As bestselling author Elizabeth McCracken observes, “craft” books explaining how to write fiction aim to reassure novice ink-slingers that they’re on the right path, that they can crank out a novel resembling established authors’ work. But writers’ paths to stardom will vary, and they are notoriously reluctant to swallow advice. So why not make one’s how-to-write book a DIY project, that is, a book written for the author herself?

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