What to Read After Writing the Short Story
Readers who loved Writing the Short Story by Jack M. Bickham keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Writing the Short Story is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Writing the Short Story
Story starters
Writing fiction
Story
Techniques of the Selling Writer
Save the cat!
Writing Fiction for Dummies
Beginnings, middles, and ends
Characters, emotion & viewpoint
Story engineering
Writing Tools
Outlining your novel
Stein on Writing
How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy
Self-editing for fiction writers
Writing the Breakout Novel
No Plot? No Problem!
The writer's journey
Plot & structure
Bird by Bird
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
Old Man’s War
The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
On Writing
The Elements of Style