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A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All-Year Round
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National Bestseller
Inspired by Jami Attenberg’s wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this “encouraging handbook” (Publishers Weekly) features essays on creativity, productivity, and writing from acclaimed authors including Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, Celeste Ng, Meg Wolitzer, and Carmen Maria Machado.
In 2018, novelist Jami Attenberg, faced with a looming deadline, needed writing inspiration. Using a bootcamp model, she and a friend set out to write one thousand words daily for two weeks straight. They opened this practice to Attenberg’s online community and soon hundreds then thousands of people started using the #1000WordsofSummer hashtag to track their work and support one another. What began as a simple challenge between two friends has become a literary movement—write 1,000 words per day without judgement, or bias, or concerns about writer’s block, and see what comes of it.
1000 Words is the book-length extension of this movement. It is about becoming—and staying—motivated, discovering yourself and your creative desires, and approaching your craft from a new direction. It features advice from more than fifty well-known writers, including New York Times bestsellers, Pulitzer Prize winners, and stars of the literary world. Framing these letters are words of wisdom and encouragement, plus specific strategies, from Attenberg on how to carve out a creative path for yourself all year round.
1000 Words is an accessible and motivational craft book that allows you to get a quick and fulfilling hit of inspiration.
Featuring Roxane Gay, Bryan Washington, Susan Orlean, Maris Kreizman, Sara Novic, Rumaan Alam, Lauren Oyler, Emma Straub, Christopher Gonzales, Benjamin Percy, Mira Jacob, Laura van den Berg, Carmen Maria Machado, Courtney Sullivan, Rebecca Carroll, Ada Limon, R.O. Kwon, Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, Elissa Watusha, Alexander Chee, Maggie Shipstead, Deesha Philyaw, Jasmine Guillory, Kristen Arnett, Attica Locke, Megan Abbott, Min Jin Lee, Lauren Groff, Andrew Sean Greer, Camille Dungy, Megan Giddings, Isaac Fitsgerald, Hannah Tinti, Michael H. Weber, Celeste Ng, Elizabeth McCracken, Will Leitch, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Morgan Parker, Kiese Laymon, Melissa Febos, Alissa Nutting, Liz Moore, Laila Lalami, Megan Mayhew Berman, Rebecca Makkai, Meg Wolitzer, Mychal Denzel Smith, Josh Gondelman, and Dantiel W. Moniz.
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He has spent his life helping other people to realize their dreams and experience maximum success. Now comes Zig Ziglar's high-impact work that calls you to the passion, purpose, and practical tools that can ignite the peak performance you long for. In the real-life stories Zig shares, drawn from nearly 50 years as a world-class motivational author, speaker, and businessman, you'll discover how others have risen above fear and failure to embrace the quality of life they were meant to have.
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Zig Never Disappoints!
- By Pacoloco on 09-16-21
By: Zig Ziglar
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Calm Your Thoughts
- Stop Overthinking, Stop Stressing, Stop Spiraling, and Start Living
- By: Nick Trenton
- Narrated by: Russell Newton
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Calm Your Thoughts is a book that understands what you’ve been through, the exhausting situation you’ve put yourself into, and how you lose your mind in the trap of anxiety and stress. Acclaimed author Nick Trenton will walk you through the obstacles with detailed and proven techniques to help you rewire your brain, control your thoughts, and change your mental habits. What’s more, the book will provide scientific approaches to completely change the way you think and feel about yourself by ending the vicious thought patterns.
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love this book
- By Fallon G on 04-01-24
By: Nick Trenton
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Deep Kindness
- A Revolutionary Guide for the Way We Think, Talk, and Act in Kindness
- By: Houston Kraft
- Narrated by: Houston Kraft
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Deep Kindness pairs anecdotes with actions that can make real change in our own lives, the lives of others, and throughout the world. Diving into the types of kindness the world needs most today, this book takes an honest look at the gap between our belief in kindness and our ability to practice it well—and shows us how to put intention into action. Exploring everything from the empathy gap to the skill of emotional regulation, Deep Kindness is perfect for anyone who believes in a kinder world and recognizes that there is a lot of work to do before we achieve it.
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So slow
- By Jordan Stclaire on 11-25-20
By: Houston Kraft
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Tell Me What You Want
- A Therapist and Her Clients Explore Our 12 Deepest Desires
- By: Charlotte Fox Weber
- Narrated by: Charlotte Fox Weber
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Each of us, at certain moments in our lives, can feel lost or confused. We often don’t know how to get what we want, but we share some universal desires: to love and be loved; understanding, power, attention, freedom; to create, to belong, to win, to connect, to control; and we want what we shouldn’t. In each of these twelve chapters, focused on one of these desires, psychotherapist Charlotte Fox Weber takes you behind closed doors of her therapy sessions as she guides clients towards startling insights and profound change.
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Great Listen to Understand Desire
- By TJ on 06-14-23
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Beyond Happiness
- The 6 Secrets of Lifetime Satisfaction
- By: Dr. Jennifer Guttman
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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Are you happy? Nearly half of adults worldwide—40 percent—would say “no”. Even when we possess it, happiness can be a fleeting emotion. It’s natural that we should desire something longer lasting. In Beyond Happiness: The 6 Secrets of Lifetime Satisfaction, psychologist Dr. Jennifer Guttman guides listeners in living a deeply fulfilling life by aiming for a kind of contentment that is more sustainable than happiness.
