We editors have done much research on writing and have come up with this excellent list of craft related books for you. Don’t be intimidated! These books will inspire you to organize, plot, re-plot, dream, and get yourself in that chair to write. So without further ado…
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler
Will Write for Shoes by Cathy Yardley
On Writing by Stephen King
Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose by Constance Hale
Still Writing by Dani Shapiro
Goal, Motivation & Conflict by Debra Dixon
Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder
Writing the Other by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward
Beyond Heaving Bosoms by Sarah Wendell & Candy Tan
STORY by Robert McKee
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, by Alexander Chee
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer
Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay by Syd Field
Writing a Romance Novel for Dummies by Leslie Wainger
The Forest for the Trees by Betsy Lerner
Happy reading, happy writing from Patience and the SYTYCW Team! And if you have your favorite How to Write books for us to read, please leave those titles in the comments below.
