{"id":47247,"count":14,"description":"While there's an idea that writing is an innate skill, visited on exceptional human beings by a divine muse, the truth is that it involves a lot of practice and hard work. Below, you'll find all our book recommendations relating to writing and how to write. They range from books that\u00a0shed insight on how leading authors think about their own writing process, often including practical tips (e.g. Stephen King recommends not using adverbs unless you really have to) to textbook-like books that you can use to improve your basic grammar and punctuation. Reference books are also important, as it's useful to decide on one authority that you turn to as your style guide. Rules can be subjective and vary significantly between, say, American and British English.\r\n\r\nOne recently published book that tries to spell out what makes the writing of the great Russian short story writers so compelling is <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/swim-in-a-pond-in-the-rain-george-saunders\/\"><em>A Swim in a Pond in the Rain<\/em><\/a> by the Booker Prize-winning novelist George Saunders. The book is based on a class he teaches to aspiring writers at Syracuse University.\u00a0Like many of the inspiring books on these lists, it's hard not to want to try your hand at writing a story of your own after reading it.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/language\/writing-books\/","name":"Writing Books","slug":"writing-books","taxonomy":"category","parent":11189,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/47247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11189"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=47247"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=47247"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=47247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}