Creative Writing: Books on Creative Writing

"One of the few truly helpful books on fiction writing." 'Chicago Tribune Go beyond Stephen King's On Writing to master the fundamentals of great storytelling with this foundational guide that reveals the essential elements of what makes the best fiction.

How Dare We! Write: a multicultural creative writing discourse offers a much needed corrective to the usual dry and uninspired creative writing pedagogy.

Mura argues for a more inclusive and expansive definition of craft, particularly in relationship to race, even as he elucidates timeless rules of narrative construction in fiction and memoir.

In this book, which takes students through the steps of writing a story from beginning to end, they will learn how to gather inspiration and develop a story's characters; visualize and organize the story's plot with a writing map; write a rough draft; and revise their work.

A round-trip ticket to novel-land: Gearing up for your writing adventure!

J.M. Coetzee is one of the most intriguing of authors in all of world literature. Now, in J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing, David Attwell illuminates the extraordinary creative processes behind Coetzee's novels from Dusklands to The Childhood of Jesus.

In Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve, statistician and journalist Ben Blatt brings big data to the literary...
... perspective on your own writing, illuminating both the patterns that hold great prose together and the brilliant flourishes that make it unforgettable.

This wise and entertaining guide by one of the great editors of our time offers timeless tools for making meaning clear. Refresh your writing. Unravel convoluted sales talk written to deceive.

A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better?