An Audiobook, The Creative Thinkers Toolkit
It is a fascinating book that talks about how creative/critical thinking can be taught and gives exercises top help. The author talks about how, if it takes 10,000 hours to master something, 'genius' takes far longer. It took Mozart 16 years before his first masterpiece, though he did start composing at age 5.
Dynamic Story Creation by Maxwell Alexander Drake
It goes in depth about how important it is to have a theme in a story because that is what people connect with. It is the human element that draws people in, it is the hard choices the hero makes. It also explains the Hero's Journey, which helped me understand why so many tv shows become less appealing in season 2 for me.
Better Writing Through Stronger Narrative by Maxwell Alexander Drake
I am only 40 pages into it but it seems like in will be as good and helpful as the prior book. One of the interesting things about it, so many books are written in the same narrative style because it is the way a favorite author wrote.