 | Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
Buy new: £13.99 / Used from: £9.99 Then one book you need to get the over all story work
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 | How to Write a Novel by John Braine
Buy new: £4.32 / Used from: £4.25 Braine gives you excellent advice on the writing process
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 | Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne
Buy used from: £0.33 The best book on revising your writing after the first draft
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 | Novelist's Essential Guide to Crafting Scenes (Novelists Essentials) by Raymond Obstfeld
Buy new: £4.33 / Used from: £2.27 Tells you how to build scenes with promise and payoff
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 | The Marshall Plan for Novel Writing: A 16-Step Program Guaranteed to Take You from Idea to Completed Manuscript by Evan Marshall
Buy new: £5.30 / Used from: £3.33 Paint-by-the-numbers, but if you can see beyond that, you'll get a lot of usable, pragmatic advice here
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 | Make Your Words Work by Gary Provost
Buy new: £11.30 / Used from: £11.24 A different approach, focusing on the words
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 | Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight V. Swain
Buy new: £9.55 / Used from: £8.50 Tedious to read, but a lot of info not to be found elsewhere
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 | Writing the Breakout Novel: Winning Advice from a Top Agent and His Best-selling Client by Donald Maass
Buy new: £53.49 / Used from: £6.64 Focus on what makes a story stand out from the pack
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