Craft
& Technique
20 Master Plots
(And How To Build Them) - Ronald B. Tobias
45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original
Characters - Victoria Schmidt
A Passion for Narrative - Jack Hodgins
Art of Compelling Fiction: How to Write a Page-Turner - Christopher
T. Leland
Art of Fiction - David Lodge
Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers - John
Gardner
Becoming A Writer - Dorothea Brande
Beginnings, Middles & Ends - Nancy Kress
Building Fiction: How to Develop Plot and Structure - Jesse
Lee Kercheval
Characters and Viewpoint - Orson Scott Card
Conflict, Action & Suspense - William Noble
Creating Characters: How to Build Story People - Dwight
V. Swain
Dialogue: Techniques & Exercises for Crafting Effective
Dialogue - Gloria Kempton
Dialogue - Lewis Turco
Dynamic Characters: How to Create Personalities that Keep
Readers Captivated - Nancy Kress
Fiction Writer's Workshop: The Key Elements - Josip Novakovich
Finding Your Writer's Voice: A Guide to Creative Fiction -
Thaisa Frank & Dorothy Wall
First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection
Pile - Noah Lukeman
From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction -
Robert Olen Butler
Guide to Fiction Writing - Phyllis A. Whitney
How Fiction Works: The Last Word on Writing Fiction, from
Basics to the Fine Points - Oakley Hall
Lessons From a Lifetime of Writing: A Novelist Looks at His
Craft - David Morrell
Lie That Tells A Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction - John
Dufresne
Making Shapely Fiction - Jerome Stern
Mastering Point of View: How to Control POV to Create Conflict,
Depth & Suspense - Sherri Szeman
Novelist's Essential Guide to Creating Plot - J. Madison
Davis
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft - Stephen King
Pen Commandments: A Gude for the Beginning Writer - Steven
Frank
Plot & Structure: Techniques & Exercises for Crafting
a Plot that Grips Readers from Start to Finish- James
Scott Bell
Plot - Ansen Dibell
Scene & Structure- Jack M. Bickham
Secret Windows: Essays & Fiction on the Craft of Writing
- Stephen King
So You Want to Write - Marge Piercy & Ira Wood
Spider, Spin Me A Web: A Handbook for Fiction Writers - Lawrence
Block
Starting From Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual
- Rita Mae Brown
Steal This Plot: A Writer's Guide to Story Structure and Plagiarism
- June & William Noble
Steering the Craft: Exercises & Discussions on Story Writing
for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew - Ursula K.
LeGuin
Stein on Writing - Sol Stein
Technique in Fiction - Robie Macauley & George Lanning
Techniques of Fiction Writing: Measure & Madness - Leon
Surmelian
Telling Lies for Fun & Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers
- Lawrence Block
The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life - Noah
Lukeman
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Storytellers &
Screenwriters - Christopher Vogler
Theme & Strategy- Ronald B. Tobias
Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively - Rebecca
McClanahan
Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft - Janet Burroway
Writing Whizardry: 60 Mini-Lessons to Teach Elaboration and
Writer's Craft - Maity Schrecengost |
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Living
and Working in a Literary Life
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on
Writing and Life - Anne Lamott
Biographer's Craft: Practical Advice - Milton Lomask
Creating A Life Worth Living - Carol Lloyd
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women,
Places - Ursula K. LeGuin
Escaping Into The Open: The Art of Writing True - Elizabeth
Berg
Faith of a Writer: Life, Art, Craft - Joyce Carol Oates
For Love & Money: A Writing Life - Jonathan Raban
Listen to Me: Writing Life Into Meaning - Lynn Lauber
Living the Dream: An Outline for a Life in Fiction - Michael
Seidman
Living the Writer's Life: A Complete Self-Help Guide - Eric
Maisel, Ph.D.
