 | The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives by Lajos Egri
Buy new: £5.37 / Used from: £2.37 Egri's classic on character based stories
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 | The Art of Creative Writing by Lajos Egri
Buy used from: £6.26 The other Egri book developing the theme
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 | Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
Kee's classic on story theory
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 | The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile by Noah Lukeman
Buy used from: £6.40 good advice from a literary agent
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 | The Plot Thickens by Noah Lukeman
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £3.50 more good advice from a literary agent
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 | Telling Lies for Fun and Profit by Lawrence Block
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £4.06 Questions and answers from a well-known crime writer
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 | On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner
Buy used from: £1.29 One of few books that deal with the actual writing process. Invaluable.
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 | Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print by Renni Browne
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £5.12 Two editors on the secret of revision. 'All writing is rewriting'
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 | Revision: A Creative Approach to Writing and Rewriting Fiction by David Michael Kaplan
Buy used from: £12.43 A guide to 'remodelling' your fiction
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 | Studies in European Realism by Georg Lukacs
Buy used from: £3.00 Old Georg on Balzac, Stendal, Zola, Tolstoy and Gorky
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 | On Writing by Stephen King
Buy used from: £1.93 Two books in one: about his accident and his craft
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| Timebends: A Life by Arthur Miller
Buy used from: £0.01 Arthur Miller's autobiography
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 | Writing & Other Blood Sports by Charles Willeford
Buy used from: £29.45 Charles Willeford's priceless articles on writers and writing
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 | The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories by Christopher Booker
Buy used from: £10.69 Why we tell stories (apparently)
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 | Henry Miller on Writing (New Directions Paperbook) by H Miller
Buy new: £7.15 / Used from: £5.65 A compendium of Miller's writings on writing. Superb
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| Art of Fiction: Notes of Craft for Young Writers by John Gardner
Buy used from: £1.51 For beginning writers, not just juveniles, again one of the few books to deal with the process
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