The Best Writing Guide? Reading good Writing, There is something to learning from the best.

 

One of the best ways to write well is to read well. There are good writers, excellent writers, and writers who should be canonized as national treasures. Even international treasures. 

Serious, charming, dangerous, funny. Margaret Atwood can squeeze every feeling known to mankind into a short story. In 39 pages she covers the entire bizarre life from childhood to motherhood of a woman who had a witch for a mother.

You want to write good stories? Read good stories. Atwood is a master of the art. Heck, she's not just an international treasure--she's a goddess.