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We didn't believe it, either, but you really can learn a lot from reading a book! If you've ever wanted some worthwhile advice from someone other than your high school English teacher, this is the place to look. The authors below are experts in their fields, well-respected and admired by accomplished writers from all over the world, and we're bringing you a list of their most prized and collectively-effective books. (Tried-and-tested by our worthy administrators, no less!)
So what're you waiting for? Learn how to make every word count!
General Prose:
Writing Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techniques (Jim Burke)
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer (Roy Peter Clark)
Writing without Teachers (Peter Elbow)
Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process (Peter Elbow)
On Writing (Stephen King)
Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly (Gail Carson Levine)
A Writer Teachers Writing Revised (Donald Murray)
Write to Learn (Donald Murray)
Clearing the Way: Working with Teenage Writers (Tom Romano)
Crafting Authentic Voice (Tom Romano)
Writing with Passion: Life Stories, Multiple Genres (Tom Romano)
The Elements of Style (William Strunk, Jr., E.B. White, and Roger Angell)
Writing with Style: Conversations on the Art of Writing (John R. Trimble)
Lapsing Into a Comma : A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print--and How to Avoid Them (Bill Walsh)
The Elephants of Style : A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English (Bill Walsh)
Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace (Joseph M. Williams)
On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (William Zinsser)
Grammar:
The New Well Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed (Karen Elizabeth Gordon)
Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose (Constance Hale)
The Holt Handbook (Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell)
Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects (Martha Kolln)
Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English (Patricia T. O'Conner)
Grammatically Correct (Anne Stillman)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves (Lynn Truss)
Revision and Editing:
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print (Renni Browne and Dave King)
The Revision Toolbox: Teaching Techniques That Work (Georgia Heard)
The Craft of Revision (Donald Murray)
Revising Prose (Richard A. Lanham)
Screenwriting:
Screenwriting Updated: New (and Conventional) Ways of Writing for the Screen (Linda Aronson)
Screenwriting for Teens: The 100 Principles of Screenwriting Every Budding Writer Must Know (Christina Hamlett)
The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider's Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers (Karl Iglesias)
Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting (Robert McKee)
Screenwriting for Dummies (Laura Schellhardt)
Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Blake Snyder)
Power Screenwriting: The 12 Stages of Story Development (Michael Chase Walker)
So what're you waiting for? Learn how to make every word count!
Reading Resource List for the Aspiring Writer
General Prose:
Writing Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techniques (Jim Burke)
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer (Roy Peter Clark)
Writing without Teachers (Peter Elbow)
Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process (Peter Elbow)
On Writing (Stephen King)
Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly (Gail Carson Levine)
A Writer Teachers Writing Revised (Donald Murray)
Write to Learn (Donald Murray)
Clearing the Way: Working with Teenage Writers (Tom Romano)
Crafting Authentic Voice (Tom Romano)
Writing with Passion: Life Stories, Multiple Genres (Tom Romano)
The Elements of Style (William Strunk, Jr., E.B. White, and Roger Angell)
Writing with Style: Conversations on the Art of Writing (John R. Trimble)
Lapsing Into a Comma : A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print--and How to Avoid Them (Bill Walsh)
The Elephants of Style : A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English (Bill Walsh)
Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace (Joseph M. Williams)
On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (William Zinsser)
Grammar:
The New Well Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed (Karen Elizabeth Gordon)
Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose (Constance Hale)
The Holt Handbook (Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell)
Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects (Martha Kolln)
Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English (Patricia T. O'Conner)
Grammatically Correct (Anne Stillman)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves (Lynn Truss)
Revision and Editing:
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print (Renni Browne and Dave King)
The Revision Toolbox: Teaching Techniques That Work (Georgia Heard)
The Craft of Revision (Donald Murray)
Revising Prose (Richard A. Lanham)
Screenwriting:
Screenwriting Updated: New (and Conventional) Ways of Writing for the Screen (Linda Aronson)
Screenwriting for Teens: The 100 Principles of Screenwriting Every Budding Writer Must Know (Christina Hamlett)
The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider's Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers (Karl Iglesias)
Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting (Robert McKee)
Screenwriting for Dummies (Laura Schellhardt)
Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Blake Snyder)
Power Screenwriting: The 12 Stages of Story Development (Michael Chase Walker)
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The Fuguist
Jonah hated Mars. He hated everything about it. Every minute he spent there he was plagued by a vague feeling of unrest: Mars was not quite foreign, not quite familiar, an endless mirage or coma dream. Maybe he was dead, and maybe this was purgatory. Sometimes he considered praying at night, asking for forgiveness, just in case, for whatever sin might have banished him there, but then he looked out over the barren, forsaken wasteland and thought his time was much better spent sleeping, or walking.
But he hated how soft the ground was, how little clouds of dust exploded under his soles with every step, and how he could turn around and see his
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Ten Tips for Developing a Writer's Attitude
1. Keep a journal or any form of recording device at all times. You never know when those rare moments of inspiration will strike, so you have to record it in some way before you forget. If you have a journal of some kind, or a binder with paper, you can make character sheets and a plot time-line/tree/map so you know where your story will go. While things may change during the act of writing out the story, the profile and the map will help keep the more important facts straight.
Other than that, it's just a fashion accessory that makes you look like you don't have writers block ninety percent of th
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Haiku Theory Part 1 -2009-
A Lot of Words About A Little Poem
An Introduction to Haiku Structures
Part 1
-Introduction-
A haiku poem cannot be defined according to the number of syllables and lines it contains (nor by the number of syllables in each line). Although I do not wish to go into the reasons why at this point (I will save that for a later discussion) the form of modern English haiku, as Haruo Shirane writes, is a short poem, usually written in one to three lines. (in Gilbert, 2009) At this point our definition sounds very vague. If the number of syllables and lines do not define a haiku poem, then what does? And if a haiku poem is s
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Is there a book you've read that isn't on the list? Feel free to suggest it below! We'll add to this as we can, and we may even find the time to separate fiction writing books from nonfiction writing books.
We'd include a "publishing" section, but we're not sure there's anything better than The Writer's Market and all its related books.
We'd include a "publishing" section, but we're not sure there's anything better than The Writer's Market and all its related books.
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Good list!
I'd suggest Spunk and Bite by Arthur Plotnik.
I'd suggest Spunk and Bite by Arthur Plotnik.