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Great Read
- By BOBBY YOUNG on 10-11-22
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Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow
- A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories
- By: Steve Almond
- Narrated by: Steve Almond
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Steve Almond shares the insights gleaned from three decades as a beloved teacher and mentor, and a considerably less-beloved literary rabble rouser. His tone is irreverent. His ideas are iconoclastic. And his approach is stubbornly, radically, empathic. The goal is to explode the well-meaning but misguided myths that hold us back from writing our deepest and most honest work, to awaken the joys of storytelling while also confronting how grueling the process can be.
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Magnificent
- By Keith A Hailey on 10-10-24
By: Steve Almond
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The Story Grid
- What Good Editors Know
- By: Shawn Coyne
- Narrated by: Dan Portnoy
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The Story Grid is a tool developed by editor Shawn Coyne to analyze stories and provide helpful editorial comments. It's like a CT Scan that takes a photo of the global story and tells the editor or writer what is working, what is not, and what must be done to make what works better and fix what's not. The Story Grid breaks down the component parts of stories to identify the problems. And finding the problems in a story is almost as difficult as the writing of the story itself (maybe even more difficult).
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good story, but audiobook needs an editor
- By Jeroen de Jong on 12-17-19
By: Shawn Coyne
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Focus on What Matters
- A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
- By: Darius Foroux
- Narrated by: Darius Foroux
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Why is it so hard to live well amidst the chaos and noise? While you might think this is a problem of the modern world, it's a timeless issue.
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Really Enjoyed the book
- By Anonymous User on 07-22-24
By: Darius Foroux
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On Purpose
- The Busy Woman's Guide to an Extraordinary Life of Meaning and Success
- By: Tanya Dalton
- Narrated by: Tanya Dalton
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In her latest book, productivity expert Tanya Dalton helps you to define your purpose and live with intention - even if you feel you are too busy to pursue your big dreams. She offers cutting-edge research and thought-provoking real life stories of women and leads you through innovative, yet deceptively simple exercises.
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Motivating and Humorous
- By Lauren on 11-06-21
By: Tanya Dalton
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Master Mentors
- 30 Transformative Insights from Our Greatest Minds
- By: Scott Jeffrey Miller
- Narrated by: Scott Miller
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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Mining the best and brightest revelations from Franklin Covey’s global podcast, On Leadership with Scott Miller, Scott personally introduces you to 30 Master Mentors, featuring the single most transformative insight from each of them.
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Name dropping, shallow content, false humility
- By Sandy McPherson on 09-13-21
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Tired as F*ck
- Burnout at the Hands of Diet, Self-Help, and Hustle Culture
- By: Caroline Dooner
- Narrated by: Caroline Dooner
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Offering a frank and funny critique of the cultural forces that are driving us mad, Caroline Dooner examines how treating ourselves like never ending self-improvement projects is a recipe for burnout. We have become unknowingly complicit in perpetuating our own exhaustion because we are treating ourselves like machines. But even phones need to f--king recharge.
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Not as advertised
- By Lindsay on 04-06-22
By: Caroline Dooner
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365 Days With Self-Discipline
- 365 Life-Altering Thoughts on Self-Control, Mental Resilience, and Success
- By: Martin Meadows
- Narrated by: John Gagnepain
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
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You need to exhibit self-discipline 365 days in a year. What if you had a companion who would remind you daily to stay disciplined and persevere, even when the going gets tough? 365 Days With Self-Discipline is a practical guidebook for embracing self-discipline in your life. You'll learn how to do this through 365 brief, daily insights from the world's brightest minds, commented upon by best-selling personal development author Martin Meadows.
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Great audiobook/ possibly better than the kindle
- By mk313 on 01-20-18
By: Martin Meadows
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What If It's Wonderful?
- Release Your Fears, Choose Joy, and Find the Courage to Celebrate
- By: Nicole Zasowski
- Narrated by: Nicole Zasowski
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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Author and marriage and family therapist Nicole Zasowski knows what it's like to suffer a blow that makes it difficult to look to the future. Despite the struggle, she found the courage to celebrate, and discovered that God is as present in our joy as He is in our pain. Yes, God's purpose for us is worked out in our struggles. But what if it is also worked out in our dreams and our delighted joy? With a psychological and spiritual case for celebrating, Nicole challenges you to let go of the habit of practicing disappointment and fully embrace joy.
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Hopeful perspective from a Christian Therapist!
- By SeattleEastsideFam on 03-16-22
By: Nicole Zasowski
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A Guide to Confident Living
- By: Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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A Guide to Confident Living shows you how to release your inner powers to achieve confidence and contentment. Using accessible language, Dr. Peale helps you find the way to new energy that will actually revitalize your life.
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Amazing book by one of my favorite authors
- By Edwards Enterprises on 06-12-24
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Leveling Up
- 12 Questions to Elevate Your Personal and Professional Development
- By: Ryan Leak
- Narrated by: Ryan Leak
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Whether you're a leader of ten, a hundred, or many more, there's no one more important to lead than yourself. If you're not leading yourself, why would anyone else want to follow you? Ryan Leak speaks to thousands of leaders every year, and he has learned that the most successful people have taken ownership of their own development—and in order to realize your potential, you need to fully understand yourself.
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Ryan is a master in People!!
- By amy on 03-14-23
By: Ryan Leak
Amazing book on craft!!!
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Get’s your mind right
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I was able to relate to this book. I enjoy writing and expressing my thoughts.
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Great motivation for writers!
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Affirmation Book
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Move forward
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Writers need to read this book!
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The reason why authors should hire professional narrators
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