Must Read Writing Books

James N. Frey: How to Write a Damn Good Novel I & II (everything by Frey)

Jack M. Bickham: Writing and Selling Your Novel (everything by Bickham)

Noah Lukeman: The First Five Pages A Writer’s Guide to Staying out of the Rejection Pile

Meg Wolitzer: Fitzgerald Did It: The Writer’s Guide to Mastering the Screenplay

Natalie Goldberg: Thunder and Lightening

Nancy Kress: Beginnings, Middles and Ends (Elements of Fiction Writing)

Orson Scott Card: Characters and Viewpoint (Elements of Fiction Writing)

Ansen Dibell: Plot (Elements of Fiction Writing)

(all titles in the Elements of Fiction Writing series)