My Top Fiction and Memoir Writing Books (Next week, I’ll do poetry)

I’m hoping this is the beginning of a conversation with all of you.  I am going to post it on my blog site, and I hope you will share the books you love on writing, so I can add them to the list.  Feel free to come up with new categories too. 

Editing
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, by Renni Browne and Dave King
A Writer’s Guide to Fiction, by Elizabeth Lyon

Going Deeper
Word Painting – A Guide to Writing More Descriptively, by Rebecca McClanahan
The Writer’s Journey, by Christopher Vogler
On Writing, by Stephen King
Writing the Mind Alive, by Linda Trichter Metcalf and Tobin Simon 

Get Your Juices Going
Writing Down the Bones, by Natalie Goldberg – also check out Wild Mind
What If? by Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter
Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
The 3 a.m. Epiphany, by Brian Kiteley

Overcoming Writer’s Block and Procrastination
Fearless Creating, by Eric Maisel – also check out Deep Writing, A Writer’s Space, and his many, many other books.
The Woman Who Spilled Words All Over Herself, by Rosemary Daniell
The Writer’s Portable Therapist, by Rachel Ballon
Writing Past Dark, by Bonnie Friedman 

Memoir
Naked, Drunk, and Writing, by Adair Lara
The Situation and the Story, by Vivian Gornick
Unreliable Truth, by Maureen Murdock
Living to Tell the Tale, by Jane Taylor McDonnell
Old Friend from Far Away, by Natalie Goldberg

Publishing
Get Known Before the Book Deal, by Christna Katz

Organization (This is not about organizing your writing, but about organizing your life)
Organizing for the Creative Person, by Dorothy Lehmkuhl and Dolores Cotter Lamping

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