Recs if you like The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface...

For anyone who has ever thought, "I want to write a book!" This list gathers craft and creativity-focused guides to help you build your skills, refine your process, and keep your imagination alive!

Books of craft, technique, theory, and writing exercises

Nonfiction books on how to write -in all different genres- well. (Not so much about publishing, just writing for the joy of creating).

Books on how to write, for writers and craft nerds. Going beyond your typical Save the Cat. Selected by a developmental editor in the making :)

Books on writing! From poetry to prose, from literary to genre, a collection of writing reference books that give you writing rules and then teach you how to break them. Also includes writing theory!

Books on the craft of writing.

I really personally need this list.

When the blank page feels overwhelming, when the inspiration just won’t come, when the block feels like it’ll last a lifetime, when the story beats are more cacophony than symphony, give one of these reads a try.

Language, rhetoric, character, structure, scene, story, revision, and the thousand small decisions by which a page becomes alive. concerned with the structure, technique, mechanics, process and execution.