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Earlier today I put out a call on Twitter asking for some recommendations for writing guides that went beyond the basics and toolkit-talk. I was looking for something that went deeper into the craft to help inspire and motivate.
There was a fantastic response with with a large number of brilliant suggestions – it seemed like a good thing to share!
With thanks to the many writers who helped build this list.
Enjoy!
Big Book List on the Craft of Writing
- Into the Woods – John Yorke
- The Art of Fiction – David Lodge
- Art of the Novel – Ed., Nicholas Royle
- Science of Storytelling – Will Storr
- The Weekend Novelist – Robert J. Ray
- Steering the Craft – Ursula Le Guin
- Writing Fiction – Janet Burroway
- Making Comics & Syllabus – Lynda Barry
- Writing a First Novel – Karen Stevens
- On Writing Fiction – David Jauss
- Becoming a Writer – Dorothea Brande
- Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative – Jane Alison
- Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction – Highsmith
- Nail Your Novel – Roz Morris
- Story Genius – Lisa Cron
- The Preparation of the Novel – Barthes
- 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel – Jane Smiley
- Writing Down the Bones – Natalie Goldberg
- The Writing Of the Novel – Irving Wallace
- Save the Cat! – Jessica Brody
- Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott
- The Writing of Fiction – Edith Wharton
- The Writing Book – Kate Grenville
- Emma Darwin’s blog
- Toby Litt’s Blog
- The Paris Review Anthologies
- Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize lecture