Books on Writing

Over the years I've read a bunch of books on writing (fiction, comics, screenplays). These are the ones I've kept and return to time-to-time:

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• Adventures in the Screen Trade (William Goldman)

• Art of Comic Book Writing (Mark Kneece)

• Art of Fiction (John Gardner)

• Art of Readable Writing (Rudolf Flesch)

• Borzoi Handbook for Writers (Frederick Crews, Sandra Schor)

• Build Better Characters (Eileen Cook)

• Complete Guide of Scriptwriting (J. Michael Straczynski)

• DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics (Dennis O'Neil)

• Dialogue (Robert McKee)

• Elements of Style (William Strunkm E.B. White)

• Elmore Leonard's: 10 Rules for Good Writing (Elmore Leonard)

• Forest for the Trees (Betsy Lerner)

• Gotham Writers' Workshop Writing Fiction

• Grammar Bible (Michael Strumpf, Auriel Douglas)

• Making Comics (Scott McCloud)

• Midnight Disease (Alice W. Flaherty)

• Mind of the Modern Moviemaker (Josh Horowitz)

• On Writing (Stephen King)

• Reinventing Comics (Scott McCloud)

• Screenplay (Syd Field)

• Story (Robert McKee)

• This Year You Write Your Novel (Walter Mosley)

• Understanding Comics (Scott McCloud)

• Words for Pictures (Brian Michael Bendis)

• Writing Fiction (Janet Burroway)

• Writing for Comics (Peter David)

• Writing the Australian Crawl (William Stafford)

• Writing With Style (John R. Trimble)

• Writing Without Teachers (Peter Elbow)