Recs if you like Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping...

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!

Is all this reading inspiring you to write your own book? Go for it! Here are some sources of tips, inspiration, and motivation. Recommendations accepted, especially how-tos for genres not yet covered.

Books by AANHPI authors and/or AANHPI stories. I added Pinoy specifically because while I want all stories for this group I will make a point in finding stories by Filipinos or about Filipino stories. These books aren’t all that are out there. Just what is on my radar.

Books on the craft of writing.

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.