Books I checked out of the library and read and enjoyed in 2013:
Lisa Cron’s Wired for Story. Vivian Gornick’s The Situation and the Story. Rober Olen Butler’s From Where You Dream. and Patricia Highsmith’s Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction.
Kind of an end-of-the-year thing. I read lots more books than that, but these stood out. (The below is verbatim from my San Francisco Public Library citations.)
AUTHOR Cron, Lisa.
TITLE Wired for story : the writer’s guide to using brain science to
hook readers from the very first sentence / Lisa Cron.
PUB INFO Berkeley : Ten Speed Press, c2012.
CALL # 808.036 C8811w.
AUTHOR Gornick, Vivian.
TITLE The situation and the story : the art of personal narrative /
Vivian Gornick.
PUB INFO New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.
CALL # 820.9492 G681s.
AUTHOR Butler, Robert Olen.
TITLE From where you dream : the process of writing fiction / Robert
Olen Butler ; edited, with an introduction by Janet Burroway,
PUB INFO New York : Grove Press, c2005.
CALL # 808.3 B9783f.
AUTHOR Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995.
TITLE Plotting and writing suspense fiction / Patricia Highsmith.
PUB INFO New York : St. Martin’s Griffin, [1990], c1983.
CALL # 808.3872 H537p 1990b.
This was also a book I enjoyed but it wasn’t about writing.
