Resources for Writers
Reference Books
- CREATING CHARACTERS How To Build Story People, by Dwight V. Swain
- SEE JANE WRITE: A Girl's Guide to Writing Chick Lit, by Sarah Mlynowski
- FLIP DICTIONARY, by Barbara Ann Kipfer, Ph.D.
- WRITING THE BREAKOUT NOVEL, by Donald Maass
- WRITING THE BREAKOUT NOVEL WORKBOOK, by Donald Maass
- THE FIRST FIVE PAGES, BY Noah Lukeman
- ON WRITING by Stephen King
- TELLING LIES FOR FUN AND PROFIT, by Lawrence Block
- SPIDER: SPIN ME A WEB, by Lawrence Block
- THE NOVEL WRITER'S TOOLKIT, by Bob Mayer
- THE LIVES OF THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND, edited by Antonia Fraser
- ETIQUETTE, by Emily Post (1951 Edition)
- WEBSTER'S NEW COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY
- THE SYNONYM FINDER, by J.I. Rodale
- NAMES THROUGH THE AGES, by Theresa Norman
- ENGLISH THROUGH THE AGES, by William Brohaugh
- THE COMPLETE WRITERS GUIDE TO HEROES & HEROINES, by Tami Cowden, Caro LaFever and Sue Viders
- GOAL, MOTIVATION & CONFLICT, The Building Blocks of Good Fiction, by Debra Dixon
- BIRD BY BIRD, by Anne Lamott
- ENGLISH WITH EASE by Deirdre Honnold
- STRUNK AND WHITE'S ELEMENTS OF STYLE
- WRITER'S DIGEST CHARACTER NAMING SOURCEBOOK, by Sherrilyn Kenyon
- SCRABBLE DICTIONARY
- RANDOM HOUSE WORD MENU
- DESCRIPTIONARY: A THEMATIC DICTIONARY, by Marc McCutcheon
- THE LAUREL INSTANT SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS
- THE WRITERS DIGEST SOURCEBOOK FOR BUILDING BELIEVABLE CHARACTERS, by Pam McCutcheon
- THE WRITERS JOURNEY
- FIRST DRAFT IN 30 DAYS
- WRITING FROM THE INSIDE OUT
- STORY STRUCTURE ARCHITECT: A WRITER’S GUIDE TO BUILDING DRAMATIC SITUATIONS AND COMPELLING CHARACTERS
- BLOCKBUSTER PLOTS: PURE AND SIMPLE, by Martha Alderson
- STORY: SUBSTANCE, STRUCTURE, STYLE AND THE PRINCIPLES OF SCREENWRITING
- NO PLOT? NO PROBLEM! A LOW-STRESS, HIGH-VELOCITY GUIDE TO WRITING
A NOVEL IN 30 DAYS, by Chris Baty
- THE ARTIST'S WAY: A SPIRITUAL PATH TO HIGHER CREATIVITY, by
Julia Cameron
- ROMANCE WRITER'S PHRASE BOOK
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