John Gardner's Art of Fiction and On Becoming a Novelist Ray Bradbury's Zen And the Art of Writing Robert McKee's Story Nancy Kress's Characters, Emotion, and Viewpoint and Beginnings, Middles and Ends Orson Scott Card's Characters & Viewpoint Jack Bickham's Scene and Structure (But keep the salt shaker handy) Jane Yolen's Take Joy Ursula K. LeGuin's Steering The Craft
For advanced work, Donald Maass's Writing the Break-out Novel but that presupposes ability to write a story.
And here are the weird ones. Trust me, they are how-to-write books. C.S. Lewis's Studies in Words Wayne C. Booth's The Rhetoric of Fiction Henning Nelm's Magic and Showmanship
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Date: 2009-11-18 01:54 am (UTC)Ray Bradbury's Zen And the Art of Writing
Robert McKee's Story
Nancy Kress's Characters, Emotion, and Viewpoint and Beginnings, Middles and Ends
Orson Scott Card's Characters & Viewpoint
Jack Bickham's Scene and Structure (But keep the salt shaker handy)
Jane Yolen's Take Joy
Ursula K. LeGuin's Steering The Craft
For advanced work, Donald Maass's Writing the Break-out Novel but that presupposes ability to write a story.
And here are the weird ones. Trust me, they are how-to-write books.
C.S. Lewis's Studies in Words
Wayne C. Booth's The Rhetoric of Fiction
Henning Nelm's Magic and Showmanship