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Resources - Writing

Writers stick together.  When I find something good, I pay it forward.  After years of research, workshops, classes, chatting with and interviewing other writers, I’ve collected some resources to swear by for both fiction and non-fiction.

www.answers.com

www.ask.com

www.helpareporter.com

www.journalismjobs.com

www.profnet.com - great expert finder from PR newswire

www.m-w.com - online dictionary

www.editorandpublisherjobs.com

www.publishersweekly.com

www.writersdigest.com

www.wrtiersmarket.com

www.freelancewritinggigs.com

www.mywriterscircle.com

www.spj.org

www.mediabistro.com

www.asja.com

www.goodreads.com

www.kidmagwriters.com

www.internetwritingworkshop.org

 

Bird by Bird, Anne Lamont

Making A Literary Life, Carolyn See

Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg

Screenplay, The Foundations of Screenwriting, Syd Field

Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, Janet Burroway, Elizabeth Stuckey-French

Elements of Style, William Strunk, Jr. and E.B White

Chicago Manual of Style

Handbook of Magazine Article Writing, Edited by Michelle Ruberg

By Cunning and Craft, Peter Selgin, (Fiction writing)

The Writer’s Journey, Mythic Structure for Writers, Christopher Vogler

Writing the Breakout Novel, Donald Maass—workbook

Formatting & Submitting Your Manuscript, Cynthia Laufenberg

See Jane Write: A Girl’s Guide to Chick Lit, Sarah Mlynowki and Farrin Jacobs

Writing the Wave, Elizabeth Ayres

Writing Begins with the Breath, Laraine Herring (combines yoga and writing)

 

Creativity/Inspiration:

Screenwriters: The best in the business discuss their craft, Joel Engel

The Artist’s Way, Vein of Gold, Walking in this World, Finding Water, The Right to Write, Julia Cameron

Creative Visualization, Shakti Gawain

The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz

Chicken Soup for the Writer’s Soul, Jane Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen Bud Gardner

The Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukav

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey

 

Work I love for various reasons:

Maya Angelou, Isak Dinesen, Mary Gordon, Alice Hoffman, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rickie Lee Jones, Mary Matalin, Terry McMillan, Peggy Noonan, Joyce Carol Oates, Anna Quindlen, Amy Ray, Anne Rice, Emily Saliers, Alice Sebold, Mary Shelley, Anita Shreve and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Charles Baudelaire, William F. Buckley, Jr., Cameron Crowe, Thomas Hardy, Joshua Henkin, Stephen King, D.H. Lawrence, AA Milne, J. R. Moehringer, Sam Shepard, Dr. Seuss, Bernie Taupin, Walt Whitman, George Will, Oscar Wilde and Tom Wolfe.

2009 Performance: Motherhood story in Manhattan's TA-DA theatre in www.expressing
motherhood.com

 

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