeth to Breaking Bad, McKee deconstructs key scenes to illustrate the strategies and techniques of dialogue. Dialogue applies a framework of incisive thinking to instruct the prospective writer on how to craft artful, impactful speech.
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Not suited for audio
- De Smith en 03-04-17
De: Robert McKee
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Story Genius
- How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
- De: Lisa Cron
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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It's every novelist's greatest fear: pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into writing hundreds of pages only to realize that their story has no sense of urgency, no internal logic, and so is a page-one rewrite. The prevailing wisdom in the writing community is that there are just two ways around this problem: pantsing (winging it) and plotting (focusing on the external plot).
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As a fantasy writer, this book was not for me.
- De Wendy en 01-10-21
De: Lisa Cron
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Writing for Emotional Impact
- Advanced Dramatic Techniques to Attract, Engage, and Fascinate the Reader from Beginning to End
- De: Karl Iglesias
- Narrado por: Karl Iglesias
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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There are three kinds of feelings when reading a story: boredom, interest, and wow! To become a successful writer, you must create the wow feeling on as many pages as possible, and this requires writing that engages the reader emotionally. In his best-selling book, screenwriter Karl Iglesias explored the working habits of A-list Hollywood scribes. Now, he breaks new ground by focusing on the psychology of the reader.
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Best audiobook by far for writing screenplays
- De FilmmakerSuperNova en 07-04-20
De: Karl Iglesias
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On Writing
- A Memoir of the Craft
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Stephen King, Joe Hill, Owen King
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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“Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen King’s On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King’s advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999—and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery.
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Who needs a print edition when King reads King?
- De Cather en 11-18-05
De: Stephen King
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Kill the Dog
- The First Book on Screenwriting to Tell You the Truth
- De: Paul Guyot
- Narrado por: Paul Guyot
- Duración: 7 h
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Every aspect of screenwriting is covered with an authority and credibility never seen in any book to come before. Told with honesty, humor, and vulnerability from the real-world perspective of a working, professional screenwriter, Kill the Dog reveals the secrets of what it takes to have a successful career as a Hollywood screenwriter.
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Not a lot learned. Here's a summary.
- De Samuel D R en 01-28-24
De: Paul Guyot
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On Writing and Worldbuilding - Volume I
- De: Timothy Hickson
- Narrado por: Larissa Thompson, Merphy Napier
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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Writing advice tends to be full of "rules" and "tips" which are either too broad to be helpful or outright wrong. In On Writing and Worldbuilding, we will discuss specific and applicable ideas to consider, from effective methods of delivering exposition and foreshadowing, to how communication, commerce, and control play into the fall of an empire.
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all hail mishka
- De M. M. en 03-25-21
De: Timothy Hickson
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The Uninhabitable Earth
- Life After Warming
- De: David Wallace-Wells
- Narrado por: David Wallace-Wells
- Duración: 9 h
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An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation’s Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it - the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action.
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Don’t read if you have depressive tendencies.
- De Ricky en 03-17-19
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Fifty-Two Stories
- 1883-1898
- De: Anton Chekhov, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrado por: Jim Frangione
- Duración: 20 h y 13 m
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From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and War and Peace: a lavish, masterfully rendered volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time.
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Better alternatives for Chekhov
- De Carol V. Macvey en 03-04-21
De: Anton Chekhov, y otros
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- Stryker
- 01-17-24
I have been reading sense I could,
I have been reading sense I could, from comic books , magazines, and then books, and I always wondered how this people do it, how do they have this stories in their heads, I get to visit them. Great book thank you
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- John Rothermel
- 11-14-21
Fascinating and useful
A culling of wisdoms about composition from about 200 years of working writers thinking about and writing on the subject.
N.B. I've been stumped on a book review for several weeks, but after two hours listening to this book, sentences for a "zero draft" started free-associating out of my unconscious.
Very well performed!
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- Mr D
- 02-19-23
Well done.
Not sure why there would be any negative reviews on this book. I found it interesting, enlightening, and thought provoking. In my mind, these are all the things you should reflect on, and have in your arsenal, as you objectively look at your own writing.
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- KellysHero718
- 10-14-21
Much More Than I Expected
A longtime student of writing books who writes writing books delivers the best of writing advice from the past 3,000 years. Exceptionally well researched with a lively delivery, a perfect blend of erudition, humor, and useful information.
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- Patrick N
- 02-16-23
So good
I’ve listened to this gem twice, and will surely be back many more times. Mr. Clark has written something important here; something that will endure and live on.
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- MarkR
- 09-25-21
fantastic work
fantastic work for which it is easy to follow up because he gives so many references where you can find fantastic instructions and writing. his overview of these works does not show all of the unique insights that he provides which are fantastic. I am so glad I picked this one up. (this was all voice to text and Amazon does not seem to capitalize in this app.)
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- Thomas A. Siewert
- 10-12-21
Good sourcebook for writing technique
Excellent book on writing. My only complaint is that, at times I wish I had the print version instead of the audio book.
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- Brian Welch
- 01-23-23
Excellent
Extremely helpful and insightful guide to writing effectively. Tips abound in this gold mine of information, covering both fiction and non-fiction. Examples and explanations are top notch. Narration is engaging and clear. I will use much of what I leaned in this audiobook. I would recommend it to anyone who writes, no matter their experience level.
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- Navelgazing Writer
- 06-22-21
Loved This SO Much.!
_Murder Your Darlings_ is one of the newest additions to the Writing Life. Filled with fantastic information and quotes from dozens of writers throughout history, I've never read anything so comprehensive... and I have read a LOT of writing books; it is my favorite tactic towards procrastination of my own writing.
This addressed the other writers' foibles and even evils, but embraced the great information they imparted. As many have said, great art has been created from the most abhorrent people who ever lived.
That Clark was able to recount so many incredible writers and their most profound thoughts and advice is a tribute to his book collection and power of retention. He said he still had 100 books to go through and I really hope he will do a _Murder Your Darlings 2_.
If you are an aspiring writer or a writer of bestsellers, I believe all of us can find great information in this book.
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- Kenneth L. Wadlin
- 01-23-22
Excellent Review ofWriting Books
Provides an excellent review of writing books. Next step is to pick from his list in areas where you need help and read them.
The author has a rye sense of humor that makes an interesting read.
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