Books like How I write by Dan Crowe

A concise, step‑by‑step handbook that guides students through the process of writing about literature, blending critical thinking with practical research and paper‑writing strategies for fiction, drama, and poetry.

Tillie Olsen examines how class, gender, race, and cultural climate shape literary voices, focusing on the silences affecting writers—both celebrated and unpublished—especially those caused by motherhood and a hostile literary environment.

In Maplewood, renowned horror writer R.U. Tremblin hosts a short‑story contest whose finalists are invited to spend a night in a haunted house, where terrifying surprises await.

Katherine Anne Porter called courage "the first essential" for a writer. "I have to talk myself into bravery with every sentence," agreed Cynthia Ozick, "sometimes every syllable." E. B. White said he admired anyone who "has the guts to write anything at all."An author who has taught writing for more than thirty years, Ralph Keyes assures readers that anxiety is felt by writers at every level and can be harnessed to produce honest and disciplined work., Keyes offers specifics on how to make the best use of writers' workshops and conferences and how to handle criticism of works in progress; he also exposes the most common "false fear busters" (needing new equipment, a better setting, a new agent). Throughout, he includes the comments of many accomplished writers--Pat Conroy, Amy Tan, Rita Dove, Isabel Allende, and others--on how they transcended their own anxieties to produce great works.

Contains advice to young writers organized around three main questions: Am I talented enough? How should I educate myself? Can I make a living from writing fiction?

Malcolm Bradbury answers a whirlwind of academic and creative requests through a collection of witty, imagined letters that satirize scholarly life, broadcasting, and literary theory.