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10 best books like How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy (Orson Scott Card): On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, The Pocket Muse: Ideas and Inspirations for Writing, Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print, Writing the Breakout Novel, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers, Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence, Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew, Beginnings, Middles & Ends, Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success, Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
AuthorStephen King
ISBN0743455967
"Long live the King" hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King's On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every...
The Pocket Muse: Ideas and Inspirations for Writing
AuthorMonica Wood
ISBN1582973229
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Sparkling with delightful, witty, thought-provoking morsels for today's writers, Monica Wood's dreamy yet realistic writer's companion will encourage your muse to take flight. The stimulating visuals laced throughout the book uniquely capture the...
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
AuthorRenni Browne
ISBN0060545690
"A superb tutorial for anyone wanting to learn from pros how to polish fiction writing with panache."-- Library Journal

Hundreds of books have been written on the art of writing. Here at last is a book by two professional editors to teach writers the techniques of the editing trade that turn...
Writing the Breakout Novel
AuthorDonald Maass
Take your fiction to the next level!

Maybe you're a first-time novelist looking for practical guidance. Maybe you've already been published, but your latest effort is stuck in mid-list limbo. Whatever the case may be, author and literary agent Donald Maass can show you how to take your prose...
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
AuthorJohn Gardner
ISBN0679734031
This classic guide, from the renowned novelist and professor, has helped transform generations of aspiring writers into masterful writers—and will continue to do so for many years to come.  
 
John Gardner was almost as famous as a teacher of creative writing as he was for his own works....
Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
AuthorLisa Cron
ISBN1607742454
This guide reveals how writers can utilize cognitive storytelling strategies to craft stories that ignite readers’ brains and captivate them through each plot element.

  Imagine knowing what the brain craves from every tale it encounters, what fuels the success of any great story,...
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN0933377460
I'm pretty skeptical of books on writing, if only because everyone seems to have written one. And so many of them come at you with flashy promises: "Sell Your Novel In Thirty Days!"

Prior to having read LeGuin's "Steering the Craft," I relied on three books, more or less:

1. Strunk and...
Beginnings, Middles & Ends
AuthorNancy Kress
Get your stories off to a roaring start. Keep them tight and crisp throughout. Conclude them with a wallop.

Is the story or novel you've been carrying around in your head the same one you see on the page? Or does the dialogue suddenly sound flat and predictable? Do the events seem to ramble?

Translating...
Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success
AuthorK.M. Weiland
ISBN0978924622
Writers often look upon outlines with fear and trembling. But when properly understood and correctly wielded, the outline is one of the most powerful weapons in a writer’s arsenal. Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success will:

Help you choose the right type of outline for you
Guide...
Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
AuthorJeff VanderMeer
ISBN1419704427
This all-new definitive guide to writing imaginative fiction takes a completely novel approach and fully exploits the visual nature of fantasy through original drawings, maps, renderings, and exercises to create a spectacularly beautiful and inspiring object. Employing an accessible, example-rich...
How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
AuthorHoward Mittelmark
ISBN0061357952
Many writing books offer sound advice on how to write well. This is not one of those books. On the contrary, this is a collection of terrible, awkward, and laughably unreadable excerpts that will teach you what to avoid—at all costs—if you ever want your novel published.

In How Not to Write...
Scene & Structure
AuthorJack M. Bickham
ISBN0898799066
Craft your fiction with scene-by-scene flow, logic and readability. An imprisoned man receives an unexpected caller, after which "everything changed..."

And the reader is hooked. But whether or not readers will stay on for the entire wild ride will depend on how well the writer structures...
Description
AuthorMonica Wood
ISBN0898799082
Description is most powerful when it's visible, aural, tactile. Make your descriptions fresh and they'll move your story forward, imbue your work with atmosphere, create that tang of feeling that editors cry for and readers crave.

Monica Wood helps you squeeze the greatest flavor from the...
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A
AuthorBen Bova
ISBN0380000385
Eleven Classic Novellas by the most honored authors of science fiction:

This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas between 1929 to 1964 and contains eleven great classics. There is no better anthology that captures the birth of science fiction as a literary...
Plot
AuthorAnsen Dibell
ISBN0898799465
"There are ways to create, fix, steer and discover plots--ways which, over a writing life, you'd eventually puzzle out for yourself," writes Ansen Dibell. "They aren't laws. They're an array of choices, things to try, once you've put a name to the particular problem you're facing now."

That's...
Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0060556528
Gold is the final and crowning achievement of the fifty-year career of science fiction's transcendent genius, the world-famous author who defined the field of science fiction for its practitioners, its millions of readers, and the world at large.

The first section contains stories that...
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