Books on writing

[ravilobo]

I just read,

1. writing down the bones
2. Bird by bird

They are very nice. Any one knows similar books, that can help writing?

[studentcredit]

- Lessons from a Lifetime of Writing: A Novelist Looks at His Craft by David Morrell
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
- Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print by Lawrence Block
- On Writing by Stephen King

[ravilobo]

Thank you; I already have - Bird by bird. Ordered, Stephen King book by Amazon yesterday.

[Etienne]

Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke
American Lessons by Calvino

[ravilobo]

Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke
Looks like an intersting book; amazon has good reviews.



American Lessons by Calvino
Didn't find any info on this one; not available on Amazon.

[Etienne]

Didn't find any info on this one; not available on Amazon.

Ok, I simply translated the title from the French, I checked and the English title is Six Memos for the Next Millenium.

[ravilobo]

Thank you Got it.

[waryan]

by now you've no doubt checked out king's on writing, you may not have to look much further than that and bird by bird in my opinion, but the only other book that ive read and thought unique in its insight would be 13 ways of looking at the novel, a tremendous work on analyzing 100 great novels and going through the process of writing your own.

[ravilobo]

by now you've no doubt checked out king's on writing, you may not have to look much further than that and bird by bird in my opinion, but the only other book that ive read and thought unique in its insight would be 13 ways of looking at the novel, a tremendous work on analyzing 100 great novels and going through the process of writing your own.

I am not a Stephen King fan, though he is a talented writer, I don’t like horror.

Interestingly the movies based on his books, and probably much diluted in the movie version like – Shawshank redemption, Hearts in Atlantis and Green mile are very nice.

Not being a fan, I didn’t write the biography part of the book, I read only the On Writing part. It is very very good.

Thank you for suggesting, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel”; will read it sometime in future.

[waryan]

hey no problem

[Kloster]

There's this book by Norman Mailer, The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing. I actually don't own it (yet), neither have read it, but I hope it helps as suggestion.