Book Recommendations For Authors.

[DiaperboyEddie12]

Hi there everyone!  I have some book recommendations for all you authors out there.

These books will help you write inspiring books  That get your readers to move forward and keep reading your books.

The first link is to a the book is The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression.

Book: https://amzn.to/38e6rfz

This link is for all the authors other books that help you write your book.

Author Page: https://amzn.to/36HDsRd

I own all but one of the books though I will be buying the newest one soon.

When you click those links and purchase one of those books or multiple books you would be helping Michey. 

[LittleFenny]

After a number of false starts trying to pick up my incomplete story I last updated a few years ago or trying to start something new I started looking at writing books to see if there was anything that would help and there are a few I like.

I recently picked up Plot Gardening by Chris Fox (https://www.amazon.com/Plot-Gardening-Write-Faster-Smarter-ebook/dp/B07BH8VZDV/), which I like because it covers both the traditional Three Act Structure which is focused more on the events that happen as well as the Dan Harmon Story Circle which is a simpler version of The Heroes Journey and is focused on a character.

Another is Novel Writing Prep: A 30-Day Planner That Prepares You To Write 50,000 Words in One Month by Monica Leonelle (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07G9Z7Q9M ). You might guess from the title it's aimed at preparing for NaNoWriMo and it is. But it covers a little bit of everything from coming up with characters to theme and plotting.

Probably the first book I picked up was Take Off Your Pants! Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing by Libbie Hawker (https://www.amazon.com/Take-Off-Your-Pants-Outline-ebook/dp/B00UKC0GHA/) which pitches itself as a plotting book for seat of your pants writers. It talks a bit about character arcs and gives more detail to the classic three act structure than: Things start happening, a big muddy middle you get lost in, and explosions as everything comes to a close.

I'm actually now in a bind where I have about five different stories I want to start on and I keep changing my mind on which to do. I also think the Story Circle has played a role in that since I was pretty easy to just start taking brief seeds of an idea like, "Workplace makes diapers part of the company dress code," and run through the eight steps of the circle to see if I can grow it from a story seed to a story without sitting down and trying to write out the whole story. Which you could do with the old traditional three-act-X-beats plot structure but that never quite clicked with me like the circle. So now I've got a couple different story ideas in my own version of the Diaper Dimension (one with a grade school aged character who wants to wear diapers but has to deal with issues even if they are in a pretty progressive country in a milder Diaper Dimension, another with an In Betweener character born into an Amazon family that finds his bedwetting embarrassing, and another Inbetweener story in which a college student starts wetting the bed from school stress and runs into his old Amazonian babysitter), and a few non-DD stories too.

[DiaperboyEddie12]

On 4/14/2022 at 6:17 PM, LittleFenny said:

After a number of false starts trying to pick up my incomplete story I last updated a few years ago or trying to start something new I started looking at writing books to see if there was anything that would help and there are a few I like.

I recently picked up Plot Gardening by Chris Fox (https://www.amazon.com/Plot-Gardening-Write-Faster-Smarter-ebook/dp/B07BH8VZDV/), which I like because it covers both the traditional Three Act Structure which is focused more on the events that happen as well as the Dan Harmon Story Circle which is a simpler version of The Heroes Journey and is focused on a character.

Another is Novel Writing Prep: A 30-Day Planner That Prepares You To Write 50,000 Words in One Month by Monica Leonelle (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07G9Z7Q9M ). You might guess from the title it's aimed at preparing for NaNoWriMo and it is. But it covers a little bit of everything from coming up with characters to theme and plotting.

Probably the first book I picked up was Take Off Your Pants! Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing by Libbie Hawker (https://www.amazon.com/Take-Off-Your-Pants-Outline-ebook/dp/B00UKC0GHA/) which pitches itself as a plotting book for seat of your pants writers. It talks a bit about character arcs and gives more detail to the classic three act structure than: Things start happening, a big muddy middle you get lost in, and explosions as everything comes to a close.

I'm actually now in a bind where I have about five different stories I want to start on and I keep changing my mind on which to do. I also think the Story Circle has played a role in that since I was pretty easy to just start taking brief seeds of an idea like, "Workplace makes diapers part of the company dress code," and run through the eight steps of the circle to see if I can grow it from a story seed to a story without sitting down and trying to write out the whole story. Which you could do with the old traditional three-act-X-beats plot structure but that never quite clicked with me like the circle. So now I've got a couple different story ideas in my own version of the Diaper Dimension (one with a grade school aged character who wants to wear diapers but has to deal with issues even if they are in a pretty progressive country in a milder Diaper Dimension, another with an In Betweener character born into an Amazon family that finds his bedwetting embarrassing, and another Inbetweener story in which a college student starts wetting the bed from school stress and runs into his old Amazonian babysitter), and a few non-DD stories too.

@LittleFenny I am sorry I have not responded as I did not see the notification. Those books look interesting I will have to check them out.

I just bought this book The Conflict Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Obstacles, Adversaries, and Inner Struggles https://a.co/d/hedyQEq  You can get it from the link above to help Mickey.

It is interesting how conflicts can help with story development.

[DiaperboyEddie12]

I hope this book recommendations are a help to the writers in this forum!

[WBDaddy]

The most important books to read are non-ABDL fiction, preferably the giants of the field.  Why?  Because finding a favorite author is a great way to learn how to write your own stuff.  Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but it also engages you to subconsciously learn style from someone with a well-established style, and along the way pick up the mechanics we all get tripped up on as we're learning how to write a story that clearly communicates the ideas we want to present, because well-established fiction authors already know those mechanics (or at least their editors do).  Aping them helps us get better at fundamentals while also finding our own literary voice. 

 

[Cute_Kitten]

I enjoyed Stephen King's book "On Writing". Lots of good tips about writing in general from one of the legendary masters of horror.