Favorite books on the writing craft

[Shannon Chenoweth]

This is a debatable topic, reading books on the craft. However, while I don't believe in set rules for writing, there are good books out there that you can get some good advice from. That said, some of my favorites...
-Wild Mind by Natalie Goldberg
-STORY by Robert McKee
-The Intuitive Writer by Gail Sher
-Creativity by OSHO (not so much a book on just writing, but on creativity, it's great)

[nick maynard]

i LOVE tom lazarus' books on screen writing.

here's his website -
http://www.tomlazarus.com/

here's the google books page for my fave book of his, read some pages!
http://books.google.com/books?isbn=0312269080

[Marvin Capistrano]

On Writing by Stephen King - part memoir, part "how-to". I use how-to looosely, as there is no such thing as a how-to on writing. I love how King uses a lot of his personal experiences to explain the way he created some of his best works. Plus his chapter on his accident he had....wow, how can a person recall a terrifying experience so vividly?

Telling Lies for Fun and Profit by Lawrence Block - Suited more for the prose writer, but can easily be applied to comics. The best thing is you don't have to read this book in the traditional, linear way. Want to know what Block says about dialogue? There's a chapter or two on it! Just jump to those chapters and start reading!

[Shannon Chenoweth]

I've got that book by Block, as it was recommended to me by Brubaker. It's pretty good, I agree. I read it like two years ago. He's got another book on writing as well, Lawrence Block.