I'd like to say a quick word in favour of Ursula le Guin's 'Steering the Craft' (which I see you own). I read this just as I was starting creative writing. It contains a number of exercises: it's really worth the effort to treat these seriously.
The obvious problem with nearly all these books is that they're inevitably generalised. I suspect that what each of us really needs is personalized, individualised advice from the right tutor or mentor, not general advice.
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