Books like Part Wild by Deb Norton

Elizabeth Gilbert shares her personal creative process, guiding readers to embrace curiosity, overcome fear, and unlock hidden inspiration through practical attitudes and habits for a more creative, passionate life.

John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart examines masculinity from a Christian viewpoint, exploring the spiritual and religious dimensions of male life.

Wonderbook is Jeff VanderMeer’s illustrated guide that blends drawings, maps and exercises to help writers craft vivid, imaginative fiction, featuring essays from genre luminaries like Martin, Gaiman and Ford.

A special agent for the Department of the Interior, Ted Systead, investigates a murder in Glacier National Park where a victim was tied to a tree and mauled by a grizzly bear. It was a clear night in Glacier National Park. Ted Systead and his father were camping beneath the rugged peaks and starlit skies when a grizzly bear attacked Ted's father and dragged him to his death. Twenty years later, as Special Agent for the Department of the Interior, Ted gets called back to investigate a crime that mirrors the horror of that night. Except this time, the victim was tied to a tree before the mauling. Residents of the area turn out to be suspicious of outsiders and less than forthcoming. As the case progresses with no clear answers, more than human life is at stake, and Ted's search for the truth ends up leading him deeper into the wilderness than he ever imagined.

*Film Genre for the Screenwriter* is a practical guide in using genre concepts to construct a screenplay. This book includes an examination of the historical origins of specific film genres, defining genre tropes specific to each genre, explaining how and why these genres are used and enjoyed by audiences, and how the screenwriter can use genre knowledge to create a screenplay. Dr Selbo uses examples from popular films, case studies and exercises to support her methods.

A practical manual for unlocking the four facets of the human Self, guiding readers to nurture their innate wholeness, harness the gifts of fragmented subpersonalities, and live a soul‑infused, Earth‑centered life.

A curious young girl learns that the world beyond her sealed city can only be reached with the help of a mysterious, rhyming stranger.

An arrestingly vivid collection of photographs, letters, poetry, fiction, interviews and memoir that celebrates the many sustaining forms of love among lesbians.

Mariah is a woman in a man’s world. Under the pen name Drew Dixon, Chicago native Mariah Lansing writes dime novels detailing hair-raising adventures of heroines in the Wild West. But then she receives a letter from a rancher in the Badlands of North Dakota who takes exception to her meticulous research. When Mariah finds her fiancé in the arms of another woman, she accepts the rancher’s invitation to visit his ranch and leaves Chicago behind. Adam McFarland has a dream—to travel the West and document its people and beautiful landscape with his drawings. If only he weren’t tied down to the family ranch in North Dakota. When dime novelist Drew Dixon makes repeated mistakes about his beloved West, he invites the author to visit his ranch. But the author who shows up isn’t exactly who he was expecting. Will Mariah and Adam be willing to share the secrets they are keeping? Or will they allow false perceptions to continue to hinder the plans God has for them?

What does it take to write an honest memoir? And what happens to us when we embark on that journey? Melanie Brooks sought guidance from the memoirists who most moved her to answer these questions. Called an essential book for creative writers by Poets & Writers, Writing Hard Stories is a unique compilation of authentic stories about the death of a partner, parent, or child; about violence and shunning; and about the process of writing. It will serve as a tool for teachers of writing and give readers an intimate look into the lives of the authors they love. Authors profiled in Writing Hard Stories: Andre Dubus III, Sue William Silverman, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Joan Wickersham, Kyoko Mori, Richard Hoffman, Suzanne Strempek Shea, Abigail Thomas, Monica Wood, Mark Doty, Edwidge Dantict, Marianne Leone, Jerald Walker, Kate Bornstein, Jessica Handler, Richard Blanco, Alysia Abbott, and Kim Stafford

"With his characteristic talent for finding connections between writing and the stuff of our lives, Peter Turchi ventures into new and even more surprising territory. In A Muse and a Maze, Turchi draws out the similarities between writing and puzzle-making and its flip-side, puzzle-solving. As he teases out how mystery lies at the heart of all storytelling, he uncovers the magic-the creation of credible illusion-that writers share with the likes of Houdini and master magicians. In Turchi's associative narrative, we learn about the history of puzzles, their obsessive quality, and that Benjamin Franklin was a devotee of an ancient precursor of sudoku called Magic Squares. Applying this rich backdrop to the requirements of writing, Turchi reveals as much about the human psyche as he does about the literary imagination and the creative process"-- ""Turchi explores how every piece of writing is a kind of puzzle, offers tangrams as a model for presenting complex characters; suggests labyrinths as an alternative to the narrative line, and argues that readers and writers, like puzzle solvers, not only tolerate but find pleasure in difficulty"--Provided by publisher"--