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Books of advice for writers or would-be writers.
How to Write Fiction. Especially the art of short story writing. A practical study of technique. London: Bellairs and Co., 1895. —No author on title page, but attributed by librarian to Sherwin Cody.
The Art of Story-Writing. By J. Berg Esenwein and Mary Davoren Chambers. Springfield (Mass.): The Home Correspondence School, 1913.
Short Stories in the Making. A writers’ and stundents’ introduction to the technique and practical composition of short stories, including an adaptation of the principles of the stage plot to short story writing. By Robert Wilson Neal, A.M. New York: Oxford University Press, American Branch, 1914.
The Technique of Play Writing. By Charlton Andrews. Introduction by J. Berg Esenwein. Springfield (Mass.): The Home Correspondence School, 1915.
Writing and Selling a Play. By Fanny Cannon. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915.
The Technique of Fiction Writing. By Robert Saunders Dowst. Franklin (Ohio): James Knapp Reeve, 1921.
The Elinor Glyn System of Writing. By Elinor Glyn. Auburn (New York): Authors’ Press, 1922. —Printed in four small volumes, but the pages numbered continuously. Appears to be hastily thrown together, but includes much sound advice and a good deal of information about writing scenarios for silent movies, from which any writer can learn something useful about writing action.
Fundamentals of Fiction Writing. By Arthur Sullivant Hoffman. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1922.
Authorship. A guide to literary technique. By a well-known author. London: Leonard Parsons, 1922.
Fiction Writers on Fiction Writing. Advice, opinions and a statement of their own writing methods by more than one hundred authors. Edited, with notes, by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1923.
The Writing of Fiction. By Edith Wharton. New York & London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925.