Making A Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers
- Carolyn See
Negotiating With The Dead: A Writing on Writing - Margaret
Atwood
On Writing: Advice for Those Who Write to Publish (Or Would
Like To) - George V. Higgins
Seven Steps on the Writer's Path: Journey from Frustration
to Fulfillment - Nancy Pickard & Lynn Lott
Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life -
Terry Brooks
Surviving A Writer's Life - Suzanne Lipsett
The Company of Writers: Fiction Workshops & Thoughts
on the Writing Life - Hilma Wolitzer
The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the
Writing Life - Julia Cameron
Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression
- Eric Maisel, Ph.D
The Writing Life - Annie Dillard
True Subject: Writers on Life & Craft - Best Writer's
Conference Lectures - edited by Kurt Brown
Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life - Natalie Goldberg
Word Work: Surviving and Thriving as a Writer - Bruce
Holland Rogers
Writing For Your Life: A Guide and Companion to the Inner
Worlds - Deena Metzger
Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction, & Other
Dilemmas in the Writer's Life - Bonnie Friedman
Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation
- William Stafford
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For
Inspiration and Creativity-Building
Best Writing on Writing - edited by Jack
Heffron
Beyond the Words: The Three Untapped Sources of Creative
Fulfillment for Writers - Bonnie Goldberg
Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration & Guidance
- Eric Maisel, Ph.D
Dancing in the Dragon's Den: Rekindling the Creative
Fire in Your Shadow - Rosanne Bane
Deep Writing: 7 Principles That Bring Ideas to Life - Eric
Maisel
Finding What You Didn't Lose: Expressing Your Truth &
Creativity Through Poem-Making - John Fox
For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts - Sophy Burnham
Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness - Maureen
Murdock
If You Want to Write: A Book About Art, Independence
and Spirit - Brenda Ueland
Journey Notes: Writing for Recovery and Spiritual Growth
- Richard Solly & Roseann Lloyd
Letters to a Fiction Writer - edited by Frederick Busch
Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest -
Christina Baldwin
Living By Fiction - Annie Dillard
New Diary: How to Use a Journal for Self Guidance and Expanded
Creativity - Tristine Rainer
One to One: Self-Understanding Through Journal Writing
- Christina Baldwin
One Writer's Beginnings - Eudora Welty
Pencil Dancing: New Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit -
Mari Messer
Power to Write: Seven Keys to Discover Your Writer Within
- Caroline Joy Adams
Rules for the Dance: A Handbook For Writing and Reading
Metrical Verse - Mary Oliver
Source Imagery: Releasing the Power of your Creativity -
Sandra G. Shuman, Ph.D.
Telling Time: Angels, Ancestors, & Stories - Essays
on Writing - Nancy Willard
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
- Julia Cameron
Sound of Paper: Starting From Scratch - Julia Cameron
The Wave in the Mind: Talks & Essays on the Writer,
the Reader, and the Imagination - Ursula K. LeGuin
Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer's Craft
- Natalie Goldberg
Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart - Julia
Cameron
Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith & Art
- Madeleine L'Engle
Wrestling with Your Angels: A Spiritual Journey to Great
Writing - Janet O. Hagberg
Write from the Heart: Unleashing the Power of Your Creativity
- Hal Zina Bennett
Writers Dreaming: 26 Writers Talk About Their Dreams &
The Creative Process - Naomi Epel
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within - Natalie
Goldberg
Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays On Creativity - Ray
Bradbury
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Editing,
Rewriting, Revising
Editors on Editing: What Writers Need to Know
About What Editors Do - ed. Gerald Gross
Elephants of Style: A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues
and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English - Bill
Walsh
Getting The Words Right: 39 Ways To Improve Your Writing -
Theodore A. Rees Cheney
Guide to Rapid Revision - Daniel & Paula Perlman
Lapsing Into A Comma - Bill Walsh
Line By Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing - Claire Kehrwald
Cook
Revising Fiction: A Handbook for Writers - David Madden
Revision: A Creative Approach to Writing and Rewriting Fiction
- David Michael Kaplan
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself
into Print - Renni Browne & Dave King
The Elements of Editing: A Modern Guide for Editors &
Journalists - Arthur Plotnik
The Elements of Grammar - Margaret Shertzer
The Elements of Style - William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White
The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers -
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Novel
Writing
A Story is a Promise: Things to Know Before
You Write that Screenplay, Novel or Play - Bill Johnson
Art & Craft of Novel Writing - Oakley Hall
Get That Novel Started (And Keep It Going 'Til You
Finish) - Donna Levin
How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make
