Books on the craft of writing.
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last updated March, 2026
The 5 Sentence Method: How to Write Your D*mn Book, Already.
Rebecca Thorne
How Dare We! Write: A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse, 2nd Edition
Sherry Quan Lee
Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction
Brenda Miller
Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century
Wayne Miller
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
Jane Alison
The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
Felicia Rose Chavez
Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
Lisa Cron
The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface
Donald Maass
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)
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
Matthew Salesses
The Happy Writer: Get More Ideas, Write More Words, and Find More Joy from First Draft to Publication and Beyond
Marissa Meyer
Immersive Storytelling for Real and Imagined Worlds: A Writer’s Guide
Margaret Kerrison
Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
Jeff VanderMeer
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel
Jessica Brody
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King
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