 | No Plot? No Problem!: A High-velocity, Low-stress Way to Write a Novel in 30 Days by Chris Baty
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £4.48 Baty: A fabulous book. This is the one that made me write a novel in a month. Irreverent, hilarious and: it works.
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 | On Writing by Stephen King
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.00 King: Down-to-earth advice, and interesting to see what a bestselling mega-star has to say and how it's not so different from others authors say.
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 | The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £5.47 UEA: Various essays of different quality with some useful nuggets scattered throughout.
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 | Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley
Buy new: £11.89 / Used from: £4.65 Smiley: Fantastic advice and eminently hands-on useful. Half of the book is a plot summary of 100 novels; I didn't find those as good as the 'how to write / revise your novel' chapters.
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 | Writers on Writing
Buy used from: £11.83 Writers on Writing: A great collection of 'how I do it' essays, based on very good interviews with authors at the Adelaide Festival in Australia. Incl. Vikram Seth, Claire Messud and many more.
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 | Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
Buy new: £3.74 / Used from: £6.19 Queneau: The brilliant and hilarious classic of how to write the same inane anecdote in 99 differrent ways. Truly liberating. This made me write a host of experimental stories. Great fun.
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 | Exercices De Style by Queneau
Buy used from: £5.00 Queneau (French): The same book in French so you can savour the brilliance and wit of the original.
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 | How to Write a Novel by John Braine
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.00 Braine: Useful, no-nonsense, hands-on advice on how to write a mainstream novel.
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