Writing

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For more blog posts related to writing in general, check out the Writing category.

For a few books on writing that I recommend, check out my Goodreads shelves of creative writing books:

Creative writing theory and pedagogy
- Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium
- John Gardener, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
- Edgar Allan Poe, Essays and Reviews
- and others….
General writing advice
- Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
- Stephen King, On Writing
- Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
- and others….
Fiction writing
- Janet Burroway, Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft
- Nicholas Delbanco, The Sincerest Form
- Jesse Lee Kercheval, Building Fiction: How to Develop Plot and Structure
- and others….
Graphic narrative/comics writing
- Mike Chinn and Chris McLoughlin, Create Your Own Graphic Novel Using Digital Techniques
- Will Eisner, Comics and Sequential Art and Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative
- Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (and everything else he’s written!)
- and others….
Nonfiction writing
- Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
- Bill Roorbach, Writing Life Stories
- and others….
Poetry writing
- Alfred Corn, The Poem’s Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody
- Reginald Gibbons, The Poet’s Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art
- and others….
Screenwriting
- Paul Lucey, Story Sense: A Screenwriter’s Guide for Film and Television