Recs if you like Steering The Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story...

Books of craft, technique, theory, and writing exercises

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.

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.

Because what's better than procrastinating writing by reading what other people have written about writing??

Once, I read a highly acclaimed storytelling book that unsettlingly presented pitching your ideas to strangers in a café as something you absolutely should make a habit of. Yes, the book was written by a white cisgender man. Furthermore, the most recent example of media discussed was a 2002 movie.

So, for the 2026 girlies, here you have storytelling and creative writing books written (or revised) by women AND after 2015. No snooping on strangers, no boobily breasting. I promise✨

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.