Page | Topic | Author | Link |
1 | Read and write | Stephen King | |
2 | Art & Fear | David Bayles and Ted Orland | |
7 | failure | J. K. Rowling | |
8 | This American Life | ||
National Geographic Traveler | |||
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern | |||
9 | goal contents theory | ||
12 | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
Sisyphus | Albert Camus | ||
14 | Fast Company | ||
15 | regrets | Bronnie Ware | |
18 | limited time to write | Jodi Picoult | |
19 | The Artist’s Way | Julia Cameron | |
21 | shitty first drafts | Anne Lamott | |
25 | Fight Club | Chuck Palahniuk | |
26 | The Artist's Way | Julia Cameron | |
Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden | ||
28 | Barnes & Noble | ||
Five Star notebooks | |||
Pilot G2 pen | |||
32 | grit | Angela Lee Duckworth | |
This American Life | Ira Glass | ||
35 | flow | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | |
dumb luck | Marvin Bell | ||
38 | journaling | Sunil Yapa | |
40 | vulnerability | Brené Brown | |
The Boy Who Really, Really Wanted to Have Sex: The Memoir of a Fat Kid | John McNally | ||
Jesus eyes | Kendrick Lamar | ||
42 | Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor Frankl | |
art everywhere | Steven Pinker | ||
43 | Wired for Story | Lisa Cron | |
45 | Last Lecture | Randy Pausch | |
46 | Writers on Writing | ||
46 | Between the Covers | ||
The Moth | |||
Found Magazine | |||
47 | PostSecret | ||
Humans of New York | |||
49 | Writing Down the Bones | Natalie Goldberg | |
50 | Morning Pages | Julia Cameron | |
59 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | |
The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera | ||
Osama | |||
Amy Tan | Amy Tan | ||
Kurt Vonnegut | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
Philip K. Dick | Philip K. Dick | ||
Reading the World (AKA The World Between Two Covers) | Ann Morgan | ||
60 | House of Sand and Fog | Andre Dubus III | |
George Saunders | George Saunders | ||
62 | ideas | Neil Gaiman | |
AquaNotes | |||
66 | notes | Emily Dickinson | |
68 | Morning Pages | Julia Cameron | |
69 | writing by hand | Susan Sontag | |
writing by hand | Truman Capote | ||
writing by hand | Maria Semple | ||
70 | Jennifer Lawrence’s boobs | ||
71 | word lists | Ellen Bass | |
72 | Letter from Birmingham Jail | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
74 | gathering places | Dave Crenshaw | |
finishing | Chuck Wendig | ||
81 | Man Booker Prize | ||
gratitude | Shawn Achor | ||
writing spaces | Ernest Hemingway | ||
Fifty Writing Tools | Roy Peter Clark | ||
Mind the Gap | Ira Glass | ||
confusion | George Saunders | ||
bath desk | Steve Amick | ||
writing on your phone | Fiona Mozley | ||
83 | burn or burn | Nir Eyal | |
85 | challenges | Jerry Seinfeld | |
86 | Huffington Post | ||
88 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Ian Fleming | |
labeling yourself | Ian Fleming | ||
genres | Chris Abani | ||
90 | writing wildly | Roxane Gay | |
Pulitzer Prize | Robert Penn Warren | ||
91 | Suck-O-Meter | George Saunders | |
94 | rewriting | John Irving | |
98 | love | Shakespeare | |
100 | Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen | |
outlining | Jeffery Deaver | ||
101 | headlights method | E. L. Doctorow | |
112 | FocusMate.com | ||
113 | workshop | Chuck Palahniuk | |
114 | workshopping | Octavia E. Butler | |
119 | list of works | Priscilla Long | |
119 | accountant side | Judith Viorst | |
122 | Reverse Dictionary | ||
Idiom Dictionary | |||
RhymeZone | |||
Urban Dictionary | |||
OneLook | |||
WordCounter | |||
Visuwords | |||
Visual Dictionary | |||
The Phrontistery | |||
Grammarly | |||
123 | Purdue University Online Writing Lab | ||
Tumblr | |||
750 Words | |||
Behind the Name | |||
Jobstr | |||
125 | Shel Silverstein | ||
Roald Dahl | |||
R. L. Stine | |||
Reading Like a Writer | Francine Prose | ||
126 | Invisible Monsters | Chuck Palahniuk | |
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | Dave Eggers | ||
reading | Edward P. Jones | ||
reading | Tiffanie DeBartolo | ||
reading | Frank McCourt | ||
127 | Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs | Chuck Klosterman | |
OverDrive | |||
131 | reading | Frank X. Gaspar | |
133 | Pulitzer Prizes | ||
Nobel Prizes in Literature | |||
Pushcart Prize | |||
134 | PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | ||
The Best American series | |||
135 | The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larsson | ||
Harry Potter | J.K. Rowling | ||
A Song of Ice and Fire | George R. R. Martin | ||
