12 Short Stories and Their Making

Paul Mandelbaum

Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers

Carolyn See

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Natalie Goldberg

The Writing Life

Annie Dillard

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Elizabeth Gilbert

Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew

Ursula K. Le Guin

Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

Ray Bradbury

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Anne Lamott

Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Ray Bradbury

The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative

Vivian Gornick

The Art of Memoir

Mary Karr

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel

Jessica Brody

Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

Lisa Cron

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Stephen King