Steering The Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Writing Life

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Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

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The Elements of Style

William Strunk Jr.

Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

Lisa Cron

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

William Zinsser

Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative

Jane Alison

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Anne Lamott

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Rick Rubin