: Re: What are good reads about writing? What do you recommend as reading material to improve writing for beginners? If one recommendation is put per answer and can be voted separately a good list

Orson Scott Card: Characters and Viewpoint
Keith Johnstone: Impro for storytellers (intended for improv actors, but energizing to read and it gives useful tips about what makes a story roll)
Jerome Stern: Making shapely fiction
Paul Matthews: Sing me the creation (exercises intended for poets, but useful for prose writing, too)

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