Book Alchemy

Book Alchemy

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Brilliant writing books (you haven't already read)
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Brilliant writing books (you haven't already read)

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Caroline Donahue
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I want to work on my craft. What should I read?

Can I first say that writers are the best. We have a question or issue, and our first response is to read. This warms my heart tremendously.

When people ask me for craft book recommendations, I assume they’ve already done the rounds with the ones everyone has hard of. You’re reading this post because you have On Writing, Bird by Bird, Writing Down the Bones, and Save the Cat Writes a Novel on your shelf already, correct?

Let’s assume you’ve been at this for a while.

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