This is a summary of the resources I’ve used and that I recommend to anyone who wants to get started writing themselves.

• “Fiction Writing for Dummies“—a book introducing creative writing that gives a good platform to build upon.
• “The Snowflake Method For Designing A Novel“—develop your novel from a summary sentence to the first draft in ten increasingly detailed steps. (Also available as a book).
• Helping Writers Become Authors—articles (actually whole online books) on story structure and character development. These two are also available as books.
•  James Scott Bell—many fantastic books, for instance:  “Write Your Novel From The Middle“, “How to Write Dazzling Dialogue“, “Super Structure“, “Writing Unforgettable Characters“, “Voice” and maybe most of all “Revision & Self-Editing“
• Margie Lawson—affordable guides (and courses) on writing characters’ emotions and editing to strengthen the emotional effect. I’ve so far only read “Empowering Characters’ Emotions“. (It is very impactful, indeed).
• Writers Helping Writers—resources for creative writing on everything from emotional wounds to character traits (positive and negative) to settings to conflicts and much more. Available as books, PDFs, and on their “One Stop for Writers” app.