genre | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
genre | Henry James | ||
136 | Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | |
Zone One | Colson Whitehead | ||
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award | |||
Caldecott Medal | |||
Newbery Medal | |||
Alex Award | |||
Bram Stoker Award | |||
Edgar Allan Poe Award | |||
Hugo Award | |||
Nebula Award | |||
World Fantasy Award | |||
RITA Award | |||
Spur Award | |||
137 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | |
Magic for Beginners | Kelly Link | ||
The Keep | Jennifer Egan | ||
139 | diversity | Wancy Young Cho | |
140 | Publishers Weekly | ||
privilege | Edward P. Jones | ||
141 | writers of color | Roxane Gay | |
influences | Jamaica Baldwin | ||
142 | literary magazines | Marilyn Hacker | |
143 | Every Writer’s Resource | ||
144 | The New Yorker | ||
Ploughshares | |||
The Paris Review | |||
Tin House | |||
145 | New England Review | ||
Granta | |||
Harper’s Magazine | |||
Kenyon Review | |||
The Georgia Review | |||
The Southern Review | |||
146 | Armchair/Shotgun | ||
147 | Bateau | ||
Boulevard | |||
The Louisville Review | |||
Phoebe | |||
Duende | |||
148 | Spartan | ||
Sixpenny | |||
Bodega | |||
Fields | |||
150 | Family Life | Akhil Sharma | |
East of Eden | John Steinbeck | ||
The Labyrinth of Solitude | Octavio Paz | ||
Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout | ||
Electric Literature | |||
Book Riot | |||
151 | Let the Great World Spin | Colum McCann | |
152 | reading | Kathryn Schulz | |
Evernote | |||
153 | Goodreads | ||
155 | stealing | David Wagoner | |
157 | craft | Homer | |
craft | Aristotle | ||
craft | Rumi | ||
craft | Shakespeare | ||
craft | Miguel de Cervantes | ||
craft | Daniel Defoe | ||
craft | Jane Austen | ||
craft | Charles Dickens | ||
craft | Walt Whitman | ||
craft | Willa Cather | ||
craft | Henry James | ||
craft | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
craft | Walt Disney | ||
craft | Dr. Seuss | ||
craft | James Baldwin | ||
craft | Alice Munro | ||
craft | Alice Walker | ||
craft | Margaret Atwood | ||
craft | Steven Spielberg | ||
craft | Chang-rae Lee | ||
learning to write | Ernest Hemingway | ||
160 | Better You Go Home | Scott Driscoll | |
craft | Jennie Shortridge | ||
plot | George Lucas | ||
161 | Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption AKA Different Seasons | Stephen King | |
Shawshank Redemption | |||
poems | Ellen Bass | ||
167 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway | |
Brokeback Mountain AKA Close Range: Wyoming Stories | Annie Proulx | ||
page-turner | Tom Stoppard | ||
169 | one-way gate | Charles Baxter | |
172 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | |
173 | The Things They Carried | Tim O’Brien | |
East of Eden | John Steinbeck | ||
174 | Funeral Service Times | ||
It’s a Rat’s World | |||
177 | dialogue | Pam Houston | |
Middle Passage | Charles Johnson | ||
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | ||
Middlemarch | George Eliot | ||
To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | ||
179 | American Psycho | Bret Easton Ellis | |
Embers | Sándor Márai | ||
The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
180 | The Virgin Suicides | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
Bright Lights, Big City | Jay McInerney | ||
Self-Help | Lorrie Moore | ||
181 | Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | |
182 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | |
187 | Night Clouds | Amy Lowell | |
188 | Charlotte’s Web | E. B. White | |
Troilus and Cressida | Shakespeare | ||
Sand and Foam | Kahlil Gibran | ||
189 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | |
A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | ||
The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | ||
The Shining | Stephen King | ||
190 | voice | Theo Pauline Nestor | |
192 | artistry | Sarah Kay | |
193 | The Writer’s Portable Mentor | Priscilla Long | |
Story | Robert McKee | ||
A Poetry Handbook | Mary Oliver | ||
Reading Like a Writer | Francine Prose | ||
On Writing | Stephen King | ||
194 | The Liars’ Club | Mary Karr | |
Writing Tools | Roy Peter Clark | ||
Wonderbook | Jeff VanderMeer | ||
The Way of the Writer | Charles Johnson | ||
Naming the World | Bret Anthony Johnston | ||
Burning Down the House | Charles Baxter | ||
The Art of Memoir | Mary Karr | ||
The Situation and the Story | Vivian Gornick | ||
195 | editing | Keats | |
197 | money | Margaret Atwood | |
198 | Hugo House | ||
200 | value | David Sedaris | |
value | Dorianne Laux | ||
