Recs if you like The Elements of Style...
Reading About Writing
Books of craft, technique, theory, and writing exercises
Novel November
Are you trying to write 50,000 words of a novel in November? Previously known as National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) which has been disbanded, this is a yearly challenge to get though creative brains going! Here are some writing craft books to help you out.
Books about writing
Because what's better than procrastinating writing by reading what other people have written about writing??
on writing, worth reading
craft books or essays on (creative) writing, but I only add books that I have read myself and found to be helpful (ongoing list)
In the comments is a βRead x if you seek yβ guide for all added books, and also the books I chose not to add (and why they might still be worth your time, just not mine)
Write your heart out
Writing Reference
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 about writers and writing
I really personally need this list.
Sonlight Curriculum Books: 12th Grade
Other items used: "Sonlight's College and Career Planning Kit" (includes "Finding the Career that Fits You", "Sheet of Book Labels 600", "Career Planning Guide" and "College Admission and Scholarships"), "Electives 400" (includes "Thinkwell Public Speaking" and "The Non-Designer's Design Book"), "Sheet of Book Labels 400", "Safety Glasses", "Berean Physics Science Supply Kit", "Sonlight Personal Journal", "Thinkwell Economics Internet Course", "Sonlight's Economics Program Instructor's Guide", "Literature 430 Student Guide", "Literature 430 Parent Guide", "History/Bible 420 Student Guide", "History/Bible 420 Parent Guide", "Math-U-See Calculus DVD" and "Binders + Tabs for High School Packages".
TO WRITE IS TO THINK
From creative to academic writing, a collection of books to help in the art of capturing the inexpressibly of being human. Work in progress.
Writer's Starter Kit
The books that helped me understand the writing craft, the writing life, what to expect, and the business side of writing.
Crafting a sentence.
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.
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