recommended reading
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Over the years, I've read many craft books on writing. Here are a few I recommend:

• Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking ​by David Bayles and Ted Orland (1993)
  
• About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters & Five Interviews by Samuel R. Delany, 2006
• The Writing Life by Annie Dillard, 2013
• The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri, 1972
• Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg, 1986
• A Passion for Narrative: A Guide to Writing Fiction, by Jack Hodgins, 2001
• The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling by Charles Johnson, 2016
• When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life, Ed. by Dawes Kwame, 2016
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde, 2007
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott, 1995
• A Stranger's Journey: Race, Identity, & Narrative Craft in Writing by David Mura, 2018
• Writing Alone and With Others by Pat Schneider, 2003​
• Elements of Indigenous Style: a guide for writing by and about indigenous peoples by Gregory Younging, 2018