Books on Writing

BWW members share their favorites.

Writing Fiction
Janet Burroway

Immediate Fiction
Jerry Cleaver

The Story Within
Laura Oliver

On Writing
Stephen King

On Writing Well
William Zinsser

The Book on Writing
Paula La Rocque

Inventing the Truth
William Zinsser

The First Five Pages
Noah Lukeman

Stein on Writing
Sol Stein

Writing for Story
John Franklin

The Elements of Style
Strunk & White

How Fiction Works
James Wood

Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott

Making Shapely Fiction
Jerome Stern

From Where You Dream
Robert Olen Butler

Writing Tools
Roy Peter Clark