Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success Ready, Set, Novel!: A Workbook Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within This Year You Write Your Novel Letters to a Writer of Color Never Say You Can't Survive Aspects of the Novel
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear Writing Radar: Using Your Journal to Snoop Out and Craft Great Stories The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 P Elements of Fiction Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded): The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
Brave the Page Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping Stranger's Journey: Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book on Novel Writing You'll Ever Need A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life Writing Radar: Using Your Journal to Snoop Out and Craft Great Stories Stranger's Journey: Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo (Novel and Creative Writing Book, National Novel Writing Month Nan Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Our Favorite Writing Books

By NaNoWriMo

By NaNoWriMo

Our Favorite Writing Books

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This list contains some of NaNoWriMo's favorite writing books to help get you inspired for a month of writing!

Writing Radar: Using Your Journal to Snoop Out and Craft Great Stories

Writing Radar: Using Your Journal to Snoop Out and Craft...

Jack Gantos

$9.99
$9.29
Stranger's Journey: Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing

Stranger's Journey: Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in...

David Mura

$29.95
$27.85
Letters to a Writer of Color

Letters to a Writer of Color

$17.00
$15.81
Never Say You Can't Survive

Never Say You Can't Survive

Charlie Jane Anders

$26.99
$25.10
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill

How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill

Jericho Brown and Darlene Taylor

$18.99
$17.66
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a...

George Saunders

$20.00
$18.60
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping

Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and...

Matthew Salesses

$16.95
$15.76
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Anne Lamott

$17.00
$15.81
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Elizabeth Gilbert

$27.00
$25.11
No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days

No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to...

Chris Baty

$14.95
$13.90
Ready, Set, Novel!: A Workbook

Ready, Set, Novel!: A Workbook

Lindsey Grant, Chris Baty, et al.

$18.95
$17.62
Brave the Page

Brave the Page

National Novel Writing Month

$13.99
$13.01
The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story

The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story

Grant Faulkner

$19.95
$18.55
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Natalie Goldberg

$16.95
$15.76
Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo (Novel and Creative Writing Book, National Novel Writing Month Nan

Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your...

Grant Faulkner

$16.95
$15.76
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book on Novel Writing You'll Ever Need

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book on Novel Writing...

Jessica Brody

$15.99
$14.87
Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 P

Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining...

Lisa Cron

$15.99
$14.87
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

John Gardner

$17.00
$15.81
Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story

Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing...

Ursula K. Le Guin

$16.99
$15.80
Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded): The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction

Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded): The Illustrated Guide to...

Jeff VanderMeer

$27.50
$25.58
Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success

Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success

K. M. Weiland

$11.79
Aspects of the Novel

Aspects of the Novel

E. M. Forster

$14.99
$13.94
Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of...

Ted Orland and David Bayles

$12.95
$12.04
From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction

From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction

Robert Olen Butler

$18.00
$16.74
Elements of Fiction

Elements of Fiction

Walter Mosley

$23.00
$21.39