Writing Down the Bones
by Natalie Goldberg | 
The Faith of a Writer
by Joyce Carol Oates | 
The Situation and the Story
by Vivian Gornick | 
Nail Your Novel
by Roz Morris | 
This Year You Write Your Novel
by Walter Mosley | 
Outlining Your Novel
by K. M. Weiland | 
Wired for Story
by Lisa Cron | 
You Can Write Children's Books
by Tracey E. Dils |
Dynamic Characters
by Nancy Kress | 
The Writing Life
by Annie Dillard | 
A Novel in a Year
by Louise Doughty | 
Writing the Breakout Novel
by Donald Maass | 
Zen in The Art of Writing
by Ray Bradbury | 
How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method
by Randy Ingermanson | 
Making Shapely Fiction
by Jerome Stern | 
Almost Everything
by Anne Lamott |
Stitches
by Anne Lamott | 
Little Victories
by Jason Gay | 
Some Assembly Required
by Anne Lamott |
Traveling Mercies
by Anne Lamott |
"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.'"