& How to Overcome Them - Sol Stein
How To Write a DAMN Good Novel - James N. Frey
On Becoming a Novelist - John Gardner
Marshall Plan for Novel Writing - Evan Marshall
Novel Writer's Toolkit: A Guide to Writing Great Fiction
& Getting It Published - Bob Mayer
The Key: How to Write DAMN Good Fiction Using the Power
of Myth - James N. Frey
The Weekend Novelist - Robert J. Ray
Write Away: One Novelist's Approach to Fiction & The
Writing Life - Elizabeth George
Writer's Digest Handbook of Novel Writing - Ed. of
Writer's Digest
Writing the Breakout Novel - Donald Maass
Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print - Lawrence Block
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Memoir/Creative
Nonfiction
Beyond the Writers' Workshop: New Ways to
Write Creative Nonfiction - Carol Bly
Leaving A Trace: The Art of Transforming a Life into Stories
- Alexandra Johnson
Living to Tell The Tale: A Guide to Writing Memoir - Jane
Taylor McDonnell
Old Friend From Far Away: How To Write a Memoir (AUDIO-TAPE)
- Natalie Goldberg
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to
Writing Nonfiction - William
Zinsser
Pain and Possibility: Writing Your Way Through Personal
Crisis - Gabrielle Rico
The Situation & The Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
- Vivian Gornick
Turning Memories into Memoirs: A Handbook for Writing Lifestories
- Denis Ledoux
Write From Life: Turning Your Personal Experiences into
Compelling Stories - Meg Files
Writing A Woman's Life - Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Writing from Life: Telling Your Soul's Story - Susan
Wittig Albert
Writing from Within: A Guide to Creativity and Life Story
Writing - Bernard Selling
Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art - Judith Barrington
Writing the Sacred Journey: The Art & Practice of Spiritual
Memoir - Elizabeth J. Andrew
Your Life as Story: Discovering "New Autobiography"/Writing
Memoir As Literature - Tristine Rainer
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Short
Story Writing
Art & Craft of the Short Story - Rick
DeMarinis
Creating Short Fiction - Damon Knight
How to Write Short Stories: The Ideal Companion for Aspiring
Fiction Writers - Sharon Sorenson
On Writing Short Stories - ed. Francine Prose
On Writing the Short Story - Hallie Burnett
Story-Crafting - Paul Darcy Boles
The Passionate Accurate Story - Carol Bly
The Story and its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction
- Ann Charters
Writing in General and The Short Story in Particular - L.
Rust Hills
Writing the Short Story: A Hands-On Program - Jack M.
Bickham |
Screenwriting
& Screen/Stageplays
Complete Book of Scriptwriting - J. Michael Straszynski
Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay - Syd
Field
How Not To Write a Screenplay: 101 Common Mistakes - Denny
Martin Flinn
Playwright's Process: Learning Craft from Today's Leading
Dramatists - Buzz McLaughlin
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting- Syd Field
Screenwriter's Bible: Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting,
& Selling Your Script - David Trotter
Screenwriter's Workbook - Syd Field
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and The Principles of
Screenwriting - Robert McKee
Writing Screenplays that Sell - Michael Hauge |
Exercises
and Strategies for Writing
A Writer's Book of Days: A Spirited Companion
& Lively Muse for the Writing Life - Judy Reeves
A Writer's Notebook: Unlocking The Writer Within You - Ralph
Fletcher
Fiction Writer's Brainstormer - James V. Smith, Jr.
Live Writing: Breathing Life Into Your Words - Ralph Fletcher
What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers - Anne
Bernays & Pamela Painter
Writing from the Heart: Inspiration/Exercises for Women Who
Want to Write - Lesléa Newman |
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Books
for Those Who Simply Love WORDS
Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words -
Bill Bryson
Informal English: Puncture Ladies, Egg Harbors, Mississippi
Marbles, & Other Curious Words and Phrases of North
America - Jeffrey Kacirk
The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
- Bill Bryson
The Story of English - McCrum, Cran, & MacNeil
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Writer's
Block
Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear
- Ralph Keyes
On Writer's Block: A New Approach to Creativity - Victoria
Nelson
Outwitting Writer's Block & Other Problems of the Pen
- Jenna Glatzer
UNSTUCK: A Supportive/Practical Guide to Working Through Writer's
Block - Jane Anne Staw
War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner
Creative Battles - Steven Pressfield
Writer's Book of Hope: Getting from Frustration to Publication
- Ralph Keyes
Writing From The Inside Out: Transforming Psychological Blocks
- Dennis Palumbo |
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Crime
Fiction/Mystery Writing
Armed and Dangerous: A Writer's Guide
to Weapons - Michael Newton
Art of the Mystery Story - ed. Howard Haycraft
CODE BLUE: A Writers Guide to Hospitals, including ER,
OR, & ICU - Drs. Keith Wilson & David Page
Criminal Mind: A Writer's Guide to Forensic Psychology -
Katherine Ramsland, Ph.D.
