 | The Pocket Muse by Monica Wood
Buy new: $10.39 / Used from: $0.01 Inspirational, fun, and funny. You need to have this at your desk when you're faced with a shortage of ideas.
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 | The Pocket Muse Endless Inspiration: New Ideas for Writing (No. 2) by Monica Wood
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $0.95 Sequel to The Pocket Muse.
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 | Lessons from a Lifetime of Writing: A Novelist Looks at His Craft by David Morrell
Buy used from: $13.62 Hilarious at times, serious at others, this is singularly one of the best writing guides I have ever had the luck to come across.
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 | The Writers Idea Book by Jack Heffron
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.75 Inspirational, with great ideas that also help you to do what you're not normally comfortable with -- novelists are encouraged to try screenplays, essayists to try short stories, etc.
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 | The Writer's Idea Workshop: How to Make Your Good Ideas Great by Jack Heffron
Buy used from: $0.01 Sequel to The Writer's Idea Book, and just as good.
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 | How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $4.95 This is great for writers of speculative fiction, though it focuses mainly on science fiction and very little on fantasy.
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 | 2007 Writer's Market
Buy new: $18.77 / Used from: $0.01 You should always have an up-to-date copy of this on your desk.
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 | 2007 Guide to Literary Agents
Buy new: $18.16 / Used from: $0.01 Ditto what I said for writer's Market. This is indispensable for novelists.
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 | You Can Write a Novel by James Smith
Buy used from: $0.01 This is not recommended. Though it does have some practical things you can do, which I liked (such as making Character Bio cards and such) it was far too opinionated and told you exactly how to write your novel (third person limited viewpoint, etc.) Whatever happened to artistic license?
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