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For Further Reading: Recommended Books on Writing

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King (Scribner, 2010 [10th anniversary edition])
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg (Shambhala, 2005 - 2nd edition)
Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story by Ursula K LeGuin (Mariner Books, 2015)
How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy by Orson Scott Card (Writers Digest Books, 2005)
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard (Harper Perennial, 1998)
Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott (Anchor, 1995)
Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity by Ray Bradbury (Joshua Odell Editions, 1994 - 3rd edition)
Elements of Fiction Writing - Beginnings, Middles & Ends by Nancy Kress (Writer's Digest Books, 2011 - 2nd edition)
Write Great Fiction - Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint by Nancy Kress (F&W Media, 2005)
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi (JADD Publishing, 2012) These two also have written The Negative Trait Thesaurus, The Positive Trait Thesaurus, The Rural Setting Thesaurus, and The Urban Setting Thesaurus. Try borrowing from the library before you buy, though: for some writers they may be unnecessary or too simplistic.

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