u/HeartsWillBreak

I am an aspiring author that enjoys writing complex logical scenarios, escape rooms, wit battles, mind games, and puzzles. I need book recommendations that can help me to develop my ability to incorporate these elements into my story or provide me inspiration for coming up with new scenes.

Please suggest anything useful.

Examples of useful books:

A general game theory book that doesn't get too caught up in mathematics, instead focusing on general systems of thought or strategy.

A psychology-focused game theory book that isn't surface level or basic like most popular books which mostly just restate the thoughts I had when I was a child.

A book filled with weird creative ideas (scientific, philosophical, mathematical, game theoretical) that I can integrate into my stories. Anything insightful.

A fiction book that incorporates a lot of game theory and puzzles.

These are only examples.

I'm not picky, so long as it's a useful book for developing my writing skills in the niche I chose (wit, logic, mind games, strategies). You can go beyond the examples I gave if you have any good suggestions. Thanks in advance <3

I downloaded Scrivener and I want to start writing, but I don't want to spend hours tweaking all the settings or searching for themes, so I'll just get one that someone has already made if it looks good.

If possible, can you please suggest some preferences or themes so I can quickly download a .prefs and .stheme file and move on from the customization stage?

I understand we can't all agree on the best settings, so I can just manually change something later if I don't like it, but it'll be faster if I start with something that has better customization and efficiency than the default one. Thank you.