| New York editor Sol Stein dishes nuggets like: "if there is no action, there is no scene" or "Thrust your reader forward to the next chapter but don't take your reader where he wants to go!" or "The secret of good dialogue is to give each character different scripts" ... I could go on and on. The Sol Stein books occupy my bedside table and are well-thumbed and heavily underlined and markered. I refuse to lend them out - you'll just have to buy your own. Stephen King's book on writing is a wonderful account of a writing life and the search for twists that would make a good story. The best advice I got from Scary Steve? It is possible to work out on a treadmill while reading a book. I don't add to this list lightly. I hope these books on the craft of writing will prove as indispensable to you as they are to me. | ||
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| Solutions for Writers: Practical Craft Tech...
by Sol Stein £8.59 | Solutions for Novelists: Secrets of a Maste...
by Sol Stein £8.89 | How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistak...
by Sol Stein |
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| On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen King £5.49 | Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the ...
by Robert McKee £13.47 | From Pitch to Publication: Everything You N...
by Carole Blake £9.90 |
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| The Elements of Style
by William Strunk Jr. £5.24 |
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Really Really Useful Books for Writers
