World-Building

8 best books like World-Building (Stephen L. Gillett): Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style, Endymion, Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success, Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen, Find Your Why: A Practical Guide to Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team, Plot Perfect: How to Build Unforgettable Stories Scene by Scene, Write Your Novel From the Middle: A New Approach for Plotters, Pantsers and Everyone in Between, Save the Cat! Writes a Novel

Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

Author	Benjamin Dreyer
ISBN	0812995708

A witty, informative guide to writing "good English" from Random House's longtime copy chief and one of Twitter's leading enforcers of proper grammar--a twenty-first-century Elements of Style.

As authoritative as it is amusing, this book distills everything Benjamin Dreyer has...

Endymion

Author	Dan Simmons
ISBN	0553572946

Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raul and Aenea travel the river Tethys,...

Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success

Author	K.M. Weiland
ISBN	0978924622

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...

Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

Author	Donald Miller
ISBN	0718033329

New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller uses the seven universal elements of powerful stories to teach readers how to dramatically improve how they connect with customers and grow their businesses.

Donald Miller’s StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business...

Find Your Why: A Practical Guide to Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team

Author	Simon Sinek
ISBN	0143111728

The next step for applying the life-changing lessons of the bestseller Start With Why.
 
With Start With Why, Simon Sinek inspired a movement to build a world in which the vast majority of us can feel safe while we are at work and fulfilled when we go home at night. However, many people have had...

Plot Perfect: How to Build Unforgettable Stories Scene by Scene

Author	Paula Munier
ISBN	1599638142

Build an Exceptional Plot, One Scene at a Time!

Think of your favorite story--the one that kept you turning pages late into the night, the one with a plot so compelling, so multilayered, so perfect that you couldn't put it down. How can you make your own plots--in your novels, short stories, memoirs,...

Write Your Novel From the Middle: A New Approach for Plotters, Pantsers and Everyone in Between

Author

James Scott Bell

A powerful secret, and a fresh approach to writing bestselling fiction!

What's the best way to write a "next level" novel? Some writers start at the beginning and let the story unfold without a plan. They are called "pantsers," because they write by the "seat of the pants."

Other writers...

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel

Author

Jessica Brody

SAVE THE CAT!® by Blake Snyder is a popular screenwriting book series and storytelling methodology used by screenwriters, directors, and studio execs across Hollywood. Now, for the first time ever, bestselling author and writing teacher, Jessica Brody, takes the beloved Save the Cat! plotting...