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Can anyone recommend some good books ABOUT how to write books themselves? A primer on creative writing is what I'm looking for, I guess.

I've always been better at speaking/writing English than most people (no idiotic grammatical errors at least) but I lack the training of how to write a story properly.

Pic unrelated, but hilarious

>> No.2122966

the poetics by aristotle.

>> No.2122968

I worked with a guy named John Showers.

Oddly, he was probably the dirtiest person at that job. Always greasy hair.

>> No.2122989

Any more?

>> No.2123000

On Writing by Stephen King is amazing.

>> No.2123096

>>2123000
Amazingly worthless as anything except an autobiography.

>> No.2123102

I found these on a few "academic book" torrents.

Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process
http://www.mediafire.com/?yz8i4rfyi11x3ar

The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing
http://www.mediafire.com/?1ezubt22ql3hdpg

The Oxford Essential Guide To Writing
http://www.mediafire.com/?ae8369y0ix0kvvw

>> No.2123117

Channeling and spirit communication is pretty much all you need to be aware of. The rest is superfluous

>> No.2123291

>Cambridge Companion “Writing Game”
>“IN YOUR END IS YOUR BEGINNING”

>Write a 500-word introduction to your own imaginary collected poems or complete stories. Assume your working life has undergone a struggle, from obscurity to hard-won fame. This is your final opportunity to say something wise to your readers and critics. What were your strengths; and why did your audience first ignore your writing, then welcome it? Do you have any literary or personal debts outstanding? Now you can settle them publicly. State what you think the future holds for your work.


Within this pre-emptive epitaph, I will attempt to lay a retrospective foundation for my not yet written works. The intended effect of this contextual framework – an imagined version of my life till then – is to conjure an insight for you into their underlying meaning. When picturing this structure, I ask you to suspend disbelief at how it still stands upright with so many missing doors, floorboards and roof beams. However, feel free to mock my description of what is currently a work in progress; with the help of lies and the stitching of errant thoughts, this facade should hold at least a semblance of structural solidity.
At first my writing was ill received. The advice and comments of colleagues, enemies and friends has clarified the reason for this: As if wrought with an indecisiveness of their value, I had stored all the callow things of youth inside my head in a tank of sewage. Then, upon discovering an interest in the craft of writing, I had recklessly discharged the waste onto New Microsoft Word Documents, which were destroyed just days after their creation.

>and such will be the fate of this one too

>> No.2123386

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_Like_a_Writer

>> No.2123390

For screenplays (and the basics of story in general) story by robert mckee is essential.

>> No.2123398

>>2122968
bender_and_that_is_irony.jpeg

>> No.2123409

Don't bother reading Stunk & White's The Elements of Style.

>> No.2123413

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Camping

WHERE ARE YOU CAMPING HAROLD

>> No.2123435

writing the bones