value | Sanjiv Bhattacharya | ||
value | Dinty W. Moore | ||
203 | Drive | Daniel H. Pink | |
208 | The Commitments | Roddy Doyle | |
Rent | Jonathan Larson | ||
bartender | Jon Stewart | ||
nurse | Paul Genesse | ||
209 | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | |
day job | Wallace Stevens | ||
day job | Toni Morrison | ||
210 | Salamina, Colombia | ||
Peace Corps | Paul Theroux | ||
Peace Corps | Jia Tolentino | ||
Peace Corps | Bob Shacochis | ||
212 | Lyndon B. Johnson | ||
213 | Writer’s Market | ||
Seinfeld | |||
217 | time | Annie Dillard | |
218 | time management | Dave Crenshaw | |
Hell yeah | Derek Sivers | ||
219 | YNAB | ||
220 | checklists | Atul Gawande | |
222 | Modern Love | ||
223 | Adobe | ||
224 | Excel | ||
225 | Lynda.com | ||
Google Docs | |||
Scrivener | |||
Dragon NaturallySpeaking | |||
227 | |||
Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | ||
229 | |||
Goodreads | |||
Hootsuite | |||
232 | The Best American Travel Writing | ||
233 | meeting fancy writers | George Saunders | |
234 | emotional work | Ijeoma Oluo | |
235 | Poets & Writers | ||
238 | Elliott Bay Book Company | ||
239 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | |
rejection | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
240 | Rejection Wiki | ||
245 | Poets & Writers | ||
Publishers Lunch | |||
247 | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen R. Covey | |
Influence | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
The $100 Startup | Chris Guillebeau | ||
Made to Stick | Chip and Dan Heath | ||
The Total Money Makeover | Dave Ramsey | ||
Mindsharing | Lior Zoref | ||
248 | The Art of Asking | Amanda Palmer | |
The Paradox of Choice | Barry Schwartz | ||
The Compound Effect | Darren Hardy | ||
The Willpower Instinct | Kelly McGonigal | ||
251 | dog's life | Gustave Flaubert | |
253 | community | Seamus Heaney | |
254 | community | Sekou Sundiata | |
255 | Busboys and Poets | ||
Lambda Literary | |||
255 | Saints and Sinners Literary Festival | ||
256 | VONA | ||
Kundiman | |||
The Native American Literature Symposium | |||
Cave Canem | |||
Educe | |||
Gay & Lesbian Review | |||
Mandala Journal | |||
Mosaic | |||
Callaloo | |||
Mizna | |||
Sukoon | |||
Asian American Literary Review | |||
Lantern Review | |||
Cave Canem | Nikky Finney | ||
257 | VIDA | ||
Women Who Submit Lit | |||
Hedgebrook | |||
Disability Visibility Project | |||
Bilingual Review | |||
Latin American Literary Review | |||
Huizache | |||
Palabra | |||
Yellow Medicine Review | |||
Red Ink | |||
Calyx | |||
So to Speak | |||
Torch | |||
A**-Kicking with Limitations | Esmé Weijun Wang | ||
260 | AWP Conference | ||
261 | The Starry Night Retreat | ||
The Key West Literary Seminar | |||
The Northern California Writers’ Retreat | |||
Tin House Summer Workshop | |||
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference | |||
Ragdale | |||
262 | Wellspring House | ||
San Miguel Writers’ Conference | |||
Yaddo | |||
263 | The Call of Solitude | Ester Schaler Buchholz | |
VONA | Yusef Komunyakaa | ||
VONA | Patricia Smith | ||
VONA | Ed Robeson | ||
264 | solitude | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
271 | The Land of Steady Habits | Ted Thompson | |
275 | Behind the Beautiful Forevers | Katherine Boo | |
276 | Freedom | Jonathan Franzen | |
Suite Française | Irène Némirovsky | ||
278 | The Willpower Instinct | Kelly McGonigal | |
280 | meditation | David Lynch | |
meditation | Ruth Ozeki | ||
meditation | Martin Scorsese | ||
meditation | Jerry Seinfeld | ||
281 | meditation | Tara Brach | |
meditation | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
282 | The Happiness Advantage | Shawn Achor | |
283 | On Writing | Stephen King | |
alcohol abuse | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
alcohol abuse | Truman Capote | ||
alcohol abuse | Jack Kerouac | ||
suicide | Ernest Hemingway | ||
suicide | Virginia Woolf | ||
suicide | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
suicide | Sylvia Plath | ||
284 | Rent | Jonathan Larson | |
285 | Radiohead | ||
everything is going to be OK | Ashley C. Ford | ||
love is love is love | Lin- Manuel Miranda | ||
286 | The Artist’s Way | Julia Cameron | |
The War of Art | Steven Pressfield | ||
Mindset | Carol S. Dweck | ||
Art & Fear | David Bayles and Ted Orland | ||
287 | Bird by Bird | Anne Lamott | |
The Creative Habit | Twyla Tharp | ||
Letters to a Young Poet | Rainer Maria Rilke | ||
Catching the Big Fish | David Lynch | ||
A New Earth | Eckhart Tolle | ||
The Gifts of Imperfection | Brené Brown |