Favorite Books on Writing

These are just some of my favorite books for writers (the first 20). I hope you’ll check some of them out:

  1. Elements of Style by Strunk & White
  2. Chicago Manual of Style
  3. Merriam Webster’s Dictionary
  4. Roget’s Thesaurus
  5. 45 Master Characters by Victoria Lynn Schmidt
  6. The Writer’s Digest Character-Naming Sourcebook by Sherrilyn Kenyon
  7. The Complete Guide to Heroes and Heroines: Sixteen master Archetypes by Tami Cowden, et al.
  8. The Elephants of Style by Bill Walsh
  9. Save the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody
  10. The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler
  11. GMC: Goal, Motivation, and Conflict by Debra Dixon
  12. The Emotion Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman
  13. Dear Writer, Are You in Burn out? by Becca Syme
  14. Take Joy by Jane Yolen
  15. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
  16. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
  17. Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
  18. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
  19. Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynn Truss
  20. The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed by Karen Elizabeth Gordon

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