Deadly Doses: A Writer's Guide to Poisons - Serita Deborah
Stevens w/ Anne Klarner
Elements of Mystery Fiction: Writing a Modern Whodunit -
William G. Tapply
Hidden Evidence: 43 Crimes and How Forensic Science Helped
Solve Them - David Owen
How to Write a DAMN Good Mystery: A Practical Step-by-Step
Guide from Inspiration to Finished Manuscript - James
N. Frey
How to Write a Mystery - Larry Beinhart
How to Write KILLER Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery &
Roller Coaster of Suspense - Carolyn Wheat
Howdunit: How Crimes are Committed and Solved - ed.
by John Boertlein
Lights & Sirens: A Writer's Guide to Emergency Rescue
Professions - James & Lois Cowan
Missing Person: A Writer's Guide to Finding the Lost, the
Abducted and the Escaped - Fay Faron
Murder One: A Writer's Guide to Homicide - Mauro V.
Corvasce & Joseph R. Paglino
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction - Patricia Highsmith
Police Procedure & Investigation: A Guide for Writers
- Lee Lofland
Police Procedural: A Writer's Guide to Police and How They
Work - Russell Bintliff
RIP-OFF: A Writer's Guide to Crimes of Deception - Fay
Faron
Scene of the Crime: A Writer's Guide to Crime-Scene Investigations
- Anne Wingate, Ph.D.
Speaking of Murder: Interviews with Masters of Mystery &
Suspense - ed. Gorman & Greenberg
They Wrote the Book: Thirteen Women Mystery Writers Tell
All - ed. Helen Windrath
Urge to Kill: How Police Take Homicide from Case to Court
- Martin Edwards
Weekend Novelist Writes A Mystery - Robert J. Ray &
Jack Remick
Writing Bestselling True Crime and Suspense - Tom Byrnes
Writing the Modern Mystery - Barbara Norville
Writing the Mystery: A Start-to-Finish Guide for Both Novice
& Professional - G. Miki Hayden
Writing the Private Eye Novel: A Handbook by the Private
Eye Writers of America - ed. Robert J. Randisi
Writing the Thriller - T. Macdonald Skillman
You Can Write a Mystery - Gillian Roberts
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Other
Genre Writing
How to Write a Dirty Story: Reading, Writing,
and Publishing Erotica - Susie Bright
How To Write Science Fiction and Fantasy - Orson Scott
Card
Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers - Elizabeth
Benedict
Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Ursula K. LeGuin
Practical Tips for Writing Popular Fiction - Robyn Carr
World-Building: A Guide to Constructing Star Systems
& Life-Supporting Planets - Stephen L. Gillett |
Technical
Aspects of the Writing Business
30 Steps to Becoming A Writer and Getting Published
- Scott Edelstein
Agents, Editors and You - edited by Michelle Howry
Be Your Own Literary Agent - Martin P. Levin
From Pen to Print: The Secrets of Getting Published Successfully
- Ellen M. Kozak
Literary Law Guide for Authors: Copyrights, Trademarks, and
Contracts in Plain Language - Tonya Marie Evans &
Susan Borden Evans
Manuscript Submission - Scott Edelstein
Writing.com: Creative Internet Strategies to Advance your
Writing Career - Moira Anderson Allen
Your Novel Proposal from Creation to Contract: The Complete
Guide to Writing Query Letters, Synopses and The Practical
Writer's Guide: An Easy-Access Source Book - Mary A. DeVries
Proposals for Agents and Editors - Blythe Camenson
& Marshall J. Cook
Writing.com: Creative Internet Strategies to Advance Your
Writing Career - Moira Anderson Allen |
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Post-Publication
Issues
Complete Guide to Book Publicity - Jodee
Blanco
Guerilla Marketing for Writers: 100 Weapons for Selling
Your Work - Levinson, Frishman, & Larsen
Guerilla Saving: Secrets for Keeping Profits in Your Home-Based
Business - J.Levinson & Kathryn Tyler
How to Publish and Promote Online - M.J. Rose &
Angela Adair-Hoy
Intent To Sell: Marketing The Genre Novel - Jeffrey
Marks
Jump Start Your Book Sales: Money-Making Guide etc. - Marilyn
& Tom Ross
Poor Richard's Branding Yourself Online: How to Use the
Internet to Become a Celebrity or Expert in Your Field -
Bob Baker
Publicize Your Book!: An Insider's Guide to Getting Your
Book Attention It Deserves - Jacqueline Deval
Unleash The Artist Within: Four Weeks to Transforming
Your Creative Talents Into More Recognition, More Profit
and More Fun - Bob Baker
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