Writing and Creativity Books on My Bookshelves

Writer: Landis Wade

Writers must read to be writers. They must read books in their genre and outside their genre to see how better writers do their work. It’s also nice for a writer to have books to refer to on writing, creativity, punctuation, style and legal issues. Here are a few of mine.

Writing and creativity books on my bookshelves

Stephen King: On Writing

Anne Lamott: Bird by Bird

Jessica Brody: Save the Cat Writes a Novel

Annie Dillard: The Writing Life

Lisa Cron: Story Genius

Carrie Knowles: A Self-Guided Workbook and Gentle Tour on Learning How to Write Stories from Start to Finish

Maureen Ryan Griffin: Spinning Words Into Gold

Cathy Pickens: CREATE!

Elizabeth Gilbert: Big Magic

Julia Cameron: “The Artist’s Way”

Twyla Tharp: The Creative Habit

Craig Nova: Brook Trout and the Writing Life

 

Reference books on my bookshelves:

Strunk and White: The Elements of Style

Lynne Truss: Eats, Shoots & Leaves

George Arnold:  Media Writer’s Handbook

Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi: The Emotion Thesaraus

Kenneth P. Norwick: The Legal Guide for Writers, Artists and Other Creative People

 

About the Writer

Landis Wade was a civil trial attorney for 35 years before exiting stage left into a podcast studio in the fall of 2018 to try a more creative life in his 60s. He’s now a recovering trial lawyer, host of Charlotte Readers Podcast, and author of The Christmas Courtroom Trilogy, whose third book in that series—The Christmas Redemption—won the Holiday category of the 12th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards. His forthcoming novel is called Deadly Declarations. 

His short work has appeared in Writersdigest.com, The Charlotte Observer, Flying South, Fiction on the Web, and various anthologies.

Website: landiswade.com