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One of my all time best writer's reference book!
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Recommended Articles by Others
NY Times Best Selling author Lisa Gardner has great
"tricks of the trade" for plotting and writing suspense novels. www.lisagardner.com/tricks/index.htm
Synopsis
writing: check out Lisa Gardner's lecture series on writing that
dreaded synopsis. www.lisagardner.com/tricks/synopsis.htm
Recommended Books for Writers
These books are some of the most oft
recommended and helpful writer's books on the market. I highly
recommend all of them. I've provided the ISBN for each title so
you can order from your favorite book store.
A few of these have been reviewed on my
Blog.
The Writer's
Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, by Christopher Vogler (ISBN:
978-0941188708)
Dynamic Characters,
by Nancy Kress (ISBN: 978-1582973197)
Goal, Motivation & Conflict, by Debra
Dixon (ISBN:
978-0965437103)
Building Better
Plots, by Robert Kernen (ISBN: 978-1582972664)
Techniques of the
Selling Writer, by Dwight V. Swain (ISBN: 978-0806111919)
Word Painting, by
Rebecca McClanahan (ISBN: 978-1582970257)
Self-Editing for
Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print, by Renni Browne & Dave
King (ISBN: 978-0060545697)
The First Five
Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile, by Noah
Lukeman (ISBN: 978-0684857435)
Your Novel Proposal:
From Creation to Contract, by Blythe Camenson and Marshall J. Cook (ISBN:
978-0898798753)
Writing the Fiction Synopsis, by Pam
McCutcheon (ISBN:
0965437116)
Elements of
Style, by Strunk and White (ISBN: 978-0205313426)
Rogets
International Thesaurus, published by Harper Collins (ISBN:
978-0060185756)
Other Notable &
Helpful Books in My Library
Becoming Your Own Critique Partner, by Jane Toombs and Janet Lane Walters
(ISBN: 978-1554102921)
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