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Introduce yourself to the SaidIt community
Anyone else is an aspiring writer here?
submitted 3 years ago by Fictionsaur from self.Introductions
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[–]Papitas 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (2 children)
I would like to know, as well.
It's not like it's my dream to be a writer, but my best friend wants to create a manga and he thought I would be a decent writer for it (I don't know where the hell he got that idea xD), so I want to learn how to craft stories so I can help him better.
[–]Fictionsaur[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)
I have recently finished reading Writer's Workshop by Stephen Koch. It was a pretty great read and much more informative than the usual Wattpad guides. The book also gave a list of plenty of great books about crafting fiction:
Poetics - Aristotle
On the Sublime - Longinus
Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
Becoming a Writer - Dorothea Brande
Aspects of the Novel - Edward Morgan Forster
The Craft of Fiction - Percy Lubbock
Writers on Writing: The Paris Review Interviews
Playwrights at Work
Beat Writers at Work
Women Writers at Work
The Writer's Chapbook
Letters to a Fiction Writer - Frederick Busch
On Becoming a Novelist - John Gardner
The Art of Fiction - John Gardner
On Moral Fiction - John Gardner
Zen in the Art of Writing - Ray Bradbury
How to Write a Novel - John Braine
Narrative Design - Madison Smartt Bell
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction - Patricia Highsmith
On Writing: A Memoir of Craft - Stephen King
One Writer's Beginnings - Eudora Welty
The Writing of Fiction - Edith Wharton
Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir - William Zinsser
How to Write - Richard Rhodes
The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers - Betsy Lerne
A Writer's Notebook - Somerset Maugham
If there's a public library near you, you can research for these titles and see if you can find any. Trust me, you won't regret getting invested.
If you're looking for something easier to find and quicker to read, it probably shouldn't hurt to find a Wattpad guide. Although most of the Wattpad guides aren't very informative, they have the superpower of making ideas emerge on your head (just like the above titles do).
EDIT: Sorry, format.
[–]Papitas 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
Nice! Thank you so much!
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[–]Papitas 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun - (2 children)
[–]Fictionsaur[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun - (1 child)
[–]Papitas 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - (0 children)